Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership

Check out this award for environmental activists and change agents ages 13-22. Deadline to apply is May 13, and the award includes $3K, a documentary film, and a week of leadership events in the San Fran Bay Area. Please share with Wesleyan students who might qualify!    

Clinton Global Initiative University

Apply now to attend CGI U 2013 at Washington University in St. Louis, which will take place from Friday, April 5 – Sunday, April 7, 2013.  CGI U is President Clinton’s initiative to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world.  Each CGI U student must make a Commitment to Action: a…

Civic Engagement and Re-Accreditation

  For the past couple of years, Wesleyan journeyed through a Re-Accreditation process. In my experience, this process has meant that I had to fill out extra paperwork and write several essays on my experiences here, mostly through my major. My professors assured me that although my work would be ungraded, it would indeed be…

Social Media —> Engaging the Digital Age

  This past weekend–while I was driving up Route 3–I tuned to one of those standard “lite radio” stations, only to find that the disc jockey was playing a special “On this day in 2006” program. Always a sucker for nostalgia, I left it on. The songs were a bit of a blast from the…

Welcome to Engage!

For years, the Office of Community Services and student coordinators of volunteer programs have been engaging Wesleyan students in volunteer and work study opportunities in Middletown, and more recently, abroad. Many amazing things have been accomplished by these coordinators and students. This blog will highlight these accomplishments and further spread the word about community engagement…