The Community-Engaged Learning Office (CELO) serves as a bridge for academic engagement with our surrounding environment. We cultivate relationships of reciprocity with people and places in Shanghai and greater China while combining academic learning with community-based research and service. Our staff facilitate and support courses, students, and faculty who wish to incorporate community engagement into their academic teaching and learning practices.
We organize events to connect faculty, students, and staff with community-based topics, experts, and places to foster learning connections and potential future collaborations for research and teaching. Below are some examples:
- Learning to Honor Every Story: A 'Slow Storytelling' Workshop in China Focuses on Human Connections
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Exploring Qiantan with CEL
- NYU Shanghai Students Explore Qiantan Neighborhood through “Food and Design”
- NYU Shanghai Students Document Home through ‘Slow Storytelling’
Faculty Resources
We offer consultations for faculty on ways to integrate community-based resources, trips,and projects into courses. Email shanghai.cel@nyu.edu for an appointment and see additional tools and resources developed by practitioners around the world to help instructors plan for community engagement.
Academic Service-Learning Courses
Service-learning courses offer students the unique opportunity to serve the needs of local communities through applying academic studies. See here for examples.
Faculty-Led Immersive Learning Trips
The Office of Community Engaged Learning partners with faculty to design learning trips around China. These trips connect academic topics with place-based experiential learning about the people, history, culture and environment of local communities. Click here for more information and examples of trips.
College and Career Lab (CCL)
We run a service-learning summer camp for migrant youth in collaboration with local NGOs, Assistant Professor of Psychology Lixian Cui, and NYU Steinhardt Associate of International Education Professor Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, a founding team member of NYU’s College and Career Lab in New York. More information can be found here: Building Dreams and Breaking Barriers: NYU Shanghai Hosts Summer Camp for Migrant Youth