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Student Engagement

Student Engagement

Center for Community Service Initiatives

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Coursework + Collaborative Service + Critical Reflection = Service-Learning

Students: As part of some courses you are taking, you may be required to provide service to the community, most often through community partner organizations. You will reflect on your service experience in the context of the coursework. Service-learning opportunities are currently organized within the modules outlined below.

Click on GIVEPULSE to search for service and engagement opportunities.

An increasing number of courses carry the service-learning designation in the catalog and course schedule. The designation is indicated on your official transcript.

FOOD SECURITY

Support local, national, and international efforts to address food insecurity and end hunger
Help maintain urban gardens
Sort and pack food supplies for distribution

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Tutor elementary and middle-grades students
Mentor community youth
Host enrichment activities for community youth

FAIR FOOD

Support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Student/Farmworker Alliance
Help advance the goals of the Fair Food Program

PEOPLE POWER

Support inter-faith community organizing for Miami-Dade's largest grassroots assembly
Help seek commitments for affordable housing, community identification, and policing from local policymakers

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Contribute to environmental sustainability projects, such as beach clean-ups and community gardening
Advocate environmental health improvement by contributing to environmental justice campaigns and promoting relevant policies

RACIAL JUSTICE

Work with community partners to foster education and dialogue about racial violence and inequity
Engage in community organizing to stop the criminalization of poverty and become an advocate of criminal justice reform (to stop jail expansion, cash bail, and unnecessary arrests)