Welcome Faculty and Staff!

The MSU Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) supports university faculty and academic staff across all colleges and majors in creating course-based community engaged learning opportunities. Community-engaged learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community partnerships with instruction and critical reflection to enrich the student learning experience, teach civic and social responsibility, and strengthen communities. Implementation strategies range from direct service to advocacy to research to philanthropy, and more, which means no shortage of ways students can meaningfully engage with communities to explore social issues.

Email the CCEL Academic Programs Team to discuss ideas, plans, and or partnership support:

Michelle Snitgen, msnitgen@msu.edu
Stephanie Brewer, sbrewer@msu.edu

Hooked on Community Engaged Learning: Consultation and Coffee

Connect over coffee with MSU Center for Community Engaged Learning staff to ask questions and to collaboratively brainstorm as you shape or enhance course-based community engaged learning experiences. Conversations may center on course design examples; community partnerships; developing syllabi; managing logistics; orienting students to enter a community with knowledge of identity, equity, and privilege; or considering diverse reflection strategies. Dedicate time to think and create, and leave with myriad resources, tools, and ideas.

Sessions are 45 minutes at Hooked in East Lansing. Register for a Hooked on Community Engaged Learning Spring 2025 session here:

• Friday, January 17th, 2025
• Thursday, February 20th, 2025
• Thursday, March 13th, 2025
• Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Learning at MSU: From Theory to Practice

The “Anti-Racist Community-Engaged Learning at MSU: From Theory to Practice” learning community will provide a space for interested practitioners to come together to dive deep into a new publication, Anti-Racist Community Engagement, and explore strategies for enhancing community-engaged teaching and learning at MSU. Members will read, dialogue, and critically reflect while considering implications for their own current or future practice. Learning community members will spend the first half of the year reading and book charting as a group, and the second half of the year in a reflective process to produce a collective self-study paper.

Check out the list of all of the 2024-25 Learning Communities, generously sponsored by the MSU Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development.

Connect with Michelle and Stephanie if you are interested in hearing more!