“Place-Based” Service-Learning program

Denison’s Center for Service-Learning has taken very seriously the issue of how university-sponsored service-learning programs can sustain their community contributions on an ongoing basis. Students leave for the summer and other breaks, students graduate, courses end, professors go on sabbatical, but our community partners and clients and their interests and needs remain. Drawing on the work of Ken Reardon, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Denison’s Center for Service-Learning, under the leadership of Director Dave Ball, has developed what we call “”Place-Based”” Service-Learning to address this issue. While we continue to encourage students and faculty to pursue…