Resources

For Faculty/Staff

The Office of Community Engagement encourages all FIU faculty to integrate service-learning into their courses.

• The Center for Advancement of Teaching offers a popular service-learning workshop focusing attention on the topic.

• Students often seek faculty guidance regarding volunteer opportunities. The university maintains a Community Partnerships Database of projects that have a strong community-engagement component. Please use this database when helping students identify an opportunity that will result in a positive experience for our student, the organization and our community.

For Students

We encourage our students to serve communities throughout South Florida, the nation and the world. Service learning is a great way to meet new people and make the most of your college experience. It will also help you increase job skills and knowledge at the same time that you’re working with community members, contributing to positive change.

• Service-Learning: FIU offers a variety of service learning programs at FIU:

Alternative Breaks (aB)
aB is one of FIU's largest service-led organizations. Each year Alternative Breaks selects more than 22 different locations across the globe to perform strong direct service towards many social issues affecting our global community. With more than 240 participants and 48 site leaders, Alternative Breaks is committed to changing the world one break at a time.

Academy of Leaders (AOL)
The Academy of Leaders is FIU's largest emerging leadership development program. It's a structured leadership development certification program for students. AOL teaches leadership competencies through educational seminars, experiential exercises, and practical application. AOL has grown into several tracks that provide leadership development for athletes, greeks and the FIU student community.

Leaders in Residence
"Leaders in Residence" is dedicated to exploring personal leadership styles and values experienced through a living/learning community. Through educational programs, mentoring experiences, community-service involvement and cooperative living, students will develop valuable lifelong skills.

ENGAGE
A bi-weekly one-hour workshop series addressing practical leadership skill building through interactive exercises and information.

BBC Learning About Leadership Lunch Series
The “Learning About Leadership” lunch series is designed to promote and facilitate constructive dialogue and interaction between students, key university officials and community leaders.

FIU Offices and Centers

The Center for Leadership and Service provides students with developmental and experiential opportunities that foster leadership and community involvement through leadership education, service learning, advocacy and volunteerism.

The Office of Career Services facilitates and provides access to paid and unpaid internships and employment opportunities for students with local, national and global employers.

The Office of Multicultural Programs and Services provides a wide breadth of culturally enriching events for FIU and the South Florida community.

The Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business Administration works with emerging companies to develop entrepreneurial leaders and improve the economic vitality of South Florida and the Americas.

The Applied Research Center harnesses FIU's applied research and technology base to solve real-world problems through multidisciplinary collaborations with researchers, academia, government, private sector and industry partners.

The Metropolitan Center in the School of International and Public Affairs delivers information and expertise to decision makers, community leaders and citizens of South Florida as they seek to forge solutions to urban problems.

The Center for Diversity in the College of Engineering and Computing offers multiple educational programs such as tutoring, teacher training, mentorship, career and college awareness seminars, research experiences and internship opportunities targeting local K-16 grade-level students to increase gender and racial/ethnic diversity and foster greater social mobility for students.

A variety of in-house clinics in the College of Law, including the Carlos Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, Education Advocacy Clinic, and Immigrant Children's Justice Clinic, provide access to legal advice and assistance to indigent and underserved clients in the South Florida community.

The Institute for Hospitality and Tourism Research in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management provides educational and research opportunities including certificate programs, symposia, roundtables, travel experiences and other interactive events that link the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management to students and members of the hospitality, tourism and travel communities at the local, state, national and international levels.

The Office of Global Learning Initiatives facilitates the development, design and implementation of Global Learning courses and coordinates with the Division of Student Affairs for the integration of student co-curricular activities in the courses.

The Center for Leadership in the College of Business Administration conducts cutting-edge research in the area of leadership development and develops and delivers innovative leadership programs assisting organizations in our community and beyond.

NeighborhoodHELP™, features interdisciplinary teams of FIU students working with families to track and monitor their health. Each team works with 1-2 households and includes a medical student and his or her counterpart in social work, nursing and public health. College of Medicine leaders are not aware of any other program in the country that offers students the opportunity to follow households for four years in their homes, providing unedited glimpses into the lives of the uninsured and under-insured.

The South Florida News Service provides unparalleled opportunities for students studying print, video and multimedia journalism to work with editors of South Florida’s three daily newspapers as part of a novel, content-sharing system that allows participating students to get their stories published in print and online.