Community Engagement Scholars and Faculty

A resource for faculty and departmental community engagement activities

The Office of Service-Learning facilitates a program in which departments can be chosen to host an undergraduate or graduate student leader who will assist with:

• Community partnerships,
• Community-based research projects,
• Service-learning courses,
• and other community-engagement efforts.

The students are compensated through the AmeriCorps program and receive bi-weekly training through the Office of Service-Learning. Hosting a CE Scholar can complement your existing service-learning program or help you establish new community engagement initiatives.

Your only responsibilities are to

• Provide a challenging and meaningful community engagement opportunity for your scholar
• Describe the type of service your scholar will perform (the Action Plan) and the level of supervision they will receive.
• Assign a faculty supervisor to design and monitor the CE scholars Action Plan.
• Recruit and select the scholar
• Provide adequate workspace for your scholar, which can be shared with others

All AmeriCorps paperwork, training, and monitoring is completed by the Office of Service-Learning.

Read a description of one scholar's year of service.

Apply to host a CE Scholar

We are no longer accepting departmental applications to host a Community Engagement Scholar for the 2013-2014 Academic Year.

The timeline for the 2014-2015 application process is as follows: