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JOIN US

CE Fellows Cohort

Join a 2025 Community Engagement Fellows Cohort!

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Retreats

Venture to our place-based retreats. These are gatherings that bring together an even wider array of people for shared learning and partnership-building. To date, they have ranged in length from a half-day to three days.

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WWU Food Systems Collective Cohort

Join a winter CE Fellows cohort focused on advancing a more sustainable and just food system.

Led by WWU student Sam Schmidt.

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STUDENTS IN COMMUNITY 

Cultivate community with other WWU students through the Students in Community program.

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URBAN FARMING

Learn about your local food systems. You can sign up to get your hands dirty at a work party, and explore our community agriculture projects!

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SPRING BREAK 2026

Spring Break 'Stay Connected' is a series of gatherings during WWU Spring Break,

March 23rd - March 26th,  designed to help students stay connected through community building events, local exploration, and shared meals.

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FORUMS

Discover Community Engagement Forums. Free and open to the public.

Their purpose is to build stronger and more interwoven networks of people working on poignant issues of the present.

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HOW IT WORKS

Explore sustainable food sources to our recycling process and so much more! Join us in better understanding the systems that support our communities. 

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ONLINE DESIGN CLINICS

Contribute your wisdom to help people move forward with challenges in their community-based work.

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Our programming takes place on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed, from time immemorial. We express our deepest respect and gratitude for our indigenous neighbors, particularly the Lummi Nation and Nooksack Tribe, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.

(For more information: WWU Tribal Relations)

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