Academic Partnerships

Blue Sky Center has from its outset reached out to regional higher education institutions as a way to bring students to the Cuyama Valley and to see this rural, high desert as a unique place with real people and issues. These experiences have helped to get students “out of the classroom” into a rural environment for experiential and practical applications of learning (“learn by doing”) and to bring forward rural issue-specific educational opportunities.

In the best examples, this work fosters an exchange between our communities, inviting members of our community to take part in expansive creative opportunities and learn alongside visiting faculty and students.

Interested in becoming an academic partner?
Check out our informational guide to propose a program.

“Since launching our academic partner program, we’ve hosted many student groups to join us in finding new approaches to impactful, collaborative, place-based studies.”