Community Engagement

Simmons Community Engagement facilitates and promotes community-based learning and develops strategic partnerships to advance learning, promote civic engagement, and enhance community involvement in order to create a more just society.

Learning that changes lives.

For more than 100 years, Simmons University has inspired its students to combine learning with action for a more just and equitable world. Today, Simmons Community Engagement takes the lead in advancing this commitment to visionary education and civic engagement by building on our strengths as a women-centered college and our commitment to leadership development.

The office works closely with nearly 60 community-based organizations to provide opportunities for student-leadership and community benefit. Whether it's tackling social justice issues such as the education achievement gap, mentoring girls for advancement and success, or becoming a pen pal to a middle-school student, we offer our entire campus a variety of ways to get involved, among them, stimulating service-learning courses and exciting all-University signature initiatives.

Through reciprocal partnerships with community-based organizations, Simmons Community Engagement aims to:

  1. Broaden and deepen community-based learning at Simmons.
  2. Support faculty in their goals to expand community-based research.
  3. Cultivate a readiness for civic agency in our students.
  4. Promote women’s leadership and girls advancement and success.
  5. Develop engaged and socially responsible leaders.

Recent Reports

Meghan Doran

Director of Community Engagement

Courtney Kramer

Assistant Director of Community Engagement

Dara Starkman

Jumpstart Site Manager