Student Spotlight: Adriana Tobar

As RCCL’s programs expand to all corners of the campus and throughout the neighborhoods of Rochester, our office team is expanding, too! In addition to two new full-time staff positions,…

A collaboration between the Rochester Center for Community Leadership, the Dean of the College, and AS&E academic programs, the Community-Engaged Scholarship Program supports students, faculty, and community partners to combine…

The Teen Health and Success Partnership at the University of Rochester is looking for dedicated college students to volunteer with students from the Rochester City School District. Volunteers will: Tutor…

Attention, graduate students! Rochester Center for Community Leadership has a Graduate Assistant (GA) opening available immediately. The Community GA’s primary responsibilities will include undergraduate student organization advising (with the support…

By Sarah Burns, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow Everyone recognizes that poverty exists. It is a fact that we live with, discuss, and something that many people ignore or look…

By Rhaia Hull, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow Poverty is a unique phenomenon. It seems to be something everyone in our country has an opinion on, but yet is only…

By Lauren Sava, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow Starting off my year as an AmeriCorps VISTA/Rochester Youth Year (RYY) Fellow, I was no stranger to the poverty statistics in Rochester.…

by Taylor Cook, 2014-2015 Rochester Youth Year Fellow  Rochester, New York – a city notorious for its incredibly low graduation rates and its incredibly high levels of poverty. These statistics…

The following is a guest blog post by UR student MaryAnna Krewson, who serves as a tutor with RCCL’s LEAP program and as an academic coach with TOUR.  This summer I…

The following entry is adapted from remarks given to new students of the University by Glenn Cerosaletti, as the students prepared to embark upon Wilson Day, a day of service,…