Who Are We?
What is the Center for Leadership and Civic Education?
The Center engages FSU students, staff and faculty in community-based learning through service. For students, the Center serves as the campus clearinghouse for service opportunities in the Big Bend area and beyond. For faculty and staff, the Center assists with strategies to connect community service to classroom curriculum through its service learning program.
The Center provides community service opportunities for students and faculty, promotes the linking of service to the curriculum, and collaborates with community-based organizations on community improvement projects and programs throughout Florida and beyond. Thus, the Center aims to enhance the educational outcomes of Florida students with respect to civic responsibility, foster community-based scholarship, improve the well being of the communities that the University reaches, and promote the good will of the University among its constituents.
On the FSU Campus
Through various student-led Outreach Projects, students develop a greater sense of the social problems in the Tallahassee community. Several student organizations that focus on community service such as Alternative Break Corps, First Responders Unit, FSU Service Corps, Habitat for Humanity and International Medical Outreach call the Center home. America Reads is a favorite program among students who wish to mentor children in the Leon County School District. The Center also houses the Service Scholar Program, in which high school seniors with exemplary records of service are selected to receive a scholarship and continue their service throughout their time at FSU. For students seeking curriculum-based service, the Center works with faculty to expand and support service learning course offerings.
Throughout Florida
The Center for Leadership and Civic Education is home to several statewide programs that promote and strengthen student service, service-learning and civic engagement throughout all levels of education in Florida. The Center created the Florida Alliance for Student Service (FASS) to enable Florida Campus Compact (for which FSU is the host institution), the Florida Community Higher Education School Partnership, Florida Learn and Serve and Florida VISTA to work cooperatively to multiply the resources and increase the capacity for schools and colleges to develop active citizens.