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Regional Ecosystem Applied Learning Corps
The Regional Ecosystem Applied Learning Corps is a collaborative program between Southern Oregon University, The Rogue River National Forest, the City of Ashland, and twelve other land management and community organizations. The program intergrates an academic and applied learning curriculum allowing REAL Corps members to gain a comprehensive understanding of public land management policies and practices, knowledge of social and ecological issues and gain practical experience through accomplishment of projects benefiting public lands, the surrounding communities, and enviroment. Website
The Women’s Performance Group
The Women’s Performance Group considers itself more than just a club. It is an environment where young women and men consider women’s issues, develop their unique talents, nurture their aspirations, and support others who are in needs. The group often uses visual and performing aids in its many service learning projects. As members of this group, the students design and prepare each activity. Student officers and committees plan, oversee, and coordinate activities, and all members proudly demonstrate ownership of this service learning group. The women’s Performance Group is currently working with district elementary and middle schools and with other districts,…
Worcester Community Project Center
The Worcester Community Project Center brings together into a more productive synergy two long-term WPI initiatives: I) Improving service to the Worcester community through enhancing outreach from WPI faculty, graduates and students, specifically through locally-sponsored interactive projects relating science, technology and society (which is a unique nine-credit-hour reqiurement for graduation for all WPI students) II) Improving the academic quality of interactive projects performed locally, by adapting best practices developed at distant residential project sites to enrich learning in projects sponsored by local agencies and carried out by students living on campus. The mission of the group is to assist local…
Highlighting courses that have a community-based learning component
In order to sustain and build a growing awareness of community-based learning beyond general education, we began the practice of noting with a special icon in the class schedule those courses that have a community-based learning component. Students in each of these classes as well as faculty who teach them, and their community partners complete a questionnaire that provides a self-assessed view of course effects on student learning and on the achievement of the goals mutually defined by the community partner and the faculty member. Contact: askunst@pdx.edu Website: http://www.pdx.edu/unst/senior-capstone
Newspaper readership program: encouraging lifelong reading habits and informed citizenship
Penn State has experienced considerable success in its attempt to impact the campus culture through an innovative newspaper readership program. The program provides national and community newspapers to students living in residence halls on 9 of 24 campuses of the University, with the goal of “”encouraging lifelong reading habits and informed citizenship.”” With preparation for a fourth year of distribution underway, assessment of the program clearly indicates that regular newspaper readership produces a broad range of information to help students understand the world and communities in which they live. Approximately 1.6 million copies of The Daily Collegian, The New York…
Presidential Seminar: “”The Individual, the University, and Responsibility within a Free Society””
Brown University has long prided itself on having a student body committed to community service and social change. And yet, Brown lacked a broad and formal way of discussing issues of ethics, civic responsibility, and community commitment. Upon becoming the seventeenth president of Brown, E. Gordon Gee announced that “Brown is a private university with a public purpose” and has challenged the Brown community to define that ideal. The Presidential Seminar is one vehicle used to discuss that ideal. The seminar is limited to 15 students and with the participation of Peter Hocking, Director of the Swearer Center for Public…
Studying the impact of service-learning
Service-learning seeks to impact not just what students write on a test, but what they value and what they believe dispositions that are a challenge to collect and measure. At Vanderbilt University, service-learning researchers Janet Eyler and Dwight Giles use a collection of socio-psychological scales such as personal efficacy, tolerance, and locus of control to measure values that service-learning purports to instill in students. By surveying students and correlating data to external factors, they seek to isolate the impact of service-learning on citizenship, social justice, civic responsibility and similar dispositions. Among their findings: service-learning appears to have particular effect on…
Student Government Resource Center
The Student Government Resource Center provides student government and state student association leaders with the training and resources to succeed, from how to run productive meetings to how to win changes in campus policies. For thirty years, we’ve been teaching student governments the skills and know-how to accomplish their goals and be effective advocates for students.
