Civic Engagement Program

This program is a collaboration between the CEL’s experiential learning professionals and faculty, helping classroom instructors identify ways that students can connect service and civic engagement to classroom learning. Building on the college’s longstanding commitment to service and community involvement, the goal of the program is to make these activities academic in nature while contributing to the needs of the community. For more information contact Nathan Jacobi, Assistant Director, Civic Engagement Program.

Minnesota Campus Compact Grant

Enhancing St. Olaf- Community Partnerships:
Strengthening Academic Civic Engagement

St. Olaf College, in collaboration with three community partners (Northfield Community Action Center, HealthFinders Collaborative and Northfield Healthy Community Initiative), has been awarded a Post-Secondary Service-Learning and Campus-Community Collaboration grant (in the amount of $13,430) from the State of Minnesota.  The project, “Enhancing St. Olaf-Community Partnerships: Strengthening Academic Civic Engagement,” will seek to expand academic civic engagement activities to mutually benefit the college and Northfield-area community-based organizations. [Grant Proposal]

The grant project will provide training, support and resources for St. Olaf faculty who are interested in integrating academic civic engagement into their teaching.  Specifically, the project will support as many as eight Civic Engagement Fellows through their participation in the Civic Engagement Summer Institute and follow-up activities during the 2008-09 academic year. 

[Invitation for a Statement of Faculty Interest, 2008 Civic Engagement Summer Institute]