About Us

CCSL Vision

St. Norbert College and its students will be full partners with the Brown County community in the work to promote the Common Good ¹ and to create Communio ² in this area.  Through that experience, St. Norbert College students commit to lifelong service.

CCSL Mission

The Center for Community Service & Learning seeks to deepen the experience of Communio by:

• Supporting members of the College in their service efforts
• Promoting transformative student learning   
• Addressing real community needs   
• Building relationships of mutuality
• Working for the Common Good

We do so inspired by our Catholic, liberal arts, and Norbertine traditions.

CCSL Goals

The Center for Community Service and Learning will:

• Serve as a resource to SNC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and supporters interested in community service, particularly as it impacts student learning, by providing guidance, best practice tools, occasions for reflection, and access to opportunities for community engagement.
• Strengthen relationships with Brown County partners working for the common good, making available college resources to support those efforts.
• Develop the College’s capacity to serve the Common Good by fostering campus-wide discussion on service, promoting community engagement, assessing the progress of the work of the Center, and recognizing significant College contributions to serving the common good in Brown County and beyond.

¹The common good is “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.”  (From the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World in Vatican II, the Basic Sixteen Documents, Austin Flannery, OP; Northport, NY:  Costello Publishing Company, 1996; 26.  As quoted on the University of Dayton web site.)
²"Communio . . . is characterized by mutual esteem, trust, sincerity, faith and responsibility... is lived through open dialogue, communication, consultation and collaboration . . . (and) encourages us to respond individually and collectively to the needs of our local and global communities."  (St. Norbert College Mission Statement)