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  • Reflections from Baltimore: “Finding Solutions in Strength” and “Years and Small Steps”

    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…


  • Why? A Reflection on Inside-Out

    Written by Amira Faden This past semester, I have had the honor of taking a poetry class through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. The course took place in a local prison: 8 of the students came from Bucknell (“outside students”) and 8 of the students were incarcerated in the local prison (“inside students”). We met…


  • Celebrating 25 years of the Bucknell Brigade

    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…


  • CBL/CEL courses for Fall 2024

    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…