公民参与和领导中心
社区是你的教室
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. 教师 draw upon the CCEL's host of community partners to provide students with hands-on projects that supplement their traditional classroom learning.
连接学生和他们的社区
A strong sense of community is one of the key pillars of OG体育平台. Marist students are given the resources to harness their interests and create a significant social impact on the local community and beyond.
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, 我们能够提供社区学习课程, 比如专业写作入门, 互动媒体, 在西班牙语世界交流, 以及《OG体育平台》. 除了培养创新教学, 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 以社区为基础的学习 (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.
社区学习的好处
为学生
- 丰富对课堂材料的理解
- 提高对重要社会问题的认识
- 发展基本技能(如.g. critical thinking, problem-solving) for academic work and professional life
为教师
- 开发新的方法来提高学生的学习质量
- Cultivate new avenues for research and publication via new relationships with community partners
- Network with engaged faculty in other disciplines or institutions
社区伙伴须知
- 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
玛丽和鲁珀特·塔弗暑期实习计划
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, 以及项目期间的校内住宿. 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.
见主任:博士. 梅丽莎Gaeke
梅丽莎一. Gaeke, PhD, is the Director of the 公民参与中心 & 领导 and Senior Professional Lecturer in Political 科学 at OG体育平台. 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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梅丽莎.Gaeke@Marist.edu
(845) 575-2914
公民参与中心 & 数字领导力
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.
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.
的机会
保持联系
We promote over 150 nonprofit internship opportunities in and around Poughkeepsie, as well as gap-year programs such as Teach for America and AmeriCorps.