Content with Topics : Engaged Campus

College Student Philanthropy

When we think about the educational tools that colleges and universities employ to develop active and engaged citizens, we may first think about service-learning courses, organized days of service, and other academic and non-curricular programming to involve students in reflective service opportunities. Most civic engagement activities invite students to learn by giving of their “time and talent,” but rarely provide opportunities for students to learn by giving “treasure.” Many schools across the country have begun to implement both course-based and non-curricular opportunities for students to develop civic competencies by awarding grants. These experiential philanthropy courses engage students in the development…

Students As Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership

This seminal volume takes service-learning to a new level by demonstrating how it can meet its academic and community goals while developing student leaders. Models from campuses across the country offer successful practices for recruiting and training student leaders in service-learning, using students to staff key administrative positions, and establishing student-faculty partnerships to design and run community-based courses. According to Campus Compact’s member survey, nearly three-quarters of colleges and universities cite both student leadership development and student civic engagement as key outcomes in their strategic plans. Students as Colleagues is a must for anyone on campus seeking to achieve these…

Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change

This hands-on guide speaks directly to student leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness of their engaged work while enhancing their academic and civic learning. Based on three years of activity in Campus Compact’s hugely successful Raise Your Voice civic action campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students across the country, this book is full of targeted strategies, tools, and activities for organizing change on campus. From holding civic dialogues to meeting with elected officials, from mapping assets and allies on campus to organizing alternative breaks, this book offers tips and step-by-step advice — from students, for students — for…

Campus Election Engagement Project

Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) is a national nonpartisan project that helps America’s colleges and universities motivate their 20 million students to register, volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves, and turn out at the polls. We focus on how administrators, faculty, staff, and student leaders can help engage students, and we just finished up our biggest year yet in 2014, working directly with 280 campuses in 21 states and having partner organizations distribute our materials to 680 more. In 2015, we’re continuing our personalized approach — working with campuses around the country to deepen their engagement efforts and prepare for 2016….

Engaged Learning Economies: Aligning Civic Engagement and Economic Development in Community-Campus Partnerships

This report defines a new concept in civic engagement on college campuses called Engaged Learning Economies. Initiatives at US colleges and universities, which utilize common strategies to merge civic engagement with economic development through strategic partnerships, create Engaged Learning Economies. By strategically aligning these civic engagement and economic development, campuses are having a positive impact on both student learning at these institutions and economic development in local communities where these partnerships take place. Partnerships between institutions and communities which consciously commit to several guiding principles create the cornerstone of these Engaged Learning Economies. The three common principles identified are: establishing…

A Promising Connection: Increasing College Access and Success through Civic Engagement

This white paper provides compelling evidence that college students who participate in civic engagement and service-learning activities as part of the curriculum, earn higher grade point averages and have a better chance of staying in college and earning degrees. Moreover, K-12 students who are reached through college student civic engagement in their communities gain increased access to college and graduate in higher numbers, especially first-generation college attendees, students of color, and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. https://compact.org/wp-content/uploads/large/2015/04/A-Promising-Connection-corrected.pdf

National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership

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The 7 regional coordinators of the National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership (NSLTEP) supported teacher education faculty at 21 institutions in developing service-learning components of their programs during the 1998-99 year. Service-learning has been integrated in many teacher education courses and numerous new collaborations with schools and community members are providing teacher education students with practical experiences in providing service to children and/or coordinating K-12 students involvement in service-learning activities. One site that is notable to mention as a success story is Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. EVERY elementary school in their 3-T Tutoring program (coordinated by Dr. Fred Smiley,…

Student Resource Center and the Leadership Institute

The SDSU Student Resource Center oversees the Leadership Institute that has a number of programs, a conference, and a leadership course that are founded in the belief of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles). The Student Resource Center staff truly believes that the development of leadership skills can and should be linked to the community. All of their initiatives include a service-learning component. SDSU Service Learning home E-mail: servicelearning@sdsu.edu

Theater Classes

Mime and Movement The class partnered with members of On Stage! to create mime performances with a circus theme. The On Stage! program conducts theater classes and provides performance opportunities to adults coping with mental illness. Our students taught their students about mime and developed over the course of the semester a joint performance that was put on on-campus at the end of the semester. Improvisational Acting Students conducted improv workshops at four different sites. One site was On Stage!. Another site was with mentally disabled children. Another site was at a local elementary school with 3rd graders. And the…

“Principles of Drama Therapy” course: a seniors theatre group

Senior citizens who are confined by physical limitations and/or institutional life need to connect with other people and can be refreshed through the energy that comes with interacting in a playful, creative manner with others. This fall, in Principles of Drama Therapy, Professor Sally Bailey has linked Kansas State University students with seniors at a local retirement community to start a seniors theatre group. The team is creating an autobiographical original play/video production to enhance the social relatedness, sensory awareness, verbal skills, and creativity of the seniors. The students get to apply their skills learned in class and gain a…

