Students doing work as part of community-engaged learning partnerships may engage in:
- Direct service: i.e. working with people: tutoring, mentoring, planting gardens, etc.
- Indirect service: i.e. sorting food, measuring trees, collecting GPS data, etc.
- Consultant-type services: i.e. producing deliverables: marketing plans, policy papers, educational campaigns, engineering designs, etc.
- Research: i.e. data collection and analysis: interviewing staff, volunteers or clients; studying comparable organizations elsewhere; statistical analysis of existing data sets, etc.
Community Partner Roles and Responsibilities
As part of the reciprocal partnership with faculty and students, community partners may be asked to:
- help design the project, and/or create a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the faculty member
- provide necessary training to students implementing the project
- supervise students on-site
- provide feedback to students on projects or performance
- attend final presentations of projects
- provide feedback to faculty on student participation
If you are interested in working with a community-engaged UVM course, or with individual students as part of a service-learning internship, contact us at celo@uvm.edu. We are always happy to discuss opportunities for collaboration.
Regular Community Partners
List of Regular Community Partners
Below are some of the community organizations, associations, local governments, schools, and nonprofits that UVM students regularly work with.
*Note that not all faculty choose to report their partners publicly, while other partners (e.g. international) are not included in our data.
- Addison Northwest School District
- Age Well Vermont
- Alzheimers Association
- Art from the Heart
- Audubon Vermont
- Boys and Girls Club
- Bread and Butter Farm
- Bridges to Health
- Bristol Hub Teen Center
- BSD Burlington School District After School Program
- Burlington City Arts
- Burlington High School
- Burlington Media Factory
- Burlington Public School District
- CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
- Champlain Islands Parent Child Center
- Champlain Valley Head Start
- Champlain Valley Union High School
- Chittenden County Public Defender
- Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility
- City of Burlington Department of Parks, Recreation & Waterfront
- City of South Burlington
- City of St. Albans
- City of Winooski
- Converse Home Memory Care Program
- Crow's Path
- Department of Forest, Parks, & Recreation
- Digger's Mirth Collective Farm
- Edmunds Middle School
- Essex CHIPS
- Ferrisburgh Conservation Commission
- Fish and Wildlife
- Flynn Elementary School
- Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC)
- Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School
If you do not see your organization on this list and would like to be included, please contact us.
CELO News
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