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Community-Engaged Learning

Community-Engaged Learning Resources for COVID-19

 
The Office of Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL) collaborates with students, faculty, and community organizations to develop projects that promote sustained, mutually beneficial collaborations emphasizing student learning and community benefits.

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Community-Engaged Learning

Sarah Brackmann

Senior Director of Integrative and Community-Engaged Learning

Community-Engaged Learning

Sarah Brackmann

Senior Director of Integrative and Community-Engaged Learning

Community-Engaged Learning
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Featured Alumni Stories

Kadidiatou (Kadi) Magassa ’13

The PC Thing to Do

For almost six decades now, Southwestern alumni have helped build community across the world through volunteer service in the Peace Corps.

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Megan Schubert Leese ’01

Looking out for the Community

Inspired by a service trip to Honduras during one eye-opening spring break, Megan Schubert Leese ’01 now champions public health.

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Community-Engaged Learning News

The Williamson County Institute for Excellence in Nonprofits, Inc.

Southwestern University and the Williamson County Institute for Excellence in Nonprofits Formalize Partnership

A new memorandum of understanding outlines opportunities for collaboration that will support students while building the capacity of area nonprofits.

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Spring Breakaway

Spring Breakaway 2018

Three groups of SU students traveled to communities across the country to engage in direct service and learn about complex social justice issues.

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Ellie Crowley, '20 at the Up to Us Conference

It’s Up to Us

As the campus leader of the Southwestern University Up to Us team, I had the opportunity to travel to Oakland to participate in the winter training session. Going into the weekend, I knew the purpose of the session was to prepare each team leader, but I did not know how they would achieve this. 

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