The Office of Civic Engagement offers a wide range of opportunities related to:

• Volunteering (or community service): Volunteering means helping others, usually in a very hands-on and personal way, such as cleaning up a school, tutoring children, or assisting a community service organization. It can also mean contributing one's efforts to organizations that seek cures or treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, or heart conditions. We can help you find volunteer programs to support a variety of issues, just click the Volunteer Solutions link at the bottom of the page to get started, or contact us.
  


• Service Learning: The emphasis in service learning is on the reciprocity of the experience, by which all parties learn from and are of service to one another. Student service learning is most often performed as part of an academic course. But our office offers learning opportunities as well, with Reflection Sessions for our work study students and opportunities to post written reflections on Volunteer Solutions.
  
  
• Federal Work Study: The Office of Civic Engagement can connect you with nonprofit and community-based work study opportunities after you have received approval as a work study student from the Office of Financial Aid.
  
  
• Internships: Community-related internships are available in almost every academic major. Check our list for ongoing opportunities, and use a keyword search on Volunteer Solutions to expand or narrow your search.
  
  

Service learning differs from volunteering in two important ways. First, the service activity purposefully engages students with diverse groups in local communities, to promote awareness of the complexity of social problems. The second part is reaching beyond helping individuals to addressing the larger social structures that produce problems such as poverty, domestic violence, illiteracy and other social ills.

We also offer:

• A computer lab where students can research service activities.
• Opportunities to join service and leadership-oriented student groups.
• Assistance to any chartered campus organization wishing to perform a service project.
• Individual assistance with finding service opportunities.
• Federal work study positions with local community agencies.
• Information on internships with the Neighborhood Development Internship Project and many other agencies.
• An extensive database, Volunteer Solutions, where you can research nonprofits and service opportunities, log your volunteer hours, be enrolled in our Rewards Program, and post reflections about your experiences.