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The Center for Resilient Communities (CRC) is dedicated to advancing community-engaged research and education programs that generate knowledge and empower individuals, with the goal of building more just, equitable, and vibrant communities in West Virginia, the greater Appalachian region, and beyond. Through long-term commitments and cooperative agreements, the CRC collaborates with students, scholars, and community partners, both locally and globally, to foster transformative change in our communities.
In 2026, the CRC will feature the following projects. Collaborators unite to explore pressing problems, conduct research, and generate innovative analyses or solutions to move this work forward. Through this process, community partners, scholars, and students engage in collective study, action, reflection, consultation, and long-term planning that can span years—or even decades.
Our use of the term resilience refers to the capacities of a group of people to maintain and even grow their sense of moral purpose and integrity in the face of constantly changing circumstances. Resilience, as both a concept and lived reality, impresses upon us both the need to acknowledge, learn about and understand the traumatic past and present that people and communities are enduring, while also acknowledging the agency, effort, character and legacies of people who have found the courage to create more just, vibrant, communities in this struggle. Building vibrant communities is the aspirational purpose for which we work.
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You are the change we've been waiting for!
The WVU Center for Resilient Communities invites applications from currently enrolled undergraduate students at West Virginia University for the position of Resilient Communities Research Intern for Spring 2026.
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