Office of Community-Engaged Learning

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UVM Civil Engineering Students' Innovative Solar Partnership

UVM Professor Launches Spanish Radio Show with Student Podcasts

UVM’s Leahy Institute Awards Six Grants to Support Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities in Vermont

Real Impact: These UVM students are taking action and leaving a mark on their community

UVM’s Leahy Institute Announces New Grant Program to Support Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities

Changes to Community-Engaged Course Designation

More News From CELO

Biodiversity Law Course Broadens Student Horizons and Hones Writing Skills

The Rubenstein School curriculum is designed to ensure that each student receives a thoughtful and well-rounded education. That education includes...

UVM Libraries' Map Collection Unlocks Stories of Place and Purpose

On the ground floor of Howe Library, the Howe Library Map Room houses one of UVM’s most versatile collections—used by students, faculty, and...

Rising to the Challenge: UVM Prepares the Next Generation of Climate Leaders

As the number of extreme weather events increases, sea levels continue to rise, and food safety is at risk, climate-related research, education, and...

UVM Forestry Team Wins National Quiz Bowl Championship at SAF Conference

University of Vermont Forestry students proved their academic prowess and field expertise last week by winning the Society of American Foresters’...

CDAE Faculty Member’s Film Featured at the Vermont International Film Festival

The University of Vermont’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics is thrilled to share that faculty member Myles David Jewell...

WFB Alumni Demonstrate Strength and Variability of Program in their Career Outcomes

Rubenstein School academic programs are beloved for both their breadth and their depth: students can focus on many varied interests or narrow in on...

Want to Make an Impact? Go to UVM, Says Princeton Review

For the second year in a row, University of Vermont has earned the number one slot on the Princeton Review’s “Best Schools for Making an...

Capstone Service-Learning Course Connects Students with Community Partners to Tackle Local Issues

From their first week to their final semester, undergraduate students in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at UVM experience...

Pollinators, Precipitation, and Purpose: Dexter's Path to Self-Discovery

In April, as a joyously hectic semester was coming to a close, Dexter Mayo ’25, a Natural Resources major and Patrick Leahy Honors College student,...

Water Workforce Development: A Critical Need and Partnership

Safe drinking water and wastewater treatment are critical services, and it is important that communities have continued access to reliable water...

Thomas DeSisto Receives the Highest UVM Award Given to Faculty Teaching Community-Engaged Learning Courses

Thomas DeSisto is the recipient of the 2025 Lynne Bond Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award given by UVM’s Community Engagement Learning...

Meet the CNHS Class of 2025

The CNHS Class of 2025 has experienced a truly transformative journey. Throughout their college years, these students navigated remote learning, the...

A Strong (and Healthy) Finish

"...Integrative Health has lasting positive impacts on human and planetary health, which I think is incredibly important for creating a sustainable...

Showcasing Excellence in Community-Engaged Learning

Faculty and students from across UVM gathered on May 1 to celebrate the University’s statewide impact through community-engaged learning courses.

CDAE Provides a Well-Rounded Education for Alumni Change-Makers

UVM’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE), has empowered thousands of students with interdisciplinary education...

Exploring Her Passion to Serve

Entering UVM, Isabel Wolhandler knew that she wanted to do something positive for the world.“As soon as I took my first HDFS class, I felt an...

Student-Led Partnership Connects Local Youth with UVM Dairy Farm

Annie Boudreau’s love of animals and farming began at an early age.“I started raising chickens when I was in elementary school, and then I...

Mindful Outreach

Psychology students at UVM are making a difference in the lives of people dealing with a range of mental-health concerns, from teens in crisis to...

Overcoming Adversity to Serve Young Children and Their Families

“I had kind of a hard time in school when I was younger,” recalls UVM senior Charlie Meecham. “It was really challenging socially.”But in...

Board of Trustees Hears Center for Community News’s National Strategy for Bolstering Vital Coverage

Director Richard Watts and Managing Director Meg Little Reilly of the Center for Community News (CCN) presented their strategy for growing and...

First-Year CEMS Students Showcase Innovation and Teamwork in Civic Learning Projects

An impressive display of STEM innovation filled the Davis Center’s Grand Maple ballroom this week as 80 teams of CEMS students presented...

After the Floods

Water will continue to shape—and reshape—Vermont communities. Sometimes it will come in a deluge, pummeling agricultural fields and swamping...

Working to Restore a Brighter Future

For students interested in landing a plum environment-focused job after graduation, having some professional experience on their resumé can go a...

