
RCCL changing name to Center for Community Engagement
The Rochester Center for Community Leadership’s new name reflects the center’s focus on connections with community partners.

University earns first Community Engagement Classification from Carnegie Foundation
Rochester is among 119 colleges and universities to receive the elective designation that indicates institutional commitment to community engagement.

International Education Week Speakers Series: ‘Conversations with Women Who Lead’
Doris Gray, of the Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment at Al Akhawayn University, and author Monica Sharma, an authority on transformational leadership, will speak on global issues of equity and access to health and education.

Competition supports student community outreach
Now in its third year, the Community Engagement Challenge encourages student organizations to propose a charitable outreach program that benefits the greater Rochester community.

Wilson Day celebrates 30 years of community engagement
More than 1,300 incoming students will fan out to about 90 Rochester schools, libraries, senior centers, neighborhood associations, and more to paint, stack bookshelves, rake, pull weeds, and begin to get involved in their new community.

Rochester Youth Year making an impact after 10 years
For the past decade, more than 100 graduates of Rochester-area colleges have spent their first year out of school working to alleviate poverty in the local community through the University’s Rochester Youth Year program.

RCCL allows students to engage, learn outside the classroom
The Rochester Center for Community Leadership was created in 2005 to put University student community engagement programs under one umbrella. In 12 years, it’s become a pretty big umbrella.

Wilson Day is rite of autumn for first-year students
Wilson Day enables first-year students to learn about the Rochester community during orientation, as they help out at nearly 100 local agencies, including schools, churches, nursing homes, museums, and more.

A different kind of college TOUR
A partnership between the University and local community organizations, the TOUR program has made a college experience accessible to hundreds of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

First-year students fan across community on Wilson Day
More than 1,400 first-year students fanned out to 94 sites—schools, churches, libraries, museums, senior centers and more—to learn more about their new home and to help community organizations.