Engagement Opps.
for Winter Break & Beyond!
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Now Accepting Applications:
Rochester Urban Fellows & Rochester Youth Year
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Rochester Urban Fellows is a 10-week summer program that engages local undergraduates in ~300-hour fellowships with local community organizations, faculty- and community-led urban issue dialogues, and community events.
Urban Fellows applications are due Friday, February 19, 2021. You can access the 2021 program application here.
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Rochester Youth Year is a full-year fellowship program that engages and empowers local graduates to strengthen the capacity of community organizations in an effort to alleviate the effects of poverty for Rochester youth and families.
RYY project proposals are due Friday, February 5, 2021. You can access the 2021-2022 here.
RYY Member applications are due Friday, March 5, 2021. You can access the 2021-2022 application here.
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Anti-Racist Leadership Opp.
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Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's book, How To Be An Antiracist, will help guide your self-examination of the relationship between race, racism, and antiracism, with the responsibility we have as leaders to authentically contribute to racial equity on our campus, as well as through our civic, social, and familial roles.
Register here to attend this event.
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Medallion Workshop Registration Now Open
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Check out the new calendar of 2021 Medallion Leadership workshops. All workshops require registration. See Medallion's CCC event page for details and links.
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Rochester Youth Year Annual Meeting
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Rochester Youth Year is excited to host its first virtual Annual Meeting on Friday, January 29th! All are welcome to join and hear from RYY fellows, who serve at various community organizations around Rochester, as they discuss how their agencies are innovating the ways they serve the community. Friday, January 29, 2021 - 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Zoom Link TBA! Stay tuned to RYY on Facebook for details.
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Online Book Group Discussions:
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Healing Resistance
Join Kit Miller and Jonathon Jones in reading this 2020 book on nonviolence by Kingian nonviolence and restorative practitioner Kazu Haga. This group will meet Thursdays 7:00-8:30 pm for 6 weeks, Dec 10 – Jan 21. For more information, click here.
My Grandmother's Hands
This weekly book group is for people interested in exploring how our bodies store and respond to our racial history. Gandhi Institute staff members Chyna Moorehead and Matt Liston will lead this discussion group. For more information, click here.
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Celebrating Food Justice & Community-Engaged Learning Students!
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Recently, students presented their final presentations for Leila Nadir’s and Cary Adams’ community-engaged courses EHUM 268 Food Justice, Urban Farming, Social Practice, and SART 262 Food, Farming, Media, Social Practice. Both courses were supported by our Community-Engaged Learning initiative with course development and course operational grants this year. Congrats to these students on the completion of their hard work!
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CCE is Here for You - Here's how to get in touch
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As we near the end of this incredibly difficult year, we want to remind you that the staff of CCE is here for you. While we might not always be on campus, we are committed to maintaining are connections to students, staff and our partners in the community - so you always have someone on the other end of an email, message or call ready to help! See our staff page for information about how to reach us or set up a virtual meeting.
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2020 Reflections of Environmental and Social Justice
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As the year draws near an end, we reflect on the events of 2020 that shook the globe. From the Coronavirus pandemic and wildfires in Australia and California, to the Black Lives Matter protests and presidential election, the impact of the events in 2020 have affected sustainability, in some ways that are not apparent. Read more about the reflections written by The Green Dandelion here.
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New to View: Breaking the Bubble Videos on YT
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Our Favorite Things About Rochester!
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As part of this year's Wilson Days of Engagement, which was expanded to accommodate for socially-distant and virtual activities, we encouraged members of the University and the community to share some of their favorite things about Rochester.
Thank you to all the participants and this year's Wilson Day coordinator, Madeline Bordo, for their time and work on this video project <3
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