Community Engaged Learning

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) integrates classroom instruction with real-world impact. Students apply course concepts to real-world challenges, working in partnership with nonprofit organizations to co-create solutions that address community needs.

CEL is an experiential approach grounded in socio-cultural learning theory, and promotes active, reflective learning through hands-on engagement. Students develop professional identities, build networks, and strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills in authentic contexts.

CEL prepares students not just for jobs, but for leadership in shaping tomorrow's solutions.

Serve IT’s mission is to apply the technology skills of undergraduate students in order to build capacity in the local nonprofit community to better serve their own missions.

The Serve IT Nonprofit Clinic is housed in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and is a joint project with the Kelley School of Business and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington.

We provide internship credits to students who want to work together to use their skills to make our local community a better place.