Social Solutions course: Objective examination and subjective experience

Sociology represents one of the most common disciplines for service-learning, as service puts a human face on sociological theory. In the syllabus for Social Solutions at Johnson State College, sociologist Susan Green-Reynolds informs students that contemporary social issues that include homelessness, affordable housing, AIDS, urban issues, sexual orientation, racism, sexism, and environmental degradation will be both examined objectively and experienced subjectively. The subjective experience arises through 30 hours of community service which all students perform to complement readings by Jonathan Kozol, Randy Shilts, and others about American social problems. Students are also given the option of taking an accompanying full-credit…

Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing course

Jan Lewis, a nursing instructor at Pueblo Community College, incorporated service-learning into a course entitled Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Through the course, nursing students joined teams of staff working with clients at the Colorado Mental Health Institute. Students were responsible for conducting a thorough assessment of clients needs, and then providing support and assistance as necessary to meet the needs of the clients and their families. At the end of the course, students reflected on the experience by making recommendations regarding treatment of the mentally ill. Their recommendations included increasing public education, developing common interest groups, and helping to…

Health education: Controlling Stress and Tension course

The service-learning component in Controlling Stress and Tension, a health education course at the University of Maryland, College Park, allows students to apply their learning to help the local community. Students have taught everyone from elementary school children to cancer patients to volunteer firefighters how to better handle the tensions associated with their lives. From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy Website

Educational psychology course: Knowing your own learning

Students who enroll in The Psychology of Learning at Bellarmine College, incorporate service-learning as a natural extension of their coursework. Students document the learning that they experience in a service project of their choosing, and apply the educational principles of reinforcement, observational learning, and modeling in a paper that they write about the experience at the end of the class. In this way, students learn as much from the way they process the experience as they do from the experience itself, and recognize the importance of relating the two. From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of…

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Service-Learning Program

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) in Service-Learning Program Community Service Programs piloted an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) for service-learning program in fall 1999. UTAs enroll in EDUC 388 Special Topics in Education and EDCI 498 Special Problems in Teaching for a total of four credits. The program meets three objectives: provide assistance to faculty who integrate service-learning into their teaching; help students explore the art of teaching, especially using service-learning pedagogy; and support students and faculty as partners in connecting service-learning theory and practice. UTA-SL program web page: For further information, contact Marie Troppe at mtroppe@accmail.umd.edu

Senior Capstone

One of the most significant activities for PSU is focused on the student constituency component of the Campus Assessment of Civic Responsibility and specifically relates to curriculum. It is the Senior Capstone, a required component of the 4-year general education program known as the University Studies Program (UNST). Interdisciplinary teams of students engage in a community or community-related project that integrates the learning in their major with the curricular goals of UNST, including ethical issues and social responsibility. Specifically, the goal states: “”Students will expand their understanding of the impact and value of individuals and their choices on society both…

Introductory Accounting course with extra credit option for tutoring

Students enrolled in Introductory Accounting at California State University, Chico, quickly learn that good business is about more than just good business skills. Professor Curtis DeBerg focuses on developing students leadership, teamwork, and communication skills, and uses service-learning to do the job. Students are given the extra credit option of spending one to two hours a week teaching business and computer literacy skills to at-risk youth. In this way, the course shows students the potential for business to have a meaningful impact on people s lives, at the same time as it teaches human skills often overlooked in business disciplines….

Student Leadership Academy

The Leadership Academy at Lansing Community College uses service-learning to help students develop the skills to become leaders in their community. Every fall, 15 students are selected to be part of a two-year series of four classes designed to teach skills such as leadership, event planning, and program evaluation. Service-learning is incorporated throughout the program, providing students with ways to connect their lessons in leadership to meaningful work in the community. At the end of the program, every member of the academy is required to do a final leadership project in the community. Student Leadership Academy web page

Psychology 1010 program

At the University of Utah, Psychology 1010 excels in simultaneously enhancing students academic learning while exposing them to practices of good citizenship. The PSYCH 1010 team accomplishes this, surprisingly, in a traditionally challenging environment: large classes of young, inexperienced first-year students. Agency surveys, student evaluations, and grades illustrate very positive feedback about both the service and the learning. Dr. David Dodd and two teaching assistants, trained and funded by the Lowell Bennion Community Center, refined the format and process of integrating service-learning into PSYCH 1010, and created a manual for subsequent 1010 classes. What they learned, accomplished, and documented may…

Service Learning and Living Community

he Service Living and Learning Community (Service LLC) is for incoming first-year students interested in integrating into campus life through a community service lens. The Service LLC introduces students to Elon by providing opportunities to volunteer with campus and community organizations, while providing a foundation for social justice education through discussion of important local issues. The Service LLC provides an opportunity to become familiar with the local community outside of the Elon bubble, and offers a residential opportunity to live alongside other students who are passionate about service and want to be engaged on campus. Since the Service LLC consists…