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  • 2019-2020 IMPACT Report: We are Called to Innovate

    Each year the CEL publishes its annual report sharing the story of Loyola students, faculty instructors, and community partners engaging in deep learning and community development. Click the headline to explore how students, staff, and faculty have engaged Chicago and the world through experiential learning!

  • 2019-2020 Learning Portfolios

    Learning portfolios assist students in deepening critical reflections and integrate learning across course concepts, academic disciplines, and co-curricular experiences. A learning portfolio is a digital collection of students’ demonstrated knowledge, competencies, and skills represented through learning artifacts. Learning artifacts are documents or multimedia that are evidence of students’ learning and growth over time such as writing samples, research papers, reflections, photos, videos, blogs, or presentations. Click the headline to explore a selection of recent learning portfolios.

  • Learn More About Engaged Learning

    The Center for Experiential Learning is proud to support Loyola's Engaged Learning requirement - courses that provide structured learning experiences integrated in a course that engages students in learning outside the classroom, critical reflection on that experience, and synthesis of the experience through a final project or portfolio. Click the headline for more information.

  • Engaged Learning Webinar Series

    COVID-19 dramatically changed our campus experience this Spring and Summer. However, Engaged Learning is still thriving! These webinar series and course guidelines are intended to help faculty be aware and think creatively about how to approach their Engaged Learning courses with tools and help from the Center for Experiential Learning. Click the headline to see our webinars.

  • Engage Chicago and the world this fall!

    Explore the latest Engaged Learning opportunities through the Center for Experiential Learning's EXPL courses. Click the headline for a full list of CEL course offerings this fall.

  • Opportunities to Build on Engaged Learning

    Did you take a service-learning course or academic internship course? Do you have a LUROP fellowship? You can turn these experiences into MORE opportunities. Click the headline to find out how.

  • ASPIRE Scholarship: Apply now!

    The All Students Prosper If Resources Exist, or ASPIRE, Scholarship was envisioned to fill a need on campus: Increased access to important professional opportunities for undergraduate students. Student Government of Loyola Chicago, the Center for Experiential Learning, and Office of Financial Aid collaborated to develop this scholarship. ASPIRE aims to help financially in-need students complete their university mandated Engaged Learning requirement by lessening the financial burden of these often unpaid opportunities. It would be available for undergraduate students enrolled in qualifying Engaged Learning courses in the Fall, Spring, or Summer academic terms. Applications for the Fall 2020 scholarships are being accepted through August 28, 2020. Click the headline for full details on how to apply.

  • Faculty Development Programs

    The Center for Experiential Learning offers multiple programs for Loyola faculty to enhance their teaching and learning strategies in support of engaged learning. Check out current faculty development programs by clicking the headline.

  • Virtual Spring 2020 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium!

    This annual Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium: "Exploring. Connecting. Creating" virtually featured student scholarship and community engagement from April 18 through April 24, 2020. We encourage you to click to the headline to visit the eCommons to enjoy these presentations and read about this year's award recipients.

  • Student Research Opportunities Center

    The Center for Experiential Learning and the Loyola Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LUROP) launched a new resource for Loyola Faculty and Students called the Student Research Opportunity Center. This online resource will allow Loyola Faculty across the entire university to post undergraduate research opportunities, and it will allow Loyola Students to search these opportunities. In addition, Loyola students will be able to search external opportunities such as REUs, conference, publication outlets, and other undergraduate research experiences. Click on the headline to fill out the registration form.

  • Anchor Mission Initiative: Loyola’s Commitment to the Local Community

    Loyola University Chicago has committed to serving as an anchor in its local community, known as an anchor mission contributing through economic development, local capacity building, neighborhood revitalization, and community partnerships. Loyola is an active participant in the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative, a 33-member cohort of higher education institutions committed to exploring how to live its anchor mission and collecting benchmark data to identify anchor mission strategies. Click the headline to see our active involvement in supporting the local communities around our campuses.