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CCCE Newsletter: Winter 2022
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Welcome to the CCCE newsletter, where you will hear how Carleton College's Center for Community and Civic Engagement is intersecting with community partners, faculty, staff, and students. We will highlight stories about curricular, co-curricular, community based work study, research projects, and events happening in — and in collaboration with — the CCCE. Contact Sinda Nichols, Director of the CCCE, with your ideas about how we can make this resource more useful!
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Emily Seru has joined the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) at Carleton as of January 1. Emily comes to us with a wealth of experience in community-engaged pedagogy, a strong critical practice and commitment to social justice, and an organizer's appreciation for the primacy of relationships in this work. Emily has a deep understanding of both private college and nonprofit sectors.
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During New Student Week in September, the CCCE fellows and sustainability assistants collaborated with Cowling Arboretum staff to host the annual “Into the Arb” event. Volunteers led student groups through the arb and had each group plant an oak tree as part of an ongoing effort to restore the arboretum. The day concluded with students reflecting upon the activity and ways they could further contribute to the campus and greater community. The purpose of this event was to familiarize new students with the arb and introduce them to the CCCE and its programming.
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As a CCCE Education Equity Fellow and SOAN major, senior Maddie Fry’s life is full of opportunities to think about the ways education and ethical community engagement intersect.
Recently, Maddie shared their past experiences with community engagement, work as a CCCE Fellow, and community-engaged comps project.
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Carleton students Colleen Milligan ’22 and Tali Emlen ’22 (a current CCCE fellow), spent their summer as food access interns at the Northfield Community Action Center. They helped support the inaugural Farm to Family Market at the former Greenvale school, with food donated by local retailers and bought from three local CSA farms.
The market collaboration emerged in part from Adam Loy’s Statistical Consulting class—an Academic Civic Engagement Course — where students analyzed data from the CAC to help see how they were serving the community and uncover areas of additional need.
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Clarissa Guzman ’22 had a summer internship with Northfield’s Healthy Community Initiative (HCI). Her experience with HCI shows the many ways experiential learning opportunities catalyze careers for early talent. Clarissa forged connections between their evenings in the park events and surplus supplies from Carleton's lighten up garage sales to match children and families with needed household goods and toys.
Thanks to HCI for being inspirational in the experiential learning partnerships with Carleton students and CCCE fellowship funding, made possible by Weitz Family Grant and Fred Anderson Endowment, for supporting Clarissa’s success in this internship.
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This past summer, Education Equity fellow Adi Satish ’23 interned with the Community Action Center of Faribault, where he worked to combat food insecurity by helping establish the free food market and resource center. “I've never done a job where I was able to actually go into the community and create change, which is what I did with the food shelf,” he said.
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Featured ACE Collaborations
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The CCCE recently interviewed Lin Winton, Director of the Quantitative Resource Center and Lecturer in Biology, about her course Data Visualization as Activism, a first-year argument and inquiry (A&I) course for TRIO students. The course included an academic civic engagement (ACE) component for the first time in Fall 2021, thanks to a grant from Project Pericles.
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The CCCE recently interviewed Anita Chikkatur, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, about the Participatory Action Research Website. This website came about as part of a multi-year, campus-community participatory action research (PAR) collaboration between Carleton College and community members and institutions in Faribault, MN and was funded through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. This past fall, Professor Chikkatur received funding from the CCCE to hire a student public scholarship assistant, Ahtziry Tinajero, to help update and maintain the website.
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- Community Partner Appreciation Event: Community Partners, Faculty, Staff and Students will be invited to attend on March 1, noon to 1:30 p.m. for a Reception in Severance Great Hall on the Carleton Campus.
- Hiring New 5th Year Associate: Anna Schumacher '21, Educational Associate for Community and Civic Engagement, will be finishing her year in the Office and we will be searching for a Carleton grad from the Class of '22 to join our office. Applications will be sought at the end of Winter Term. Watch for our announcements!
- Empty Bowls: This year’s event is set for Friday, May 13. Think about becoming a soup maker to help this worthy cause!
- Wellstone House for Organizing and Actvism (WHOA) now under CCCE Umbrella. Sign up for events!
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Carleton College
Center for Community and Civic Engagement
One North College Street
Sayles-Hill 151
Northfield, MN 55057
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