In March, our beloved Briana Bellinger-Dawson, the Coordinator of Student and Community Engagement at the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships, participated in Compact26, the largest national conference dedicated to higher education’s role in strengthening communities and advancing an equitable democracy, which brought together civic engagement professionals, faculty, students, and community partners from across the country.…
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The Return of CSPL120: Civic Engagement Practice
The staff at the Jewett and Allbritton Centers are excited about continuing CSPL120: Civic Engagement Practice! Since the University’s reaffirmation of its commitment to engaging the broader public around some of society’s most critical issues in the 2018 Civic Action Plan, we have offered more programming and opportunities designed to help build student capacity for…
Community Impact: Building Capacity to Support Educational Enrichment and Socioemotional Development
Applications are now open for a new CSPL course for Wesleyan students who work in community service through an educational setting! The course is co-taught by Amy Grillo, Associate Professor of the Practice in Education Studies, and Clifton Watson, Director of the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships. Read more about the course, and sign up…
Service-Learning Courses Fall 2016
There are so many great service-learning classes coming up this spring! Service-learning courses are unique opportunities to integrate what you’re doing in the classroom to service projects in the community. As you can see, any subject or discipline can be applied to engaged service work. Do you love astronomy? You can spend a semester doing public astronomy…