The Jacoby Center for Public Service and Civic Leadership encourages the civic engagement of Pacific students and faculty through community service and research. Since 2000, the Jacoby Center has brought the interdisciplinary resources of Pacific to bear on community problems and policy options.

Through projects, internships, and similar experiences, students learn to study social and political issues systematically, analyze the way civic leaders attempt to resolve such issues, and assume leadership in organizing and implementing solutions.

Working with faculty and civic actors, students explore how all three levels of government--local, state, and national--confront problems and seek solutions. All of the liberal arts disciplines and the broad variety of professions involved in social issues and policy development may be involved in Jacoby Center initiatives.

The Center is named in honor of Harold S. Jacoby, late Professor of Sociology and first Dean of the College of the Pacific. Professor Jacoby was a model for his students in showing how civic engagement can enrich academic knowledge and apply it usefully in resolving social issues.

Jacoby Center is located in rooms 241 and 242 of Wendell Phillips Center on Pacific's Stockton campus.