In the age of COVID-19 Ramapo College students have had to change course when it comes to Civic and Community Engagement. In a normal year Ramapo College students would be traveling all over the world to help lend a hand. Prior to COVID-19 students traveled to Nepal or Guatemala to help serving on the farmlands as well as building sustainable roads by transporting rocks and creating a stone base on top of dirt roads.
This Year-
For the spring semester of 2022 all community service trips are cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic. Due to cancellations there are many different options for students to volunteer virtually.
Virtual Service Opportunities-
- Tutoring
- Big Brother Big Sisters
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteering
- United Nations Volunteering
- Crisis Text Hotline Volunteer
- Contribute Captions to Youtube Videos
- Be My Eyes
All interested students should contact Dylan Heffernan at dheffer1@ramapo.edu
Why it matters
“A socially cohesive and economically vibrant US democracy…require[s] informed, engaged, open-minded, and socially responsible people committed to the common good and practiced in ‘doing’ democracy…. Civic learning needs to be an integral component of every level of education, from grade school through graduate school, across all fields of study.”
–Excerpt from A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future
The Big Picture
Ramapo College students and the Civic and Community Engagement Center (CCEC) have given back to the community since the college has been established. Local communities thrive when our nation and global communities give there services through thoughtful acts in meaning-making and problem-solving.
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