About Us
The Center for Campus and Community Connections is a walk-in office created to provide retention support through resource stability initiatives and community connections. This includes connecting students to campus and community resources, student mentors, and volunteer coordination.
Specifically, we will:
- Serve as the point of contact for students needing services or experiencing hardship to identify specific needs.
- Serve as the coordinating office for the Owens Resource Stability Team
- Connect students to peer Connection Mentors.
- Sustain and build the Owens Harvest Food Pantry, Career Closet and Community Garden.
- Connect students to on and off campus resources.
- Connect the campus community to the community at-large.
- Research and develop new resources related to resource stability to support Owens students.
- Assist with coordination of faculty and staff development related to resource stability, service learning, and community engagement.
- Work with internal stakeholders on College-wide service projects.
- Model community building on and off campus.
Contact Us
Location: College Hall 151
Krista Kiessling, Director
krista_kiessling@owens.edu, (419) 460-1272
(Vacant), Americorps Student Resource Center Coordinator
Read more at our AmeriCorps and Owens page. >>
Connection Mentors
connections@owens.edu
Hours
We are available in the Center from 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Friday.
A scheduled appointment is always preferred.
If you are in need of assistance outside of regular office hours, please call (419) 460-1272 for assistance.
FAQs >
For assistance, please read our FAQs. >>