Jandon Center for Community Engagement
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.
AmeriCorps VISTA Opportunity
AmeriCorps VISTA applications are currently being accepted for a STEM Outreach VISTA position at the Jandon Center beginning in August 2018. This position is co-administered by the Jandon Center and the Campus Compact of Southern New England. The main goal of the position is to implement and improve specific social and educational outcomes in public schools. See the STEM Outreach VISTA job description and application information.
Making a Difference in the Community
By the Numbers
Jandon Center Events
Jandon Center Orientation
- Wright Hall 013, 7–9 p.m.
The Jandon Center for Community Engagement creates and supports opportunities for students and faculty to engage in experiential learning and scholarship that connects their academic passions with the vibrant and diverse communities surrounding Smith College. This orientation is designed to provide volunteers in all of Jandon’s various programs the opportunity to learn more about our center and staff, and to explore best practices in community engagement. Orientation begins with an online module, followed by a 2.5-hour group basic training for volunteers as well as opportunities for ongoing professional development and deeper dives into our primary best practices for community based research. We’ll cover: Mentoring 101: Building Developmental Relationships; Asset-Based Approach to People and Communities; and Cultural Humility.
Please register.
Mindfulness Week with Kaira Jewel Lingo
- Jandon Center for Community Engagement
- Details will be forthcoming. Learn more about Kaira Jewel Lingo.
Public Day of Mindfulness with Kaira Jewel Lingo
- Jandon Center for Community Engagement
- Details will be forthcoming. Learn more about Kaira Jewel Lingo.
A Maker Place Called School: A Lecture by Larry Rosenstock
- Graham Hall, 6 p.m.
Rosenstock is the founder of High Tech High, an integrated network of 14 charter schools serving more than 5,000 students in grades K–12 across four campuses.