Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

From Australia to Rome, the community-engagement emphasis of Service Learning allows students to see the world and make a meaningful impact through service. Check out upcoming options for service ...

Service learning can have many benefits for students, teachers and the wider community, but starting out can be intimidating. Grace Ngai offers one don’t and three dos to begin your journey So, you’re ...

When he is in Indonesia this summer, Kevin Van Harn will try to remember not to point with his finger. “It’s very disrespectful,” said Van Harn, a 21-year-old Calvin senior majoring in secondary ...

Service learning can help students develop a civic mindset, universities achieve their third mission and communities flourish as a result. Intan Azura Mokhtar shows how With higher education ...

Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall's Disabilities in Literature class focuses on learning outside the classroom during their service learning trip to the Lowell Association for the Blind. Watch the video ...

Work with people in group living facilities to explore their “roots,” and create a book or portfolio with residents and patients. Collect and document what life was like during major recent historical ...

In 1974, Duke offered its first service-learning course. Since then, those individual service-learning courses have expanded into Duke Service-Learning, an initiative supporting 80 separate courses ...

Any election is exciting to me because it represents that I live in a free country; a land that I love and appreciate. The November Presidential election is heating up. Political speeches, campaign ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. Blogger's ...

Community service-learning, where students serve as community volunteers in poor, urban neighborhoods, holds the potential to enhance the sociology curriculum. But community service-learning is not ...