For Students

The Community Engaged Learning (CEL) program enables to students to apply what they learn in class to issues in society while collaborating with community members, faculty, staff, and other students. Students from all years and majors have the opportunity to enroll in CEL classes and/or to become Community Engaged Fellows. For examples, please see profiles below.

"This program introduced me to a host of new 
experiences, ideas, and skills that a normal
course could never have yielded. In my 
capacity as CEF, I served as a liasion 
between students and community partners for
this project, scheduling interviews, inviting 
them to events, and helping students reflect
on these encounters during group meetings." -

 Anna Lisa Macon (CEF Spring 2009)

    

"Community involement is a simple
andinnovative way to facilitate learning
by getting out of the classroom and into
the neighborhood around you." - 

 Chelsey Dionne (CEF 2009-2010)

    

"Through my CEL work I have gained a deep respect for the Waltham
community and its citizens which has resulted in meaningful and
lasting friendships. I have found an opportunity to immerse
myself not as an outsider, but as a member of the city I am
learning in." -
Mariah Rich (CEF Fall 2009)