The Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (OSLCE) will host a community engagement forum and service-learning showcase Monday, April 29, in the Joe Crowley Student Union.

The community engagement forum will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Great Room on the fourth floor. The event invites student, faculty, staff and community members together to have a collaborative dialogue around issues in Reno in order to discuss community needs and how those needs can be addressed.

“We are excited to get everyone together in one room to show how much their voices matter,” Samantha Bickert, administrative assistant for OSLCE, said. “We truly want to know how we can better serve our students and stakeholders.”

The service-learning showcase has joined with the Pack Internship Grant Program poster reception. The event will allow attendees to view students’ posters, which encapsulate their work over the semester, and ask students questions about their work. This event will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Milt Glick Ballroom.

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“The showcase highlights how students made an impact in their community, which is very heartwarming to me,” Bickert said. “It displays how the students have grown and challenged themselves – the interpersonal connections that they’ve made between content and the service that they did is very powerful.”

This past academic year, more than 2,000 students and 150 community partners have been a part of 26 service-learning and civic engagement attributed courses. These projects are helpful in potentially attaining the University's goal to achieve the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.

The OSLCE collaborated with Nevada Volunteers, Career Studio and the Center for Student Engagement in order to host these events. Both events are free and open to the public. Snacks and drinks will be provided.