Community Engaged Learning

Students Connect to the Community

Community engaged learning is an integral part of the Rollins experience and is a vital part of a well-rounded public health education. Through community engagement, students get the chance to put public health to practice while positively affecting the community.

Students engage with the community through courses, volunteer work, faculty relationships, global field experiences, their integrative learning experience, special projects, certificates, their applied practice experience, REAL opportunities, student organizations, and more.

Community Engaged Learning

An applied practice experience is a required, 200-hour (minimum) work experience that allows students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they've learned at Rollins into a public health setting.

Community Engaged Learning

Endowed funds provide support for select student projects in which they apply knowledge they have learned in the classroom to promote health in global settings.

Community Engaged Learning

REAL is a work-study program funded by Rollins that offers eligible, full-time master's students valuable opportunities to earn while they learn.

Volunteer

Rollins students jump at every chance to volunteer, and get involved in service learning initiatives, courses, programs, and co-curricular activities that directly impact the community.

Organizational Partners

Successful community learning experiences are largely dependent on the commitment of our organizational partners. These experiences are essential for programs at Rollins that help shape a thoughtful class of global health leaders.

History of Rollins' Community Engaged Learning Initiative

Rollins' Community Engaged Learning Initiative (CELI) began in 2010 as a way to strengthen the educational experiences for MPH/MSPH students and to meet community needs in Atlanta.