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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 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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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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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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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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Students in CHEM 316: Analytical Chemistry Lab partnered with 3 Rochester, NY neighborhoods to test soil for the presence of lead. Collect soil was tested and neighborhood residents received reports summarizing the analyzed data relative to EPA standards. Students learned about the risks and health effects associated with lead poisoning and became skilled in well-established protocols of...
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Students in a Senior English seminar partnered with elders from St. John's Home in Rochester, NY, and conducted one-on-one interviews to capture the elder’s life history. The elder’s story was then turned into a mini-biography of the individual, which was given to the elder, his/her family, and the staff at St. John’s Home.The elders are being provided with companionship, an...
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St. John Fisher College students from the Multivariate Advanced Statistics class, and from the Survey Design and Analysis class, partnered with NeighborWorks in Rochester, NY, to create and administer surveys within three different neighborhoods. As a result, NeighborWorks received useful data on homeowner needs and satisfaction for three "Healthy Block" neighborhoods. This data was...
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On January 18, 2010, The University of Central Oklahoma was officially closed. Instead of sleeping, playing Wii or going to a movie, UCO students chose to serve their community in the spirit of MLK, Jr. 90 student, faculty & staff volunteers met at The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma to prepare food packs out of donated food for thos less fortunate. This day was themed "A Day On,...
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