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Jandon Center for Community Engagement

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Advancing Social Equity and Supporting Healthy Communities

The Jandon Center engages faculty, students and community partners on social-change projects that tackle community-driven goals. Through experiential learning and scholarship, students build essential capacities in critical thinking while providing significant leadership on urgent, complex issues facing communities and society.

Explore the Jandon Center

Exterior photo of Wright Hall, Smith College
About the Center
Smith student teaching Vietnamese to school children
Community-Based Learning & Research
Community service volunteer with child
Community Service
Two high school students looking at a syrninge at the Summer Science & Engineering Program at Smith
STEM Outreach
Project Coach Yesenia works with new and returning coaches
Urban Education
Smith student standing in a child's classroom where she volunteers
Special Projects

Making a Difference in the Community

By the Numbers

200+ Smith students provide 10,000 hours of community service per year. 100+ students partner with 10 local agencies on volunteer projects. 200+ students support STEM teaching in K-12 schools, adult literacy programs and nonprofits. 45 students are placed in apprenticeships in 5 major cities and the Pioneer Valley.

Jandon Center Events

Featured Event
Oct
24

Lecture by Avila Kilmurray

  • Seelye 201, 5-6:30 pm.

  • Avila Kilmurray speaks on Community Activism in a Contested Society: The Story of Northern Ireland

Oct
28

Springfield Bound

Nov
4

Holyoke Bound

  • Peck Full Service Community School, 1916 Northampton St., Holyoke, MA, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

  • For more information and to register, visit the Five Colleges website. Registration deadline is November 1.

Contact

Jandon Center for Community Engagement

Wright Hall
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3060
Fax: 413-585-3068
Email: jcce@smith.edu