Announcing CELO Planetary Health Funding Grant Recipients

Among the aims of UVM's burgeoning Planetary Health Initiative is to increase students’ curricular and co-curricular access to sustainability and...

Catamount Emergency Care Celebrates Installation of 100th Lifesaving Station on Campus

Have you spotted the new Catamount Emergency Care (Cat ECare) stations around campus? As part of the University's commitment to keeping our community...

UVM Students Provide Critical Election Day Support

With the 2024 presidential election nearly upon us, the stakes have never been higher. And while the national contest is getting the most airtime,...

A Summer of Service-Learning in the Northeast Kingdom

Members of the 2024 Northeast Kingdom VT Community Resilience Summer Internship Program spent the summer months serving local organizations across...

What is Planetary Health?

The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is teeming with critters, plants, fungi, protists and...

Service-Learning Intern Captures Valuable Footage of Animal Behavior on Camera

A Vermont Fish & Wildlife intern, participating in a designated service-learning internship, used game cameras to capture and study wildlife...

Service-Learning Students Make a Difference at Crooked Creek

Student's work in Bev Wemple's service-learning course is recognized in this story about an innovative stream restoration project at Crooked Creek in...

UVM Student Advocates for Better Programs to Connect Incarcerated Parents with their Children

Harriet Langburd, a student in Alice Fothergill's Sociology Internship - a designated service-learning class - wrote to the VT Digger to discuss...

Pursuing Their Dreams and Fulfilling Our Mission

The CESS Class of 2024 includes 200 undergraduate students and 138 graduate students across a range of academic pursuits. We are thrilled to...

Applied Knowledge: Catamount seniors showcase their service-learning achievements

As students and soon-to-be graduates prepare for life beyond campus comforts, UVM’s Community-Engaged Learning Office (CELO)wanted to showcase...

The Inaugural Showcase for Community-Engaged Learning

Students gathered in the Davis Center's Fireside Lounge on April 30th to share their final projects from their service-learning courses. These...

2024 CELO Awards Honor Dedication to Service Learning

On April 30, 2024, the Office of Community-Engaged Learning (CELO) held their annual awards ceremonyrecognizing the faculty members, students, and...

UVM Students Support Community through the Consumer Assistance Program

“The most beautiful thing about the Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) is there's not one specific takeaway that a student is going to get,”...

How CDAE Senior Lecturer Kelly Hamshaw Engages Students in Research to Build Resilient Communities

Senior Lecturer Kelly Hamshaw’s office is everything you’d expect a busy PhD candidate and professor’s office to embody. The big window lets in...

Community Building In and Out of the Classroom

Juliana Ward ’24, an Environmental Studies (ENVS) major and economics minor, is a member of the second to last cohort of students to earn their...

Navigating Transportation Issues Through Environmental and Resource Planning

Cities and towns of every size are grappling with challenges facing their transportation plans and infrastructure—fortunately, Rubenstein School...

A World of Experience

In UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), more and more faculty members view their classrooms as being without walls—or borders. They see...

UVM Partnership Program Grows Into Service Learning Course

UVM has fostered a partnership with the Center for Aging through the internship program Grand Friends. This programbridges the gap between students...

The Class That Changed My Life

There are moments in everyone’s life that have the potential to change everything. For the UVM College of Arts and Sciences alums (and one...

Service-Learning Professor Trish O'Kane Featured On Podcast by the American Birding Association

In a conversation with podcast host Nate Swick, UVM Professor Trish O'Kane discussed her unique service learning course, "Birding to Change the...

Birding to Change the World

In her new book “Birding to Change the World,” Trish O’Kane, Senior Lecturer in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at...

UVM Student Testifies for Legislation to Safeguard Youth Health

For his Senior Public Communication Capstone Project, Marcus Aloisi partnered with the Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community to help launch...

Conversations on Faculty Workload

In December, CELO Director Susan Munkres presented about CELO’s work to the Academic Leadership Council, composed of Deans, Vice Provosts, and...

New Peer Educator Program Seeks to Address Interpersonal Violence at UVM and Beyond

Effectively preventing sexual and other forms of interpersonal violence involves a comprehensive approach. To start, this may include teaching...

From Research to Action: How One Student’s Summer REU Turned to Community-Centered Action

Miranda Degreenia has spent the past few years stepping further outside her comfort zone. Originally from Walden, a small, picturesque town in...

UVM Launches Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships

Vermont Governor Phil Scott and U.S. Senator Peter Welch were among the dignitaries on hand to help retired U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy and the...

Lessons in Leadership

CDAE major Elijah Ghia has spent the afternoon crafting a professional on-site interview space at UVM for his upcoming interview with Vermont...