Center for Community Engagement

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The Center for Community Engagement provides resources to build a culture of civic responsibility and engaged learning at Eastern. The Center creates sustainable and effective relationships with community partners that benefit the local community, provide students with valuable life and employability skills, and support faculty in developing high-impact curricular practices. Opportunities are available in tutoring and mentoring in area schools, juvenile and adult rehabilitation, programs focused on cultural awareness, hunger and homelessness, animal rehabilitation, and health and wellness.

The Center:

Assists Eastern students in volunteer placements based on their schedules and interests
Provides Eastern students with training, orientation and reflection activities to improve their skills and make them effective volunteers
Empowers students to be proactive and develop their personal volunteer interests
Works with faculty to incorporate service-learning into their courses
Engages with community partners to ensure that programs meet their needs and provide students with a meaningful experience

Visit us at our Victorian house at 333 Prospect Street!

Director Lana O'Connor oconnorla@easternct.edu (860) 465-4426	Community Engagement Coordinator Lexie Mastroianni mastroiannil@easternct.edu (860) 465-5158
Center for Community Engagement 333 Prospect Street, Willimantic, CT 06226 cce@easternct.edu (860) 465-0090 Mailing: 83 Windham Street, Willimantic, CT 06226

students sitting inside a small decorational train car with a sign for O.L. Willard Co. on the side

student holding a donut on a string while a child tries to bite it

students sitting in a large installation of letters VCU

student posing with child and their crayon colored page from a coloring book

student giving thumbs up while wearing rain gear and unpacking boxes of food from a truck

student sitting on a tarp on the grass while the sun sets in the background

students holding up t-shirts for a breast cancer awareness display

students posing for a photo with people in various mascot outfits

Community Beyond the Classroom

Students posing for photo wearing pink I heart me! t-shirts

students standing around a large installation of the world Love in pink letters

a student and a person dressed up in a bunny costume

Willi the Warrior hanging out with members of CCE

members of the CCE taking a selfie on the lawn outside of the library wearing pink Town Pride Town Wide t-shirts

student holding a glittery water bottle and a child wearing a tiara and holding a pipe cleaner wand

group of children with their faces painted and with temporary tattoos wearing medals and red Windham Public School t-shirts

two students touching and brushing a large horse

a group of students and children posing for a selfie

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