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In the fall of 2025, there are three courses being taught that have the Community Based Learning (CBL) designation.  Two of these courses are in the College of Arts and Sciences: One of these courses is being offered within the Freeman College of Management: There are also 15 Community Engaged Courses (CEL) (some with multiple sections and labs), including six from the College of Arts and Sciences, four from Freeman College of Management, two from the college of engineering, and three University courses (UNIV).  Arts and Sciences CEL courses:  Freeman College of Management CEL courses:  College of Engineering CEL courses:  […]

For the past three years, the Center for Community Engaged Leadership, Learning, and Research (CCELLR) has been working on a project called the Kindness Campaign. The Kindness Campaign originated in 2020, with the local Evangelical Hospital speaking with Susquehanna Valley regional United Way about starting a positive youth kindness campaign, which they would fund. That year, the campaign lasted for a week with its biggest highlights being at a Bucknell men’s basketball game, where the campaign was shared with the community, merch was given out, and really the core of this campaign was started.  Stacey Piecuch, the Assistant Director for […]

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 following questions: why are people food insecure in Baltimore in 2025? 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. A Journey Toward Belonging Shaheryar Asghar ’28, participant Yesterday felt different; it was a day where coming to Baltimore no longer felt like an adjustment — it […]

For more information on “Freedom First” and the performer, Keith Lamar, a poet on death row, who will perform via bluetooth speaker during the concert. here is a NYT piece that explains both very well: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/arts/music/keith-lamar-death-row-freedom-first.html

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 one afternoon each week within the prison for a series of discussions, writing exercises and sharing sessions on the subject of reading and writing poetry. Together, we established a foundation of trust and connection that allowed us to learn from each other. Two conversations come […]

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 […]

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 following 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 […]