The Jewett Center for Community Partnerships is the home of community engagement at Wesleyan. Wesleyan collaborates with local school systems on a variety of programs that promote success for elementary through high school age students. Nearly 400 Wesleyan undergrads volunteer and connect with more than 1,000 schoolchildren each year. Some highlights:

Wesleyan’s Upward Bound Math-Science program serves over 100 low-income, first-generation and underrepresented high school students from Middletown, Meriden, and New Britain, preparing them academically for college and assisting with the college search and application process.

Wesleyan Science Outreach organizes weekly after-school hands-on science activities for students in grades K–5.

WesReads/WesMath/WesWrites has approximately 60 Wesleyan volunteers who work with elementary students in small groups to promote reading, writing, and math and reaches over 100 students weekly.

Wesleyan offers a class called Teaching Music to Children that enrolls 6­–10 students per year and gives them training and hands-on experience teaching local children the basics of an instrument. Many of these Wesleyan students continue teaching Middletown children after they finish the course.

Kindergarten Kickstart is a collaboration between the University and the City of Middletown in which Wesleyan students teach an innovative research-based, summer program to Middletown students about to start kindergarten.

The hockey rink in the Freeman Athletic Center annually hosts a Career Expo for high school students. Over 1,400 students attend this Career Expo, and more than 100 businesses from across the state typically participate.

Wesleyan’s curriculum includes a broad array of service-learning courses, which combine an academic curriculum in the classroom with experiential learning through a service project for the local community.