What is the Office of Civic Engagement?

The Office of Civic Engagement has had a long-standing commitment and role of creating actively engaged life-long citizens. It has established over 60 community partnerships with local community organizations and mobilizes approximately 2,000 students a year contributing more than 30,000 hours of service to the community.

Office of Civic Engagement Mission Statement

The mission of the Office of Civic Engagement is to educate students to be civically aware, skilled and committed to act for the public good.

The Office of Civic Engagement accomplishes this mission through curricular and co-curricular activities that create opportunities for students to find a meaningful role in their local, regional, national and international communities.

In addition to helping students find community organizations at which to volunteer or engage in community-based learning, our office also:

Assists UMD faculty create service-learning courses or retrofit their existing coursework to incorporate community-based learning
Disseminates information about opportunities at community organizations
Plans, partners, and hosts events such as volunteer activities, conferences, webinars, special speakers, community involvement fairs and book groups
Awards mini-grants and engaged department grants to individuals or departments involved in community-based learning

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Did you know?

Registration is open for the Lake Superior Service-Learning Regional Conference. Registration deadline is March 1. Go here for more conference info.

The OCE mini-grant RFPs have been released. Deadline to submit a proposal is March 5. Go here for more mini-grant info.

The 2nd annual CHAMP Day of Service is scheduled for Saturday, April 21. More information is coming soon.

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