What is Civic Engagement at UCLA?

Civic engagement includes both an awareness of public issues and active participation with community organizations.

Students who are civically engaged apply what they have learned and generate new knowledge across disciplines through research and scholarship. Through these partnerships, UCLA develops tomorrow's leaders for a new, diverse democracy.

At UCLA, civic engagement is an institutional priority and one that Chancellor Gene Block declares, “is embedded in our teaching and research mission.”

Through the Center for Community Learning, students link community work with their undergraduate courses through service learning, community-based research, and academic internships.

UCLA also offers a minor in Civic Engagement which offers students an opportunity to develop an experiential and theoretical framework for understanding issues of community building, governance, and policy.