New Edition of The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education has just published its latest issue at http://discovery.indstate.edu/jcehe/index.php/joce. I invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. JCEHE is an open-journal and articles are accessible at no cost (online registration is required to view the articles). If you have not already, please register and be a reader. Editorial ——– Critical Incident Planning in Community Engagement Catherine Stemmans Paterson Perspectives ——– Service Learning Students’ Perceptions of Citizenship Audrey Falk Research and Theory ——– Engagement of Community Health Workers in…
KVCC to receive $150,000 from Elmina B. Sewall Foundation to benefit new agricultural sciences programs
Hinckley, ME – The Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges has been awarded $150,000 from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation of Freeport to support infrastructure development necessary to launch an education hub for agricultural sciences at Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC). KVCC is locating its Sustainable Maine Agriculture Resource and Technology (SMART) Hub on a 120-acre farming section of the new 600-acre Harold Alfond campus in Hinckley – the site of the former Good Will Farm that has lain fallow for over a decade. The grant funds will be used to renovate a landmark barn structure not only to safely and…
New Edition of JCEHE
The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education has just published its latest issue at: https://discovery.indstate.edu/ojs/index.php/joce. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Catherine Stemmans Paterson, PhD, AT Faculty Fellow, Community Engagement Associate Professor, Applied Medicine & Rehabilitation Editor, The Journal of Community Engagement in Higher Education Tirey Hall 132 A Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 (812) 237-3693 (812) 237-2525 fax cpaterson@indstate.edu Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education Vol 4, No 1 (2012)…
Ecotoxicology
Course Description: Graduates (~5) and upper-level undergraduate students (~15) from Biology, Chemistry and Geology will learn about the various classes of toxicants (including those naturally occurring), how toxicants move in ecosystems and within organisms (humans, animals, and plants). Lectures will cover chemical transformations and mechanisms of toxicity. This course will also introduce the students to how controlled toxicity experiments are conducted, how data is reduced, and the power of statistical analyses to identify significant effects. A case study approach will be utilized in lecture and labs to examine the toxic effects of acidification, heavy metals, PCB, insecticides, and environmental endocrine…
Intro to Political Science
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVE: This course explores basic issues of political science including political theory, comparative political institutions, dominant ideologies and ideas, the importance of law, the domestic and Third World struggles for civil and political equality, and international relations. At the end of this course, each student will have: A. developed an understanding of the history of political science as well as the methods, concepts, and language which political scientists use to study and interpret politics, political regimes, ideologies, political institutions and public policies. B. developed an awareness of the structure and operation of the components of different political…
Community Engagement
COURSE DESCRIPTION This interdisciplinary, community-based field study “laboratory” is a variable credit elective which provides students the opportunity to engage intensively in a community based project or program with academic application, support, guidance and supervision. Student may choose to take this course for 1-3 credits in order to more fully engage in a project derived from another class as a supplement to that class; or they may take this elective independently to pursue a project of interest with the community. Many students took this course in fall 2009 in order to participate in the USM LA Cares for Youth mentoring…
Washington Campus Compact Students in Service Award Winners Announced
Washington Campus Compact and Inspireum today announced the winners of the 2011 Students In Service Awards, honoring college students for their outstanding service projects that positively impact society and inspire others to serve. The three winners were chosen by a national selection committee of civic leaders and over 714,000 supporters across the country who voted online for their favorite service project. Hundreds of college students nationwide applied for the award, and collectively contributed thousands of hours of time, effort, knowledge and leadership toward some of the most difficult challenges facing communities around the globe.
Community Service Increases at Iowa Colleges
Coe College sophomore Sam Sikrisamouth is spending this week in Atlanta, swinging a hammer and wielding a paintbrush during Coe’s alternative spring break trip to help build homes. Most colleges and universities offer alternative spring break, when students volunteer around the state and around the country. The trips are among the numerous ways that an increasing number of Iowa college students volunteer in their communities or take part in service learning in their classes. Iowa college students in 2006 were 32nd in the nation for community service rates, and they jumped to fifth in 2008 and to second nationally in…
Art: Elementary School
Catalog Description 2 Credits. Basic methods for teaching art in the elementary school. The development of skills and creative behavior in children. Course Connection to Conceptual Framework As a reflective decision-maker, the student makes informed and ethical decisions and provides evidence of being a capable professional by developing and presenting lessons that demonstrate a respect for the developmental characteristics of young children. Students demonstrate the ability to create artwork and evaluate historical and cultural artwork using knowledge of art elements and principles of art and aesthetic theory. Academic Service-Learning Due to the nature of the course content and the required…
Black Literatures
Course Description This course explores literature from the African diaspora – particularly West Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean. A range of questions will guide our discussion including: What constitutes the African diaspora? What is the relationship between diaspora and nation? What are the connections between the African diasporas in the construction of a black identity? We will read fiction and drama from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Jamaica, Haiti, England, and the U.S. (among other countries) with protagonists who often look to Africa and/or the ancestors for renewal and empowerment. Among the themes we will explore are oral…
Lee University Receives Presidential Award For Community Service
Lee University was named as one of six Presidential Awardees in the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement….The Corporation administers the Honor Roll in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council on Education…. Read the entire article in The Chattanoogan.
UNC faculty member wins award
Jenny Huq received the Civic Engagement Professional of the Year Award, presented on Feb. 10 at Elon University.… The Civic Engagement Professional of the Year Award recognizes a staff person at a North Carolina Campus Compact member campus who has worked toward the institutionalization of service, created and strived toward a vision of service on campus, supported faculty and students and formed innovative campus-community partnerships. »Read the entire article in The Carrboro Citizen.