Community-Engaged Teaching and Research
Year in Review 2023-2024
Thank you to all our student service-learning leaders, students, faculty members, and community partners who made the 2023-2024 year a success!
Community-Engaged Teaching and Research: by the numbers
S-L Teaching Assistants
Service-Learning Course Sections
Community Partners Collaborating with Service-Learning
Enrolled Students in Service-Learning Courses
Faculty Members Teaching Service-Learning Courses
NU Colleges with Service-Learning Courses
CETR Student Leader Spotlights
Lara Pallek
Read Student Leader Lara Pallek’s reflections on her transformative community work with CETR.
Rowan Greenberg
Read about Student Leader Rowan ‘Pip’ Greenberg’s reflections on her participation in the Heart of Community Awards.
Community Collaboration Spotlight
This year’s Publicly Engaged Scholar-in-Residence (PESIR) featured two days of art-driven community engagement and social justice activism, featuring the impactful work of local multi-disciplinary artists, including celebrated muralist and activist Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs. The community came together to explore the transformative power of art in bridging diverse communities. The impacts of the arts—including visual arts, design, architecture, music, and theater—for supporting equitable, inclusive community development has long been underrecognized in policymaking, underinvested in by public and private funders, and understudied in academic settings.
The 2024 PESIR program addressed these pervasive gaps and built connections among stakeholders working in diverse media and contexts with community-based artists, activists, and organizers. The events included panel discussions and workshops exploring the power of arts-based approaches to social change, learning from the contributions of arts activists working in Roxbury, which is the heart of Boston’s African American and Black communities but also includes a growing number of Latinx and Asian residents.
Service-Learning Virtual EXPO 2024
Managed by the Community-Engaged Teaching and Research team, the Virtual EXPO site hosts digital artifacts from each service-learning semester to showcase student, faculty, and community collaborations. The S-L Virtual Expo has hosted over 500 artifacts since the fall of 2018 and serves as a rich tool for storytelling and showcasing collaborations.
Explore the Digital Artifacts page to view Spring 2024 Service-Learning semester collaborations!
