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公民参与中心 & 领导 (CCEL) connects students to their community by providing volunteer opportunities, 实习, 学生就业, 以及社区学习课程. Students contribute to local initiatives and they develop crucial skills that will serve them well beyond the college classroom. Faculty draw upon the CCEL's host of community partners to provide students with hands-on projects that supplement their traditional classroom learning.

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公民参与中心 & 领导力将学术界与社会行动联系起来. 通过与全校教职工合作, we are able to offer Community Based Learning classes, such as Introduction to Professional Writing, 互动媒体, 在西班牙语世界交流, 以及《bet亚洲365欢迎投注》. In addition to fostering innovative teaching, we pride ourselves on exposing students to vital community organizations and new career paths.

以社区为基础的学习

公民参与中心 & 领导 promotes the principle that civic engagement and Community Based Learning (CBL) empower students to connect their academic work to their wider interests. Participation in CBL provides students with the problem-solving tools and confidence needed to generate positive change in their communities. Janet Eyler和Dwight E. Giles (1999), CBL提供 "...a form of experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection as students.” Combining academic coursework with hands-on activities and deep reflection has been shown to achieve real outcomes for the community and deeper understanding and skills for students. These experiences enhance awareness and, in turn, lead to more effective social change.

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为学生

  • Enrich the understanding of classroom material
  • Increase the awareness of important social problems or issues
  • 发展基本技能(如.g. critical thinking, problem-solving) for academic work and professional life
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为教师

  • Develop new ways to generate higher-quality student learning
  • Cultivate new avenues for research and publication via new relationships with community partners
  • Network with engaged faculty in other disciplines or institutions
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  • Achieve organizational goals by tapping into valuable human resources
  • Increase the collective impact made in addressing critical social problems
  • Build partnerships with new stakeholders and attract new volunteers

The Marie and Rupert Tarver Summer Internship Program

每年夏天, a cohort of highly motivated Marist students remain on campus to participate in the Marie and Rupert Tarver Summer Internship program, which enables undergraduates to work on a community improvement project in collaboration with a local non-profit organization. 参与者获得可观的津贴, 学费减免, and on-campus housing for the duration of the program. 作为项目的一个组成部分, interns affiliate with an approved nonprofit organization in the Hudson River Valley and complete agreed-upon goals and objectives during the summer term. Tarver Interns work with faculty and their nonprofit partner to design their internship project and identify the key issues that their work will address.

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见主任:博士. 梅丽莎Gaeke

梅丽莎一. Gaeke, Ph值.D. is the Director of the 公民参与中心 & 领导 and Senior Professional Lecturer in Political Science at bet亚洲365欢迎投注. She holds a doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

Her interests include engaging students in activities that teach them about civic engagement and working with nonprofit organizations to build their capacity to access resources and connect with stakeholders. She has worked to create and support civic engagement programs for more than 20 years.

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课后社区参与

Seventy-three percent of students who participate in CCEL courses plan to engage with the community even when the course ends.

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基于社区的学习认可

Eighty-one percent of students feel that the 以社区为基础的学习 component helps them to better understand the required class lectures and readings.

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保持联系

We promote over 150 non-profit internship opportunities in and around Poughkeepsie, as well as gap-year programs such as Teach for America and AmeriCorps.

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