We partner with community organizations, providing opportunities for students and other university constituencies to engage with the public and social sectors through K-12 schools, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and other community-based groups in Providence, Rhode Island, and beyond. We seek to ensure that, as co-educators and places of crucial learning, our community partners have power to shape/inform Center programming and derive benefit from their engagement with the Center.

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We catalyze learning for students, facilitating and supporting courses, fellowships, and other opportunities in which they can develop the civic knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to create a more socially just and sustainable world. Students engage in short- and longer-term commitments, supporting direct service or capacity-building projects, conducting community-engaged research, enrolling in community-engaged courses, advocating for policy changes, exploring socially innovative solutions, partnering with faculty on curriculum design and implementation, organizing and advising their peers, and more.

We build capacity, visibility, and support among faculty, graduate students, and staff interested in community-engaged teaching and research. We accomplish this through working groups and communities of practice, consultations on topics ranging from good pedagogical practices, to making connections to local partners, to funding, and through programming collaborations with other units on campus.