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On May 3, 2012, Undergraduate Research in the Community at UC Riverside hosted its third annual CommuniTEA. This year the event was part of the Symposium for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity. More than 50 people attended the event and had the chance to view student Elizabeth Tizcareno's poster about the Urban Garden Seminar, which is attached.
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The Fremont Unified School District, serving over 32,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently adopted a Data Dashboard system to quickly and visually show district performance in six key areas: Improved Student Achievement, Community Engagement, School Operations, Safe and Secure Facilities, Staff & Employee Relations, and Fiscal Stewardship.
The portion of students engaged in...
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The Campus Corps: Therapeutic Mentoring for At-Risk Youth program was developed by faculty at Colorado State University (CSU) in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and is operated through the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program. Funding for Campus Corps was provided through CNCS - Learn and Serve beginning in 2009 (3 year funding).
In the spring of 2012 the Campus...
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Between the months of October and December 2010, students of Nibley Park Elementary School worked with artist Roger Whiting every Tuesday on this mosaic mural for the One World Café in downtown Salt Lake City. The café is run by One World Everybody Eats, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food for the poor on either a free or work-earned basis. They also make their food...
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In the spring of 2011, four students from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion launched a service-learning project at a residential senior facility. The goal was to increase physical activity in the seniors. The original plan was to lead the seniors through exercises that would increase balance and muscular strength. However, with the initial attendance low, the students decided to...
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Through a series of fortunate events, The Preservation Project grew from the ground up into an initiative developed to build youth civic engagement through experiential service-learning while integrating the arts with community outreach and education. Empowering youth to be leaders in the community while developing their sense of altruism is paramount. Co-founder Angie Leonard states, "By...
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Education and communication students at Emmanuel College in Georgia teamed up to create video storybooks for local elementary students as part of a joint service-learning project. The seven stories were written and created by seven education students and fourteen communication students, and the Comer Elementary media specialist arranged the presentation.
"Service learning is a great strategy...
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Hancock County High School students used GPS (global positioning system) devices to create maps of the school's cross country course, local bus routes, locations of fire hydrants, and the grounds of a local church. Students also taught freshman about GPS devices and how to use them. In the process of creating these maps, students developed working relationships with administration, teachers, and...
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In September 2009, The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee tapped Dallas based nonprofit Big Thought to create an education initiative which would allow youth to have an impact on the North Texas region and showcase that heroes aren't just the players on the field, that they are right in our own backyard.SLANT 45: Service Learning Adventures in North Texas, was designed to inspire youth...
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CAMP Gator (Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program) is an innovative, service-learning, leadership mentoring program that pairs athletes and non-athlete student leaders from the University of Florida with at-risk elementary and middle-school boys and girls from high poverty schools in the Gainesville community. Many of the mentees chosen to participate in the program have discipline issues,...
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