Center for Social Concern
Center for Social Concern
Situated within JHU Student Affairs, the Center for Social Concern (CSC) focuses on student development through community engagement. The CSC collaborates with Baltimore City organizations, Hopkins Faculty, and other Campus Partners to curate community-based programming that helps equip our students to be engaged and responsible members of their community.
Learn more about the CSC here.
Involvement with the Center for Social Concern
The CSC has a variety of opportunities to engage with our office and Baltimore City. We offer programs and internships that span from a summer to yearlong. Browse through some of these here.
The CSC also works with faculty members every year to co-design Community-Based Learning (CBL) courses that students can find on SIS. When logged in, look up the tag, “CSC-CE.”
If these opportunities do not work with your schedule, consider looking through Hopkins Engage for more community engagement opportunities.
Hopkins Engage
Hopkins Engage, powered by GivePulse, is the university’s community engagement platform. Here, JHU students, staff, and faculty to connect directly with Baltimore community partners and other community-engaged campus departments. Volunteer opportunities and other community engagement opportunities are posted and continuously updated here.
The platform provides easy search function for you to connect directly with organizations and projects you care about! Any Hopkins affiliate can log in through single sign-on with your JHED ID. Start connecting by becoming a member of JHU and the Center for Social Concern.
Have questions? Please email [email protected].
News & Announcements
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Exploring Baltimore’s Public Health Landscape: The B’More Intersession Course
By: Cameron Moore The B’More Intersession course, “Public Health and Baltimore’s Human Experience,” offers students a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of public health and urban life. The B’More course is designed not only to educate students about public health but also to inspire them to get involved in
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Tutorial Project Wraps Up Semester with Fall 2024 Closing Ceremony: Lasting Impact on Youth Learning through Tutoring
By: Cameron Moore Johns Hopkins University’s Tutorial Project, founded in 1958, has been providing personalized academic support to elementary school students in the Baltimore area for over six decades. The program offers tutoring in reading and math to students in grades 1 through 5. This semester, nearly 120 children participated,
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Hopkins Votes Hosts Election Day Events to Encourage Students’ Civic Participation: March to the Polls and Election Night Watch Party
By: Cameron Moore On Election Day, Tuesday, November 5, Johns Hopkins University students gathered at the Beach on JHU’s Homewood Campus, pizza in hand, ready to make their voices heard. Two Hopkins Votes Ambassadors, Arionna Bell and Elizabeth Zuerblis, led about 25 other students in a March to the Polls,
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CIIP Concludes 2024 Summer Internship Program with Annual Closing Ceremony
By: Cameron Moore The Community Impact Internship Program (CIIP) is the Center for Social Concern’s paid summer internship initiative that connects Johns Hopkins University (JHU) undergraduate students with nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Baltimore City. This program offers an intensive, cohort-based learning environment. This year, 50 undergraduate students and
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Bridging Communities through Baltimore First: A Conversation with Amanda Ferber
By: Sierra Romero “Baltimore First opened my eyes to the different realities that people in America have,” says Johns Hopkins University student Amanda Ferber. “Sometimes we got a little off topic and played games and told stories, but I feel like those moments are sort of the point of the
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2024 Spring Community-Based Learning Courses Have Begun
by: Sierra Romero On January 30th, 25 students spent the morning learning about what their spring would be like to take a Community-based learning (CBL) course. Community-based learning is a pedagogical model that engages students, faculty, and Baltimore City Co-Educators in creating courses that support academic learning and community engagement
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