Mobilize your knowledge and address critical societal issues within local and global community organizations and not-for-profits. Engage in meaningful opportunities that help meet community-defined needs, while enhancing your learning, civic engagement, and personal and professional goals. Hands-on, practical experience and learning allow you to put your skills to use, shaping the city and world you live in.
Earn course credit while engaging with the community
Bring your ideas & insights to an organization
Develop your network through community collaborations
Ways to engage
Curricular
Curricular CEL integrates a placement and/or project into the requirements. Our campus offers 29+ CEL courses across various faculties and disciplines, and our network includes 194+ community partners.
Through term-based projects and placements, CEL will help you expand your skillset, taking your learning beyond the classrom.
Discover how you can engage with local organizations and earn credit toward your degree, while contributing to your community.
Co-Curricular
Co-Curricular CEL experiences allow students to participate in a variety of service-learning and volunteer roles within diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic contexts.
Examples of opportunities include Impact Experience, Western Serves Network. Give back to London and the world, connect your skills and talents with our offerings.
Connect Locally
Our local network of over 226+ partners
Whether one-hour of service volunteering with a not-for-profit, one-day commitments like O-Serves, or one-term projects, our London and surrounding community is here connect you with a network of community-minded individuals like you. Collaborate in London today.
Engage Globally (Impact Experience)
The world is out there. Make an impact and explore the global opportunities available to you.
Connecting campus with distant communities needs through service, gain fresh perspectives, and increase your global awareness. Travel and add an international CEL experience to your time at Western.
Get involved through co-curricular international opportunities such as an Impact Experience, or the many offerings provided by Western International.
Our Students in Action
Discover how our students are engaging with communities in London and around the world.
Still unsure? Contact us today!
