Community-Engaged Learning integrates meaningful community engagement with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Students apply knowledge and skills gained though their courses in the real world while addressing community needs, creating mutually beneficial relationships that improve learning experiences, prompt meaningful classroom reflection and discussion, and aid local governments, nonprofits, and the common good.
The Community-Engaged Learning Program works with community partners and faculty to find project matches that benefit the community while meeting course learning objectives. The program also manages course designations to ensure faculty and students are recognized for the work they complete in the community.
This essay describes a cross-age project between a fourth grade class and university students in which the two groups of students worked together on a dramatic performance of Paul Fleischman’s Seedfolks (1997, 2014).
Environmental sustainability outreach programs can benefit significantly by connecting to and fostering change within the Spanish speaking community.
Social work students at Utah State University are working with each other — and building on the work of classmates who came before — to build a program combatting homelessness in the Bear River region.
Students at Utah State University Eastern have the unique opportunity to participate in deer collaring research to track mule deer through the San Rafael Swell with associate professor Sunshine Brosi and the Department of Wildlife Resources in Utah.
During the fall 2021 semester, students in the Utah State University Honors program took up the cause of man’s best friend. Working with the Cache Humane Society, these students, who were enrolled in a Community-Engaged Learning Honors course, experimente...
