Center for Service & Civic Engagement

Champlain College isn’t just a place to earn a degree -- it’s also where students learn how to be responsible, respectful, proactive citizens. The Center for Service & Civic Engagement provides the encouragement, resources and training that allow our students, faculty and staff to connect with the community -- on local, national and global levels -- through leadership, service, mentorship, partnership, reflection and dialogue.

Champlain College and the Center for Service & Civic Engagement offer a number of curricular and cocurricular programs to address community issues. Many of these initiatives are the result of individuals identifying a need and working with others in the community to take action and address that need.

Programs include volunteering for disaster relief and Habitat for Humanity, tutoring local refugee students, cooking soup every week for the Salvation Army, assisting low-income individuals in filing their taxes, raising awareness about social issues through dialogue and discussion groups, designing educational video games, switching hundreds of light bulbs on campus to save energy, visiting elders in the hospital and organizing blood-drives for the American Red Cross.