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The Center for Social Concern is the student life office dedicated to community service and civic engagement and is under the umbrella of Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Student Affairs (HSA). Other HSA student life divisions include The Office of Student Activities, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Office of Greek Life, and the Homewood Arts Program.
Our Mission
The Center for Social Concern emphasizes the value of service with others, rather than the commonly accepted concept of service to others. The volunteer and client enter into an educational process where both benefit from the interaction and reciprocal learning is the common ground for all of our initiatives. Our programs and efforts are striving to create a "better community" in and around the Johns Hopkins campus.
Specifically, the CSC:
Houses approximately 70 community service groups that perform direct service to the Baltimore Community (NOTE: the Office of Student Activities administers all the other student groups on campus)
Oversees the JHU Tutorial Project, an in-house tutoring program for Baltimore area elementary school students.
Oversees the Community Impact Internships Program (CIIP), recruiting, selecting and supporting 50 undergraduate interns for community-based summer internships in Baltimore nonprofits and government agenciesProvides seed money for individual students who wish to coordinate community-based programming in Baltimore
Administers a community-based Federal Work Study program
Serves as a resource for students, faculty, and community organizations who want to develop community-based learning (CBL) opportunities Assists student social entrepreneurs via the Hopkins Social Innovation Program (HOP-SIP).
For more information on opportunities at the Center for Social Concern, please visit them at http://www.jhu.edu/csc/