Civic Engagement

Explore service and learning programs that connect CU-Boulder students, staff and faculty with communities across Colorado and beyond.

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Alternative Breaks
Alternative Breaks is a program of the Volunteer Resource Center. The program sends trips across the country (Spring) and abroad (Summer) to take place in a week long service project with a group of peers. Alternative Breaks accepts and trains leaders each fall. It is these leaders that guide their...
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AVID Tutoring
This is an outreach program that meets a requirement for a course taught in the School of Education. The collaboration involves sending CU-Boulder students that are participating in the Knowing and Learning teacher licensure course to various middle and high schools in BVSD to serve as AVID tutors. AVID is...
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BOLD Center
The BOLD (Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity) Center of CU-Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science is committed to graduating an innovative and competitive engineering work force that is diverse in gender, ethnicity and socio-economic representation. BOLD's purpose is to break down the barriers that keep too many of...
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Center for Asian Studies K-12 Outreach
The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado brings together faculty, students, and community members to encourage and support Asian scholarship across disciplinary and college boundaries. Through its three principal K-12 outreach programs, CAS annually offers opportunities for teachers ranging from Saturday workshops to...
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CESR (Center for Education on Social Responsibility) in the Leeds School of Business
Bridging Business and Social Responsibility The mission of CESR, in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder is to develop socially conscious, values-driven business leaders of tomorrow by preparing them to meet the ethical, social and environmental challenges of today's business world. It is the purpose of...
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CESR's Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate
The Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) offers the Certificate in Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) to further develop students' ability to meet future leadership challenges by crossing the boundaries of traditional functional areas of business and those that separate business from other academic disciplines. Students who complete the certificate...
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Clinical Research, Education, Services, and Treatment (CREST) Program
Under the direction of Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D., the Clinical Research, Education, Services, and Treatment (CREST) program at CU-Boulder focuses on developing, investigating, and providing evidence based treatments to reduce problems that cause suffering in people's lives and to promote sustained well-being. The program focuses on the problem of depression generally and...
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CMTL: A Community of Mathematics Teachers and Learners
This program recruits students from The Spirit and Uses of Mathematics, the CU-Boulder mathematics course sequence designed for prospective elementary school teachers (typically the only math courses future elementary school teachers will take at the university), into a service learning project at several Boulder Valley Elementary Schools: Escuela...
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Colorado Bioneers
Colorado Bioneers Conference is a regional event for students, faculty, staff, and the broader community to connect with visionary and practical solutions for restoring people and the planet. Focusing on successful and innovative models, examples, stories, and research, Bioneers celebrates, networks, and inspires. Since 2002, Colorado Bioneers has...
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Colorado European Union Center of Excellence
The Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) promotes understanding of the European Union (EU) and transatlantic (EU-US) relations through teaching, research and outreach activities at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the broader Mountain West region. The CEUCE was founded in 2008 with the support of...
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Communication And Social Engagement (CASE) for Sustainability
Communication And Social Engagement (CASE) identifies and provides students at the University of Colorado opportunities to serve their communities in the interest of environmental sustainability and Communication scholarship. CASE brings together scholars, practitioners, and students to work to understand and implement communication strategies for a more sustainable world. Together with...
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CU Going Local
CU Going Local is a committed group of university and community members brought together by the common desire to create a more sustainable world through relocalizing campus community. Through the most fundamental necessity of food, CU Going Local strives to combat global environmental and social problems through community-based initiatives. CU Going...
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CU GOLD - Gaining Opportunities Through Leadership Development
CU GOLD provides free leadership development programs open to all CU-Boulder students to inspire students to create positive change in their communities. The programs range from semester-long weekly seminars (Core Leadership Program) to a half-day intensive conference (Annual Leadership Conference). It also provide services for student groups (Workshops in a...
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CU Writing Outreach
CU Writing Outreach is funded through the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee and teaches Imaginative Writing to elementary school classrooms in the Denver Public Schools, Jefferson Country Public Schools, Boulder Valley School District, and surrounding areas. CU Writing Outreach organizes writers from the Creative Writing Program of the English Department at CU-Boulder and...
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CUBIC (CU Business Intensive Certificate)
In 2011, the CUBIC program is entering it's 11th year and students may take this business bootcamp during Maymester (May 9-27) or during summer (June 6-24). Housing and dining options will be available for students taking CUBIC in June at an additional cost. Graduates face an increasingly competitive job market...
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Energy Justice: Combating Poverty and Global Warming in Ayaviri Peru (Stage Two)
A full one third of the world's population, typically living on less than a dollar or two per day, has no access to modern energy resources. The majority of these people rely on burning biomass (such as cow manure, crop residues, or collected wood) to meet all of their energy...
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Engineers Without Borders - Peru
In 2008 the Peru team started a partnership with a small rural community called Llacamate. Several community leaders came to us requesting our help building a potable water system. Working with the community the team conducted a thorough feasibility study, collected community and topographical data and...
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Front Range Pika Project
The general public is invited to take part in a citizen-science program focused on the American pika, a small relative of rabbits that inhabits the Rockies and other rocky places throughout the western US. Volunteers are trained and coordinated through the Denver Zoo's citizen science program. Register at...
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Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement
The Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement (IECE) was formally established in August 2005 by then Chancellor Phil DiStefano, following nearly three years of advanced planning. The IECE received a very different and innovative institute mission: serve as a catalyst, advocate, coordinator and facilitator to stimulate the advancement of ethical...
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INVST Community Leadership Program
The INVST Community Leadership Program combines academics with activism, for CU undergraduates who are interested in social and environmental justice. The Community Leadership Program (CLP) is a life-altering educational experience that exposes students to what is, and cultivates them as leaders to work for what could be. Each year,...
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