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The following are two reflections from the engaged spring break experience of the half-credit CEL course “Food, Faith, and Justice”. The course explores the followng questions: why are people food insecure in Baltimore in 2024? How is the community responding (through direct service, grassroots organizing, policy, research, and advocacy)? How do we fit in? And how do we build hopeful, resilient. thoughtful communities of response? To read reflections from more students, please click here. Finding Solutions in Strength Katie Schadler ’26, participant The Food, Faith, and Justice 2024 cohort spent our first full day in Baltimore meeting the Black Church Food […]

On April 16, 2024 Sarah Junkin Woodard visited Bucknell to talk to alumni of the Bucknell Brigade, past faculty leaders and staff members. She gave a wonderful overview of the program’s beginnings and where it is now. She kindly agreed to record her presentation for our website, so that today’s Bucknellians can witness the tremendous difference the work of Jubilee House has made in Nueva Vida, Nicaragua. You can download the video here.

In Fall 2024 there are 3 courses being offered with the Community Based Learning designation in three difference departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. There are 14 Community Engaged courses (some with multiple sections and labs) being offered in all three colleges across the university. There are three courses in Engineering, three in Freeman College of Management, five in Arts and Sciences and three university courses (UNIV). College of Engineering CEL courses: Arts and Sciences CEL courses: Freeman College of Management University Courses .

In a 2024 civic engagement event, Passport to the World, which was held at the Lewisburg Children’s Museum on Saturday, March 30, the Foreign Language Teaching Assistants at Bucknell University brought their cultures from Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lebanon and Spain to local children. Children also got to learn about the American Deaf Community and the culture of American Sign Language (ASL). The festival featured hands-on crafts and activities, such as Japanese origami, coloring the flag of Colombia, making Play-Doh Italian pizza, and crafting the national tree of Lebanon. To read more about the event and its […]

In the most recent SHECP Talks episode, summer 2023 intern Dora Kreitzer ’25 interviewed two other Bucknell SHECP interns, Da’Mirah Vinson ’26 and Lissandro Alvarado ’25 about their experiences with the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) internship program. Both Vinson and Alvarado interned at Foundation Communities in Austin, Texas, a non-profit which provides affordable homes, free on-site support services, and community resources such as college application assistance, tax advice, healthcare, and housing. Alvarado was an intern there in 2022, Vinson in 2023. In the summer of 2023, Alvarado was one of three participants in SHECP’s Policy & Nonprofit […]

Dr. Tom Solomon, Presidential Professor of Physics, is currently teaching UNIV 232, Science Technology and Society, a Community-Engaged Learning course that explores the effects science and those that study it have on society. What makes this course so special is that it is an Inside-Out course, which means that the course is taught in a correctional facility. Solomon travels to the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Coal Township with 12 Bucknell students, here referred to as outside students, to teach them and 12 incarcerated students, referred to as inside students. As of this semester, the inside students will receive course […]

The following is a TA reflection from the half-credit CEL course Food, Faith, and Justice.
What a week it has been! I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to come to Baltimore for Food, Faith, and Justice a second time. This week was filled with meaningful conversation, learning, connection, joy, and laughter.

The biggest change in the language is the addition of points 5 and 6 in the CBL course definition and points 6 and 7 in the CEL course definition. These additions come from the work of the anti-racist pedagogy group, run through the TLC, which met in Fall 2022. The group recognized that the definitions were missing any anti-racism focus and goals, which is a key part of community engaged learning. As a result, members of the TLC course drafted a definition, then took suggestions from current CEL/CBL practicioners as well as members of the Engaged Bucknell Coordinating Council (EBCC).

cfrancis blackchild is a Bucknell theatre professor who “directs, performs, teaches, and writes for and about theatre”, according to her personal website. In her theatre work and scholarship, blackchild focuses on the social functions and impacts of theatre. She has a focus in her practice on Theatre and Social Change and Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically using interactive performance in the Forum Theatre Technique. Through a course in the fall, blackchild is bringing Forum Theatre to Bucknell, to be presented in “Can We Talk About It?”, performed in Tustin Theatre Feb. 17, 18, and 19.

Dr. Chris Boyatzis is a professor of Psychology who focuses on Children’s and Developmental Psychology. At Bucknell, Boyatzis teaches two Community-Engaged Learning Courses: PSYC207- Developmental Psychology and PSYC320- Children’s Studies. Outside of his coursework, Boyatzis is a large proponent of civic engagement through his directorship of the Bucknell in Denmark summer program and his connection of students with Camp Koala: a camp for children experiencing death or grief.