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.
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...
Gathering a group of fourth graders around her, Utah State University educator Shannon Erickson asked the youngsters if they knew what a fossil was. “It’s like when an ancient creature dies and sediment is left on top of them,” one child responded. “They ...
In #103 of the Lecture Breakers podcast, Dr. Jess Lucero joins us to talk about community-engaged learning, or what is also known as service-learning.
