Civic engagement is taking place in academic coursework no matter your discipline or major. Below are a just a few highlights from different departments.
- Agriculture & Veterinary Technology
- Provide medical care for local shelter animals including spaying and neutering, ultimately making the animals more adoptable.
- Organize dairy and livestock shows, consignment sales, judging competitions, and agricultural skills contests to educate the community.
- Architecture & Design
Engage in a semester-long community planning project in partnership with a local community. This includes completing a site analysis, organizing a community design charrette, and presenting a conceptual vision plan.
- Automotive Trades
- Offer a Car Care Awareness Day program providing free check-up services, car wash, and education on proper automotive care to the local community.
- Building Trades
- Engage in week long lab experience on Long Island applying skills to help residents recover from Superstorm Sandy devastation.
- Business Department
- Develop a master plan for the Italian city of Sorrento to improve tourist revenue in collaboration with architecture students.
- Participate in a national veteran’s oral history project using court reporting methods and equipment. Oral accounts of service are collected and donated to the Library of Congress.
- Civil Engineering Technology
- Surveying senior project course provides support to community organizations.
- Computer & Information Technology
- Develop and launch a new Website for Allegany Senior Foundation.
- Culinary Arts
- Students participate in Douglass Day community engagement, creating themed cakes that are shared with wider community as part of an international initiative dedicated to digitally archiving and preserving Black History on Fredrick Douglass' birthday.
- Digital Media and Animation
Directed study enables students to work within non-profit organizations applying skills to support community efforts.
- Electrical Trades
- Students designed and installed the first solar-powered irrigation system at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC.
- English and Humanities
- Formally present ideas and strategies for fundraising activities to a selected local non-profit organization.
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology
- Designed and created Basic Utility Vehicle donated for use as a mobile library in the African country of Congo.
- Nursing
- Pay It Forward program encourages students to live out the caring aspect of the curriculum.
- Complete community needs assessment and delivers health education opportunities.
- Physical and Life Sciences
- invites 4th-12th grade students from throughout the region to participate in an annual Science Fair hosted on Alfred State campus
- Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Develop comprehensive fundraising plans for local non-profit organizations.
- Engage in semester long internship supporting programming and mission of human service organizations.
