Community Engagement Associate  Program

https://servicelearning.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/community-engagement-associate-program/index.html

The Community Engagement Associate (CEA) program has a long history at IU Indianapolis, starting with the Service Learning Assistant (SLA) Scholarship Program. Historically, community-engaged faculty and staff received funding to provide scholarships to students to support work in service learning courses, community-engaged programs, or community-based research projects that advanced the community-engagement mission of IU Indianapolis. In 2021, the SLA program shifted to a student employment program in which students and community engagement associates (CEAs) were hired to work part-time hours to support faculty and staff in their community-engaged endeavors. 

The CEA Program is part of the IU Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL), Hine Hall, 243.

The Institute for Engaged Learning promotes and supports the equitable progression of undergraduates through pathways of connected and scaffolded curricular and co-curricular, applied, integrative, and experiential learning opportunities that prepare students for lives of commitment and success with skills to communicate, innovate, and engage in local and global communities to address 21st century problems.

The institute is comprised of units and centers that work together to support faculty, staff, and students in these efforts, including:

• First-Year Experience programs

• Center for Service and Learning

• Center for Research and Learning

• ePortfolio/Portfolio Initiative and The Portfolio Studio

• The Record of Experiential and Applied Learning

The institute seeks partnerships with other units offering engaged learning experiences in the campus wide effort to ensure that all undergraduate students participate in at least four scaffolded, high-impact engaged learning experiences by the time they graduate.