The Community Engagement Center at UC Merced offers a variety of pathways for our campus and our community to partner together. If your agency or organization requires students to go through the Community Engagement Center in order to partner with you we will do our best to be sure they have completed the appropriate trainings, forms & waivers for the safety of all.
If you would like to schedule an on-campus information session to share what your organization does with our student population, or if you would like to hold an orientation for students who will be coming to your site at different times, please contact us and we can help reserve space and provide parking for your representatives.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CENTER PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES:
5 General Education Intellectual Experiences for students to complete the
LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY & ENGAGING THE WORLD "Badge":
- Bobcat Education Success Tutors
- I CAN READ K-3 Literacy Tutors
- Sprouts Nutrition & Gardening Mentors
- Habitat Enrichment (Zoo)
- My Environment, My World Environmental Literacy Coaches
IMPACT INITIATIVES:
- Merced County Project 10% Presentors
- Lift While You Lead High School Mentors
- Read to Me Elementary School Readers
SERVICE PLACEMENTS:
Semester-Long partnerships where students are at the community partner site once a week or more throughout the semester (you can ask us more about this and we can help organize this type of partnership)
SERVICE PROJECTS:
Short (1-5 hour) projects/events that occur annually or once or twice a semester (with a couple weeks notice we can usually recruit a group of students to support your project!)