2021-2022 Recap

Covid-19 Response

The Center for Community Values and Action (CCVA) seeks to connect education to public purpose and community action through curricular and co-curricular programs and initiatives. The CCVA has reimagined and reframed the service-learning program with a critical social justice lens to broaden an understanding of the current context, intentionally address the persistent and deeply rooted historical and institutional inequities that have been laid bare by the global health crisis, and expand an understanding of the ways in which collaboration and contribution can meaningfully build community. The upper division student-led commitments and activities develop a sense of purpose, a sense of identity, and a sense of belonging.

Over the last two years our students have interacted with Community Partners virtually but during the Spring and Summer of 2022 we were able to take successful trips off campus and away from the screens to visit our partners at Summer on the Hill, Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, Riverdale Senior Services & The Friendly Fridge

720 Upper Division Students participated in Grade Wide Service-Learning Days