Center for Community and Civic Engagement

CCCE Student Fellow Featured in Local Feast Magazine

Young Chefs at Carleton College

Run by CCCE, the Young Chefs program teaches middle school students how to cook

Community Based Work Study at Sharing our Roots Farm

Community Conversations

Toward a Shared Understanding: Practicing Dialogue through Community Conversations

The Center for Community and Civic Engagement

CCCE (pronounced “trip-see-ee”) is a hub for: 

• Place-based, experiential learning beyond campus
• Reciprocal community-campus partnerships
• Publicly-engaged scholarship, leadership, and action

We support Academic Civic Engagement courses, student-led community initiatives, fellowships, volunteer opportunities, community-based work study jobs, and more. Our student-led programs focus on the following themes:

• Food and Environmental Justice
• Educational Equity
• Health and Belonging
• Peace, Conflict & Democracy

Learning Objectives

• Understand issues in their real world complexity
• Recognize and honor different forms of knowledge that may reside in/with community partners
• Deepen awareness of one’s positionality in civic engagement efforts, such as gender, race, and socioeconomic background.
• Take academic knowledge and do something with it beyond the classroom while learning in the process
• Develop leadership skills
• Nurture a commitment to life-long civic engagement