CCCE Student Fellows work independently and collaboratively with each other, other campus organizations, and community partners. All fellows work weekly office hours in the CCCE, attend regular fellows staff meetings, and contribute to the community environment in the CCCE.
Students who are approved campus drivers and with Spanish, Somali, or other language skills are strongly encouraged to apply.
Fellows in the CCCE directly and indirectly support:
- Reciprocal and ethical partnerships with off-campus communities by building, developing, and maintaining mutually beneficial collaborations
- The work of program leads and volunteers for programs in their respective issue areas, helping to maintain high quality programming for multiple off-campus communities
- Off-campus work at program sites, mainly in Northfield and Faribault
- Events and initiatives on campus and in the community, ranging from speakers to film showings, from community conversations to elected official candidate forums
All fellows are part of one (or sometimes two) of these cohorts:
- Education Equity focuses on learning about and addressing the root causes of education inequities in public education as well as implementing quality and transformative education programs for k-12 students in Northfield and Faribault.
- Food and Environmental Justice supports programs that engage students in environmental issues tied to community wellbeing and sustainability, recognizing that housing, food production, waste, energy, and food insecurity are all intertwined and envisioning a world of equitable environmental access and responsible stewardship.
- Health and Belonging connects students with community partners to improve the community’s health, they run the CCCE mentoring and health related programs.
- Peace, Conflict, and Democracy works to engage the Carleton community around elections, voting, and other ways of participating in democracy. This cohort also hosts and facilitates several “community conversations” throughout the year where students engage in dialogue on current local and global issues that impact Carleton students.
- Academic Civic Engagement supports the work of ACE courses, scholarship, and student reflection by promoting ACE courses to other students via postering and tabling; leading the planning and execution of the winter ACE student showcase; documenting and telling the story of ACE through written interviews and photographs at ACE events, maintaining connections between ACE courses and other co-curricular fellows’ cohorts and partners, and helping with ACE fleet vehicle transportation as an occasional driver.
