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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!
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  Virtual Spring 2021 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium!

  The annual Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium: "Persevering in a Virtual World" will virtually feature student scholarship and community engagement from April 24 through April 30, 2021. We encourage you to click to the headline to visit the eCommons to submit your presentation by April 19, 2021, sign up to become an evaluator, and enjoy last year's presentations!

• Spring 2021 Engaged Learning Courses

  The Center for Experiential Learning is excited to share the Engaged Learning courses for the Spring 2021 semester available to undergraduates during registration! Click on the headline to see dozens and dozens of Academic Internship, Undergraduate Research, and Service-Learning courses the satisfy the undergraduate Engaged Learning credit.

• EXPL Courses for Spring 2021

  The CEL is home to four Experiential Learning (EXPL) courses during the Spring 2021 semester. Each of the EXPL courses offers opportunities in service-learning, academic internships, and undergraduate research and meets the Engaged Learning University requirement! Click the headline to see all of the EXPL course offerings this spring.
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  ASPIRE Scholarship

  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. In the Spring semesters, six applicants will be awarded a scholarship of $1,500 to be applied to their tuition balance. Click the image to review eligibility requirements, to access the application, and to read about the Fall 2020 recipients! Applications for Spring 2021 open November 2, 2020.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.