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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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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Commemorating History in the Present: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Luncheon
by: Sierra Romero “We failed to institutionalize our history,” said Dr. Joanne Martin, co-founder of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. After a pause, Martin continued sharing her observation of Black history and culture being lost every generation, the systemic element contributing to this erasure, and what she and
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Fall 2023: Tutorial Project’s Closing Ceremony
By: Sierra Romero On December 6th and 7th, students, family, and staff gathered in Levering Hall to celebrate the end of another successful semester of Tutorial Project. The Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project is an after-school tutoring program that provides academic support for elementary school students (grades 1-5). Elementary school tutees
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2023-24 Faculty Fellows: Get to Know Them and Their Courses
by: Sierra Romero In partnership with Hopkins faculty, the Center for Social Concern will be offering 10 community-based courses (CBL) this upcoming spring semester. Community-Based Learning is a pedagogical model that engages students, faculty, and Baltimore City Co-Educators (Community Partners, e.g. nonprofit and government agencies) in coursework and community engagement that
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