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Community-Engaged Learning

Work with local leaders and residents on local issues. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Engage in activities that address justice issues, strengthen communities, and enhance your civic competencies and values. Use what you learn to help change the world.

Join a Living-Learning Community

Live with others while taking a common set of courses that integrate core requirements into the curriculum. Living-learning communities include a year-long community-engaged learning initiative that enables you to build relationships with the community and maximize contributions to social change efforts.

Students on the grass speak to USF President.

Contribute to Social Justice

Take community-engaged learning beyond your coursework and join initiatives and programs that advance the common good while also developing your academic, professional, and civic skills.

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Pursue Public Service

Fashion a more humane and just world. Cultivate authentic community partnerships while pursuing a life of ethical public service.

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Confront Injustice

Confront injustice and inhumanity in all forms. Study the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Work to address social problems in our communities, across the nation, and around the world.

Mural that reads Love is the Revolution

Support Your Neighbors

Support children, youth, and families in the Western Addition to achieve their full potential in education, health, career development, and housing.