The Office of Community Engagement encourages students to complete their scholarly work in ways that offer a benefit to the community. We support several forms of academic integration that match real-world experiences with a chance to acquire academic expertise:

• Community-Based Research is a productive partnership between students and community agencies in which a community need for information is met by students, who in turn are learning research-gathering and interpretation methods.
• Service-Learning is a teaching method which meets the academic goals of a credit-bearing course by engaging students to apply theories and skills to meet actual needs within the community. Students learn a course’s goals through their service.
• Internships and Practica are pre-professional experiences in a student's field of study which typically culminate with projects or research papers regarding the student’s experiences.

To start your own academic engagement project or participate in an existing program, contact Laura Eppinger.

Past ACE Projects:

• Anthropology 216: Archaeological Methods
  Community-based research (CBR), practicum
• Anthropology 115: Museum Studies
  Service-learning, internship
• Art 375: Art and Gender
  Service-learning
• Biology 247 General Ecology
  Field studies
• Biology 300: Biology of Cancer
  Service-learning, CBR
• Business 310: Nonprofit Organization Management
  Service-learning, CBR
• Classics 300 : Roman Coins and Roman Emperors
  Service-learning
• Communications 440: Applied Communication
  Service-learning
• Education 421, 431, 441, 451, 461: Student Teaching
  Practicum, service-learning
• French 175: First Year Studies: Sex, Gender & Culture
  Field studies
• History 220: Non-conformity and Deviance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  Service-learning
• Interdisciplinary Studies 150: Fisk
  Practicum, field studies
• Interdisciplinary Studies 212: Journalism II
  Internship, practicum
• Leadership Studies 100: Introduction to Leadership Studies; Leadership and the Human Spirit
  Service-learning
• Leadership Studies 264: Team Learning Workshop
  Service-learning
• Philosophy 120: Introduction to Philosophy
  Service-lLearning
• Philosophy 281: Human Nature
  Service-learning
• Psychology 300.02: Positive Psychology
  Service-lLearning
• Psychology 313: Social Psychology
  Field studies, CBR
• Psychology 326: Theories of Motivation Service-learning
• Spanish 451: Applied Spanish
  Service-learning
• Religion 122: Introduction to Christian Scriptures
  Service-learning
• Religion 231: History of Christian Theology and Ethics
  Service-learning, field studies