Welcome to the Center for Civic Engagement's public Canvas page, which serves as a companion site to our Salem State University webpage. Here you will find additional resources and archives for most of our programming, events and research. If you have any questions, you can contact us through one of our channels below. Please click on one of the images below to read more about our recent achievements:

The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) is the nexus for community-based initiatives, civic learning, and public engagement at Salem State University, a Carnegie Community Engagement-classified university. The CCE defines communities to include geographic, identity, and issue-based communities among others. We embrace Salem State’s institutional values of equity, partnership, and collaboration by promoting equitable and sustainable relationships and engaging campus and community members and organizations to examine and address the important social, political, economic, and environmental issues of our time. The Center’s programming provides opportunities for civic learning, political engagement, and advocacy that are consistent with the mission of public higher education and strengthens students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members as agents of change.

The center focuses on four core areas:

Advocacy

Community Engagement

Civic Learning

Political Engagement

Through reciprocal collaborations designed to address public issues and enhance academic learning, the Center promotes the importance of community involvement and the privileges and responsibilities inherent in civic participation. To accomplish this, the Center focuses on four main areas, the result of which can be seen through micro- and macro-level social change. The Center for Civic Engagement is an integral member of a wider community that supports student learning, faculty and staff engagement, and meaningful social, political, and economic change by encouraging civic learning, democratic participation, and social responsibility.

Are you looking for a community volunteer or political internship opportunity? Please visit our Public Engagement Internship and Volunteer Opportunities page.

Please click here to view the CCE and Berry IOP Newsletter Archive

Please click here to view the CCE Strategic Plan 2021-2024

Staff

Cynthia Lynch, Executive Director, clynch@salemstate.edu

Katelyn Adams, CCE Assistant Director, kadams@salemstate.edu

Samantha Giffen, Berry IOP Assistant Director, sgiffen@salemstate.edu

Megan Murphy, CCE Faculty Fellow, mmurphy4@salemstate.edu