Center for Civic Engagement
At Shenandoah University
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.
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.
Contact the Center for Civic Engagement
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
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Learning Through Service | Discovering Through Action
Mission Statement
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.
Vision Statement
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
Shenandoah University Integrates Service Into The Educational Process
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
Download The Complete Faculty & Community Partner 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
