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Rutgers’ Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships (CESEP) Program asks for your patience while we update our website to include the latest information on our exciting, new initiatives and programs including:

CESEP Faculty and Community Councils
- These councils drive CESEP’s mission and ensure that the program is meeting community identified needs while ensuring the academic integrity of our students’ work in reciprocal partnerships.
Civic Engagement / Public Scholarship Pathway
will offer Rutgers University undergraduates from all programs and schools the opportunity to integrate service in the community with learning in the classroom in an academically progressive way that will be recognized upon graduation.
Engaged Luncheons give faculty members and community partners the opportunity to share scholarship, network across disciplines and learn best practices in campus community partnerships and feature renowned speakers on a variety of civic engagement-related topics.
“Learning to End Hunger” Initiative - will pull together the student volunteer and service learning resources of New Jersey colleges and universities to support the efforts of the New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition’s “Campaign to End Childhood Hunger by 2015” through increased participation in federally-funded nutrition programs and access to healthy foods.
New Jersey Leaders of Tomorrow Presidential Internship Program places specially chosen juniors and seniors to serve in the district offices of New Jersey state legislators to learn first-hand how public policy decisions are made by answering constituent concerns, conducting research, and learning the legislative process.
Rutgers Bonner Leaders Program gives students the opportunity to grow their leadership skills while serving in local community organizations eight to ten hours per week to address issues such as hunger/homelessness, educational equity, and improving literacy.

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Welcome!

First and foremost, thank you to all community leaders who have mentored our students during this past year and all CASE faculty engaged in public scholarship, teaching, and research who have helped in connecting the campuses with the broader communities.

As part of its renewed commitment to build faculty capacity to engage in public scholarship and strengthen student learning through civic participation, Rutgers is reconfiguring the CASE Program. Effective this semester, the Citizenship and Service Education program is being transitioned and renamed the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships (CESEP) program under the academic leadership of Dr. Maurice Elias. He is a prominent psychologist and Rutgers professor whose scholarship focuses on social-learning skills and emotional intelligence models. Our purpose in making this change is to strengthen the program'ss connection to faculty and better define the university's mission of service that will benefit all sectors of society.

CESEP will continue to report directly to the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities.

The Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program ( CESEP ) will build upon the proud history of the Citizenship and Service Education program while striving to reach the following goals:

To make civic partnerships, engaged teaching and service learning, a distinctive aspect of educational culture university-wide that is both, recognized and rewarded.
To create a support and assessment structure that will further Rutgers's public purpose and connect on-campus learning with real community needs.
To partner effectively with community organizations, civic leaders, and alumni; and involve these constituencies as co-educators and mentors.

In 2006, as part of the overall restructuring of undergraduate education at Rutgers, the Committee on Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship was convened by Dean Jerry Kukor and Associate Vice President Isabel Nazario to examine best practices for an organizational structure that would facilitate service learning university-wide. On June 8, 2007, a report was issued to Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Philip Furmanski outlining recommendation to advance Rutgers commitment to civic engagement and service learning. (Click here to read the Executive Summary.) As the recommendations of the report are implemented, the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships program will continue to administer service learning courses for faculty including placing and monitoring students in their community placements. We look forward to seeing increasing numbers of students and faculty participating in service learning and kindly thank you for your patience while we transition into CESEP.