Interested in engaging with the local community? Looking for classes that incorporate community-based learning? Want to get involved, but aren’t sure how to get started?

The Center for Community Engagement maintains sustained relationships with local community partners and supports a variety of courses designed to address community challenges and advance the greater good.

Through this work, students and faculty have the opportunity to learn and engage with a range of interests. To aid in your search, we have categorized offerings and opportunities into the action areas below.

If you do not see an opportunity or resource that suits you, we’ll help you find one or build your own! Contact CCE staff at cce@amherst.edu for support.

The single best way to make change is be the changemaker, and to do that, you have to be in the room, or support those who are in the room. The world needs you.”   
—Governor Maura Healey, "Democracy and the Greater Good" remarks at Amherst College