ACADEMIC CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (ACE)
Academic civic engagement is an approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to learn in the community and to apply academic knowledge and tools to address community issues as an integrated component of an academic course.
Common approaches to ACE include: service-learning, community-based research, public scholarship and other forms of community-based learning.
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. Specifically, the CEL supports faculty through ACE faculty workshops, consultation on course and project design, community partnership development, in-class presentations or field-trips, coordination of logistics, etc. For more information contact Nathan Jacobi <jacobi>, Associate Director, Civic Engagement.
2009-10 ACE Course Descriptions (tentative)
2008-09 ACE Course Descriptions