Students, faculty and community partners can engage in a range of research opportunities, community-based projects and direct service opportunities that meet community-identified goals.
The mission of the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning, Teaching, & Engaged Scholarship is to engage faculty, staff, students and community partners in teaching, learning and engaged research that address pressing community issues. In the Jesuit tradition, and through service and research guided by principles of social justice, mutuality and reciprocity, we promote participatory experiential learning and research opportunities that foster the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources and include those affected by the issues throughout the process. Central to our practice is dialogue, reflection, co-learning and long-term commitments to participation.
To celebrate the past 25 years, the Donelan Office will mark this milestone with a series of events celebrating the many faculty, staff, student and community partnerships that have helped connect academic work at Holy Cross with meaningful engagement in Worcester and beyond.
Professor Bridget Franco and her students talk about her innovative class, Filmmaking in Spanish, which connects students with Spanish-speaking community partners.
Community partners can connect with the Donelan Office for short- and long-term volunteering opportunities, through research opportunities, and/or through short and long-term projects. Contact our office to learn more.
Browse current Community-Based Learning (CBL) courses, learn more about our leadership program, the CBL Intern Program and more through Ignite. In CBL courses, academic learning is brought to life through a range of research opportunities, community-based projects and direct service opportunities that meet community-identified needs. The CBL Interns are a select group of student leaders who have previous experience in CBL and who have a desire to build community with other students passionate about civic engagement.
The Donelan Office promotes an integrative teaching and research approach that combines academic learning in the classroom setting and research with engagement in the Worcester community. Faculty members, in conjunction with the Donelan Office, develop learning and research partnerships that meet course and scholarly objectives as well as the interests of local community organizations. These partnerships are focused on either service and/or research projects collaboratively developed with a community partner.
Our Jesuit mission calls us to be good neighbors, active community members and critically engaged, inside and outside of the classroom and research laboratories. Community-engaged teaching and research enable us to connect what happens on campus with the greater world and work collaboratively to address our world’s most pressing problems.
Director
Email: ijenkins@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 321 | Telephone: 508-793-3007
Associate Director
Email: kroumimperascani@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 322
Telephone: 508-793-3515
Assistant Director
Email: dwalch@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 323
Telephone: 508-767-5896
Administrative Assistant
Email: dgirard@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 330
Telephone: 508-793-3890 | Fax: 508-793-3945
