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Students are often encouraged to volunteer while in university, but the true impact of such work isn’t always recognized. What if volunteering could directly support your learning, align with your goals and help shape your career?

Frequently taking a back seat to paid experience, community engagement is often neglected by students. Yet far from just a hobby, volunteering is now a real tool to break into the workforce and develop skills employers are looking for. That’s the takeaway from speaking with students who volunteer and professionals in the area.

This inspiring story about women-only sports, inclusive fitness opportunities, and student-led initiatives, highlights the powerful impact student-led projects can have when the right support is provided.

The Michaëlle Jean Community Engagement Awards at the University of Ottawa highlight individuals who go above and beyond in applying academic learning to real community needs through the Community Service Learning (CSL) program.

This report evaluates the Community Service Learning (CSL) and Extracurricular Volunteering (EV) programs at the University of Ottawa, focusing on their outcomes on community partners and end-beneficiaries, and on the factors facilitating or inhibiting the sustainability of positive outcomes. Initiated in July 2023 by the Ottawa Community Engagement team, the evaluation was conducted by Julie Prud...

Youth Leadership for Change microgrants support inspiring student projects at the University of Ottawa.

Congratulations to social sciences student Jenn Wani for earning a Pathy Foundation Fellowship!

Dr. Claire Tugault-Lafleur is a Nutrition professor in the Faculty of Health Science. She has been offering group placements to her students as part of the Community Service Learning (CSL) program for almost 3 years. When asked what motivates her to continue offering CSL, she stated that students not only gain valuable transferable skills; but they are also given the opportunity to personalize the...

Dr. Venkateswaran livened up the syllabus by giving students the opportunity to participate in a CSL placement with Let’s Talk Science, an initiative that gets postsecondary science students and professionals to visit youth in classrooms to get them interested in science.

Dr. Jeffry Quan is a Psychology professor in the Faculty of Social Science. He has been offering individual CSL placements in Social Motivation (PSY 3109) to his students for seven semesters. Jeffry has worked with many different community partners. Most of the placements involve students working in person, individually and directly with organizations such as LiveWorkPlay, Lowertown Community Reso...