The Office of Community Engagement at Campbell University helps students, faculty and staff create “purposeful lives and meaningful service” and to live out the mission of the university to educate students by providing “opportunities for servant leadership and community engagement, with emphasis on underserved communities,” while students “develop moral courage, social sensitivity and ethical responsibility.”
We believe that learning through service and community engagement has the potential to heighten a student’s “moral courage, social sensitivity, and ethical responsibility”; however, service may also reinforce power dynamics, abuse resources, impose hardship on communities, and damage relationships if performed with the wrong approach or in the wrong spirit.
Resources
Campbell Serve helps connect you to local community partners who are offering service opportunities. This platform helps you find, serve, and track your impact all in one place.
Download our app Causer or check out the website by using your Campbell Single Sign-On (SSO)
“A form of experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection as students. . . seek to achieve real objectives for the community and deeper understanding and skills for themselves. In the process, students link personal and social development with academic and cognitive development. . . experience enhances understanding; understanding leads to more effective action.” -Janet S. Eyler
Check out the Wiggins Memorial Library Teaching Resource Center (TRC) guide to service learning
TRC guideProcess:
- Create an agency on Campbell Serve that will go through an approval process. Once confirmed, you will receive an email, and you can begin posting your volunteer needs.
- Any questions you have, please reach out to the Director of Community Engagement at pajak@campbell.edu