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We provide leadership opportunities for students to grow personally and professionally in immersive experiences.

Practice your Purpose with Passion in Service and Dialogue

The Center for Civic Engagement offers many opportunities for students to become “ethical, compassionate citizens who are committed to making responsible contributions within a community, nation, and world.” We provide opportunities for you to do this through volunteer service, dialogues across difference, and voter engagement. We want to provide leadership opportunities for students to grow personally and professionally in immersive experiences.

Rebecca Gibson
rgibson@su.edu

Sue Cullers
suesan.cullers@su.edu

Thinking about starting a service project? Once you have identified the site/project, we will work with the site to set up the project and the logistics.

540-665-4862 | serve@su.edu
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Brandt Student Center, Room 119
1460 University Drive
Winchester, VA 22601

Learning Through Service | Discovering Through Action

Prepare students to participate in a just and democratic society by providing experiences in service-learning, civic dialogue, and community engagement inside and outside the classroom through mutually beneficial partnerships that inspire a responsibility towards a community, nation, and world.

The CCE will be the hub of community-engaged, transformative learning by cultivating community partnerships and providing immersive opportunities for students to practice their purpose with passion.

Service-Learning In The Classroom

Various professors across the different disciplines here at SU have integrated Service-Learning into their coursework. Several have woven this initiative into the critical goals of the semester’s syllabus!

Service-Learning Tool Kit

By integrating both academic learning and community service, service learning courses differs in focus from both practicum/internship experiences and volunteer experiences. The teaching methods and learning activities in service learning courses are more student-directed than is typical in traditional lecture-based courses.

Center for Civic Engagement News

Shenandoah University Named a Voter Friendly Campus for Third Time

SU one of 272 schools recognized by The Campus Vote Project and NASPA

Shenandoah University Recognized as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting 

Shenandoah University is one of 471 colleges and universities recognized for outstanding efforts to increase nonpartisan student voter participation in the 2024 election

SU Students Travel to Richmond to Engage in ‘Relevant and Educational’ Advocacy

Spiritual Life, Center for Civic Engagement partner to bring students to Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s 2024 Student Day of Action