Programs
Connect and see how you can participate in engaged learning, teaching, and scholarship at Loyola.
We are a teaching and learning center that sits at the intersection of innovative experiential learning pedagogy, community-engaged learning, and the scholarship of engagement. Check out the CELTS 2023-2024 Impact Report here. READ MORE
Connect and see how you can participate in engaged learning, teaching, and scholarship at Loyola.
CELTS provides a number of resources for students, faculty and staff, and community partners.
There are many community-based organizations around Chicago with which Loyola students and faculty have worked.
CELTS provides a variety of faculty development programs to enhance teaching and learning strategies, to build community among faculty interested in engaged learning, and connect teaching and learning to engaged scholarship.
At Loyola University Chicago, engaging in the community and research outside the classroom is part of the curriculum. CELTS serves as a connector, convener, and catalyst for innovation in learning and teaching through community-based learning courses and high-impact learning programs.
Loyola students enrolled in Engaged Learning courses 2022-2023
In funding for undergraduate research fellowships, unpaid academic internships, and other engaged learning experiences
community partner organizations hosted Loyola students doing internships, service learning, or research project-based work
Students who are doing a variety of engaged learning experiences that are unpaid have funding opportunities to offset any financial burdens.