Funding Initiative: Community Engaged Learning

Students working in Ceiba, Puerto Rico with APRODEC, wearing hardhats

The Center for Community Engaged Learning brings students together with the University’s partner organizations, in New York and abroad, for learning experiences that transform their understanding of issues of justice and community development.

Courses that have a community engaged learning component increased more than sevenfold, to 52, in the five years ending in spring 2021. Our goal is to keep expanding these courses so that every student has a chance to take at least one. Your gift to the center can help meet this goal by supporting the following and more:

Stipends for co-educators who support our courses
Workshops, tutoring, and programming with community partners
Stipends for faculty members who develop courses
Professional development and events for faculty
Course materials and transportation
Research by faculty and students
Academic and preprofessional workshops and events for students

Give Now to Support Community Engaged Learning

Interested in endowing funds, naming opportunities, or have other questions? Please contact Michael Boyd, senior associate vice president of development and university relations, at 212-636-6525 or mboyd7@fordham.edu.

Community Engaged Learning at Fordham

Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Spring Update

At the Climate Action Summit held April 8 at Rose Hill, several elected officials were on hand to celebrate Fordham’s new role as an EPA grantmaker. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the crowd, “We couldn’t have thought of a better place than Fordham” to dispense the federal funding, which will go to grassroots …

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Annual Summit Focuses on Climate Change Leadership

Daylong Event Calls for Grassroots Action and Celebrates Fordham’s Role as EPA Grantmaker We don’t all have to be scientists to fight climate change, a prominent marine biologist and activist told Fordham students, activists, and members of the Bronx community at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus on April 8. “I think what the world needs, right …

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Raising Bronx Voices

Since the 1970s, Fordham students have been studying and contributing to the spirit of innovation and community renewal that has come to define what it means to be a Bronxite. Fifty years ago, a new art form burst forth on the streets of the Bronx, born from rich musical traditions and a spirit of innovation …

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Fordham to Use $50M EPA Grant to Uplift Communities

Fordham University has been awarded a $50 million grant focused on environmental justice, issued through a competitive grant process by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Fordham will serve as a grantmaker to community-based groups in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and will also fund the environmental research of its …

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Caring for Our Common Home: Fordham Sustainability Update

Last summer, in response to a call from Pope Francis to “take concrete actions in the care of our common home,” Fordham published the Laudato Si’ Action Plan. The document set forth an ambitious seven-year plan for the University that touches on everything from facilities and curriculum to student involvement, all with the ultimate goal …

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20 in Their 20s: Shannon Marcoux

A lawyer fights fights for environmental and human rights Shannon Marcoux discovered her passion for environmental justice in 2016, when she was teaching in Micronesia as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps soon after graduating from Fordham College at Rose Hill. “The school drew students from all over, including countries like the Marshall Islands, …

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On and Off Campus, Building Community and Finding Opportunities for Reflection

By hosting events with partner organizations and adding opportunities to reflect and connect, the Office of Mission Integration and Ministry is working to help students, faculty, and staff find community on and off campus. The office’s expanding programs draw people who come from many faith backgrounds as well as those who come to their values …

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Haunted Open House Spotlights McShane Center’s Impact on Student Life

It was a new ambience for the Joseph M. McShane, S.J. Campus Center: eerie music, wolf howls, ghoulish costumes, giant cobwebs, a hallway-size haunted house, laughter mixed with the occasional frightful yelp. The one flaw in the spookiness? All that natural light flooding in through the huge windows. “The sun is always shining in, it’s …

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Fordham Earns Grant to ‘Reimagine’ a Better Cross Bronx Expressway

Fordham’s Center for Community Engaged Learning has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to help Bronx residents decide how best to fix the Cross Bronx Expressway. The highway, which was constructed in the 1950s and ’60s, has long been blamed for a host of poor health outcomes …

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At Urban Plunge, Students Embrace the Bronx with Service and Curiosity

Nearly 250 first-year students fanned out across the Bronx on Aug. 25 as part of Fordham’s Urban Plunge – an annual pre-orientation program that gives new students the chance to explore the city’s diverse neighborhoods through a lens of community, diversity, and engagement. Students helped serve lunch to those in need at POTS—Part of the …

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Humanities Student Researchers Bond at Professors’ Home

Three undergraduates visited the home of professors Brenna Moore and John Seitz, where they shared updates on their summer research—and their lives—over a homemade dinner. “Sometimes the classroom can be such a formal atmosphere,” said Moore, who teaches theology at Fordham, along with Seitz, her husband. “Just seeing them lying on the floor with my …

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