Center for Community and Civic Engagement

Created in partnership with Mar Valdecantos of Rice County Neighbors United for a class at Carleton College, “HIST-338 Digital History, Public Heritage and Deep Mapping” taught by Austin Mason in the Spring of 2023.

Archaeological Methods students take a field trip to Grand Meadow Chert Quarry

Carletonian story by Ellie Simon about an Fall 2023 ACE class

Fall 2023 CCCE Newsletter is now available

Priority applications due by January 1, 2024 for the ACES Coordinator Position

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