Community, Campus & Student Projects

Addressing the needs of communities while preparing students to succeed in a rapidly changing world, community-based student projects transform the university’s research and teaching into useful, tangible results around the state. Through internships, service-learning classes or volunteer activities and interdisciplinary learning experiences will students develop the ability to identify and address complex problems and opportunities.

We can help COMMUNITIES by:

• Developing service-learning, internship and student volunteer projects
• Gathering and analyzing information
• Making connections with UI Extension and other faculty
• Partnering on grant proposals

We can help the UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FACULTY AND STAFF by:

• Recruiting volunteers for community or sustainability activities
• Linking students and courses with community projects for service-learning classes, capstone courses, internships and volunteer opportunities
• Coordinating and managing interdisciplinary grant proposals

We can help UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO STUDENTS by:

• Providing mini-grant funding for projects focused on sustainability or community engagement
• Linking you with a variety of community- or campus-based volunteer, service-learning, and internships opportunities

Collaborative, interdisciplinary partnerships can effectively and efficiently tackle big issues. In other words, many hands make light work so if you are interested in partnering with OCP, please contact us:

communitypartnerships@uidaho.edu
208-885-4017 (Moscow)
208-364-6157 (Boise)