

The Center for Civic Engagement & Learning (CCEL) promotes civic engagement and active learning through service opportunities that address community needs, such as:
• One-time and on-going projects and programs that introduce students and faculty to community service opportunities that support learning and benefit the community.
• Assistance to students seeking service learning coursework or community-based capstone projects.
• Work-study and paid placements.
• Opportunities for community organizations to raise awareness of service events at their sites.
• Information about local, national and international service opportunities.
• Programs that connect students with the Cleveland community.
Case SERVES offers students flexible opportunities to get involved in community service. Projects have included working with children at after-school programs, visiting with elderly residents and working at the Cleveland Foodbank.
Through Project STEP-UP, students tutor and mentor elementary through high school pupils in classrooms and after-school programs. CCEL sponsors a Community Service Fair at the beginning of each semester in which nonprofit organizations, service-oriented student organizations and campus programs promote opportunities to make a difference in the community.
The center supports Alternative Break Trips. Destinations have included New Orleans to assist in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and the Dominican Republic as part of Case DRIVE, a program that promotes interdisciplinary international service learning. Additional information is available at http://studentaffairs.case.edu/ civicengagement.