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Welcome to the Center for Civic Engagement!

Defining Civic Engagement

Civic engagement has been defined as actions constructed to identify and address issues of public concern.  The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, through the activities organized by the Center for Civic Engagement, aspires to meet the challenge of providing active student learning opportunities while meeting a community need.  Service learning is a methodology that melds community service with classroom learning goals.  Service learning augments the acquisition of skills and knowledge through experiential applications that meet the needs of a community and simultaneously fosters civic responsibility.

What's New

The Center for Civic Engagement has launched its new website!  Please take some time to explore the site.  If you have any suggestions or recommendations, please let us know what you think via email!

Mark your calendars!  The Fourth Annual Civic Engagement Summit will be held on Thursday, April 26 from 8:30-1:30pm at Woodland Commons.  The keynote speakers will be Robert L. Caret, President of the University of Massachusetts and Shirley Sagawa, first Chief Operating and Policy Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service.  For more information, please visit the Summit's page.

Please join us on February 2nd from 12:30-2pm at the Law School's Moot Courtroom for the next Public Interest Fellows Panel Discussion.  This month we will be joined by several clerk magistrates of the Massachusetts Court system, who will discuss their careers in public interest law.

For more information or to view other events, please check out our calendar! 

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