Center for Community Engagement

Community Engaged Courses

Community-engaged courses blend academic rigor with real-world experiences, fostering deep engagement with societal issues while enhancing student learning. These courses emphasize collaboration with community organizations, experiential learning, and critical reflection.

Community-engaged courses integrate community engagement into the curriculum, emphasizing reciprocity between students and community partners. They maintain high academic standards while addressing real-world challenges.

Faculty interested in creating a community-engaged course can collaborate with UCLA’s Center for Community Engagement (CCE). CCE can provide support to faculty:

  • Identifying partners: CCE can help identify community partners aligned with course objectives.
  • Developing syllabi: CCE can work with faculty to integrate community engagement into course content.
  • Assessment: CCE supports assessment, ensuring the course benefits both students and communities.

Learn more about developing your own course here. There are two categories of grants available to support faculty in creating community-engaged courses: community-engaged course development grants and data, justice, and society course development grants.

Social Justice Resources

CCE also provides resources to faculty interested in social justice-focused research and teaching about Los Angeles through the LA Data Justice Hub.

Undergraduate Education Initiatives

Undergraduate Education Initiatives (UEI) serves at the forefront of educational innovation. In addition to housing interdisciplinary programs like Fiat Lux Seminars and the UCLA Cluster Program, the UEI team plays a key role in the shared governance process at UCLA, working closely with the departments and faculty across campus to foster UCLA’s outstanding undergraduate curriculum.

Faculty and Shared Governance

UEI plays a critical role in the shared governance process at UCLA through which faculty and the administration work together to develop and maintain curricula that serve over 31,000 undergraduate students. The unit provides analytical guidance to the College Faculty Executive Committee, the General Education Governance Committee, the Writing II Implementation Committee and the faculty advisory committees for UEI’s academic programs. UEI works closely with the Senate’s Undergraduate Council and other offices on all matters related to ensuring quality undergraduate education policy, programming, and oversight.

Capstone Initiatives

The Capstone Initiative began in 2006 with the long-term goal of expanding the availability of undergraduate capstone experiences. Baccalaureate degree granting programs can apply either Capstone Major Certification (which requires all students completing the major to complete a capstone experience) or Capstone Program Certification (at least 60% of students completing the major can complete a capstone experience).

Learn more about the application requirements.

Undergraduate Education Administration

Accreditation Support

Staff members in the Undergraduate Education Administration unit maintain the campus’s compliance with the requirements of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). Learn more about WSCUC Accreditation here.  Collaborators include the Undergraduate Education Initiatives unit, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Division of Graduate Education, and the Academic Senate.

Human Resources

The human resources team supports the Division of Undergraduate Education with recruitment and hiring, employee onboarding, employee relations, benefits inquiries, compensation and payroll among other duties.

HR also supports students working on-campus within DUE roles.

Helpful HR Resources:

For more information or specific questions, contact your HR representative.

Finance

The Finance team plays a central role in supporting DUE’s mission by effectively managing its financial resources, optimizing financial performance, and ensuring accountability and compliance. The finance department provides support for the entire division by:

  • Administering grants
  • Fund management
  • Scholarship distribution, endowments and regular funds
  • Finance support for faculty and staff

If you have any questions, please contact your finance representative.

Undergraduate Education Information Technology (UIT)

The Undergraduate Education Information Technology office (UIT) provides innovative, collaborative and financially sustainable IT services to the Division of Undergraduate Education and the greater UCLA campus. In addition to providing routine IT support, UIT can also assist with recommendations and purchasing of all hardware, software, and services.

You can request help through the UIT Helpdesk Portal or by calling (310-206-4525) or emailing (helpdesk@college.ucla.edu) the UIT Helpdesk.

Additional IT support on campus provided by UCLA IT Services and Student Affairs IT.

Undergraduate Research Support

The Undergraduate Research Centers provide resources for Faculty conducting research with undergraduate students resources include: 

  • Information on Student Research Program SRP-99 Courses
  • Instructions and recommendations for recruiting undergraduate students
  • Information on paying student researching including work-study positions
  • Teaching and mentoring resources

Visit the URC-Sciences or URC-Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences website for more information.