Community Engagement integrates service to the greater community with classroom instruction, connects service to academic content, and encourages personal reflection. Community Engagement also supports a number of programs allowing students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other Centenary community members to perform meaningful service throughout the local and global community.

 

About Community Engagement

The purpose of Community Engagement:

• To provide Centenary students with an opportunity to make the community their classroom.

• To transform and expand our students' understanding of their role in the community.

• To encourage civic engagement and responsibility among the Centenary community.

 

Community Engagement at Centenary includes:

• Supporting Service-Learning Courses

• Orientation Service Day

• MLK Service Day

• The BIG Event

 

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“My experience with Greenhouse has been wonderful. I learned that I can make a huge difference by doing things that seem small. For instance, I helped a family open a community garden by raking leaves and cleaning the area for plants and vegetables to grow.”

– Dellanee wade '16