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Building Community During Covid-19 And Beyond: How A Community Garden Strengthened An Honors Community, Steve Garrison
Building Community During Covid-19 And Beyond: How A Community Garden Strengthened An Honors Community, Steve Garrison
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Amid social distancing restrictions, community gardening becomes a focal point of one honors program. While providing fresh produce to the campus food pantry, this student-run initiative generates a new setting for experiential and service learning.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, honors programs across the U.S. struggled to maintain community as higher education moved largely to a virtual setting. Although this shift produced numerous innovations in creative programming, real social interaction greatly diminished. For young adults, social interaction is especially crucial to intellectual and social development, and with community as a key pillar of honors education, compensating for this …