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The CSC operates as a student led center that works to centralize service opportunities for OSU students, faculty, and staff. The CSC provides direct programming support and services to develop community wide projects that intentionally promote student learning, personal development and inclusion of all communities. The CSC works in partnership with campus organizations as well as the surrounding community to create relationships that focus on collaboration around civic service.  The CSC is focused on providing meaningful service and education to further enhance the OSU experience. 

What We Do:

The CSC connects OSU students, faculty, and staff to meaningful service learning opportunities that enhance our surrounding community. 

We Provide:

  • Experiential learning

  • Campus wide service opportunities focused on community building

  • Programming consultation for service groups

  • Individual service consultation to assist people in finding areas of passion

  • Networking between the OSU campus and surrounding community

  • Service learning education and reflection

Past Service Projects:

  • Alternative Spring Break Trip “The Oregon Tour”

  • Willamette Park restoration project

  • OSU FeelGood weekly sandwich fundraiser: End World Hunger

  • Biking for Justice

  • Healthy Habits Day

  • Peace Jam Service Project Coordination 

People get involved with service for unique and varied reasons and there are numerous benefits.

  

The experience of getting involved with your communities through service may allow you to:  

  • Develop friendships and a stronger sense of community

  • Feel a sense of belonging and accomplishment

  • Deepen your understanding of complex social, environmental, and political issues

  • Challenge you to explore your values and points of view

  • Provide the opportunity for greater self awareness (emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually)

  • Allow you to build relationships with people from diverse backgrounds

  • Bring alive course content and provide you with an opportunity to connect what you learn in the classroom (theory) with the rest of the world (practice)

  • Be an outlet for your creativity and initiative

  • Provide you with experiences and opportunities for the development of leadership and technical skills and professional networks and contacts

  • Assist you with career decision making

  • Prepare you for post-graduate work

  • Offer you unique experiences that are attractive to employers and graduate schools; resume building