Posts tagged with “CCCE News” (All posts)
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Finding summer internships can be the most stressful part of spring term, especially when most opportunities involve filing papers and fetching coffee. However, there are ways to make more out of school break. Find out more about the 26 Carleton students who participated in the CCCE’s 2019 community engaged fellowships.
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Find your Focus Area at the 2019 Involvement Fair
19 September 2019Students new to campus will find that the CCCE offers a wide range of volunteer programming within the umbrellas of our four focus areas—Education, Health and Wellbeing, Peace and Conflict, and Environmental Systems. Not sure which of our many programs would match your volunteer interests? We made a chart to help you figure that out!
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When Professor Annette Nierobisz describes her own academic path to applied sociology—her preferred form of civic engagement—it’s always as “rather circuitous.” For many people, their paths to public scholarship are inherently so; there’s no clear way to foster what Imagining America defines as “diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities,” which is part of what makes the field so interesting, innovative and exciting.
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Seth Snyder says farewell to CCCE
5 June 2019Seth Snyder, Associate Director for Student Leadership of CCCE, will step down from his position in mid-June to take up a position as Dean of Students at St. Catherine University.
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CCCE Director Amel Gorani says farewell
5 June 2019Amel Gorani is taking an opportunity to live abroad with her family and will step down as the Director of the CCCE in June 2019.
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Embodying CCCE work in life after Carleton
27 May 2019With the ideal of reciprocity at its core, civic engagement is one of the many directions Carls take their skills in collaboration, both during and after college.
Read about how 2015 alum Vayu Rekdal developed the Young Chefs program and how he has continued this work.
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On College Admissions Practices
22 May 2019The recent college admissions scandal provokes a big question: how do colleges decide who to admit? The “ideals and values that shape” this process ultimately lead to a system that makes higher education inaccessible to many students across the nation.
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Fall 2019 Social Inequality Courses
18 May 2019Every term the Broom Fellow for Public Scholarships produces a list of courses focused on social inequality for the upcoming trimester.
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CCCE Fellows from each focus area reflect on the challenges of promoting student involvement in civic engagement and the rewards of collaborative projects.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Problem-Solving: A Conversation with Kim Smith
30 April 2019When I first heard about Professor Kim Smith’s most recent work with the City of Northfield, it was from a short gym conversation. Intrigued by the lack of publicity, I sat down for a conversation with the Environmental Studies and Political Science professor last term to learn more about how she’s pulling together community and academic resources to solve local environmental problems.