Service Learning Commons^™

Three Square, Michael Gallardo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Three Square works to provide food services to those experiencing food insecurity in the Las Vegas area.

Child Development, Theresa Harris

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The history and purpose of the Nellis Air Force Base Child Care Center is to provide a safe learning environment for developing children of military families.

Youth Activism: How A Country Wide High School Competition Can Lead To The Change Of Tomorrow, Carlos Mejia Castillo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

An increase in youth activism is important in order to establish the laws and economic stability that will be beneficial for us in the long term.

F.O.C.U.S.: Forming Occupational And Community Understanding For Success, Stephen Phillips

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issues our program address revolve around equality and inclusion.

Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jesus Ramirez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150’s social issue is homelessness, mainly focused on youth Homelessness

Project Focus, Sean Rogers

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS is an inclusive, accessible, and productive career education program for college-aged students with intellectual disabilities in the Las Vegas area.

The Latino Youth Leadership Alumni, Maria Sanchez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue the LYLA addresses is young minorities, specifically undocumented youth immigrants.

Project 150, Shawn Shoshani

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 assists homeless students in high schools within Nevada who don't have access to basic necessities.

Innovations International Charter School, Rachel Ugarte

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Innovations International Charter School was built to be a school where students have the resources necessary to academically succeed.

Project 150, Christina Perez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The goals of Project 150 include helping disadvantaged teens receive the basic necessities they need to survive, to influence them to graduate high school, and to bring the community together.

Project Focus, Glen-Marie Quintanilla

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS addresses the lack of inclusion within the higher education environment.

Lighthouse Charities, Minwhee Jin

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that LightHouseCharities address is the issues of refugees' and at-risk families’ resettlement.

John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys And Girls Club, Morgan Small

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys and Girls Club addresses at risk youth and juvenile deliquency by providing programs and activities geared towards the positive development of at-risk youth.

The Unheard Stories Of Service-Learners: An Exploratory Study Of The Assumptions Of Race, Identity, And Privilege Within The Service-Learning Experience, J. Faith Krefft

Community Engagement Student Work

Service-learning has become a powerful pedagogical practice in Higher Education. Yet many of its practices have been premised on the idea that participants are white and serving a community unlike their own. Research suggests that the perspectives and identities of students of a diverse background participating in service-learning experiences may be unheard and/or misunderstood. Through a qualitative exploratory study, this study examined the perspective of nonwhite students. Four students from two higher education institutions selected to participate in a set of longitudinal, semi-structured, in-depth interviews in order to better understand their perspectives and experiences in their service-learning field site. Service-learning …

“I Can’T Believe I’M In Charge”: How Zlotkoswki’S “Students As Colleagues” Model Prepares Bentley University Service-Learning Students For Civic Leadership, Brian Shea

Community Engagement Student Work

Business schools exhibit a remarkable ability to produce graduates who are exceptionally analytical; however, these students have been shown to lack sensitivity to the impact of actions taken in the workplace, in communities, and in society. Service-learning is a method that has been proven to instill stronger ethics in business students. Bentley University, a business school in Waltham, Massachusetts, models its Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center after the “Students as Colleagues” framework championed by its founding Director, Dr. Edward Zlotkowski (2006). By employing this approach, Bentley positions its undergraduate students as leaders in social impact initiatives, thereby preparing these students …

Measuring Impact Of Female Leaders On Education Investment In India From 2003-2014, Timothy Lann, Yong Sook Lee

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Income Generation In The Nakanyonyi Sacco Community: Case Study Of Community-Based Development In Jinja, Uganda, Karolina Skarzynska

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Mental Health In Ghana: A Study On The Practice And Understanding Of Mental Health In The Volta Region, Cameron Canton

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Service Learning Through Mentorship: Improving The Thinking Quality Of Future Engineers, Gershan Barnard

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Forging Two-Way Partnerships In Global Health, Jackie Xu, Judy Riviere

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Editor's Notes, Ned Laff

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents Iujsl Volume 7 Issue 2 Spring 2018

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

No abstract provided.

Service-Learning At Parkland College, Brian Nudelman

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshops

This slide presentation presented for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Parkland College demonstrates how service learning opportunities engage the community in learning by defining what service learning is, outlining the benefits to students, faculty, community, and the college and featuring some of the service learning activities and volunteerism resources available to students and faculty.

Volunteering In The Community: Combining Service And Learning, Elena Gandia Garcia

UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo

Most of the patients who use the services offered by the Lied Pediatric Clinic are minorities (70%), and half of those patients are Hispanic. The clinic lacks of professional interpreters to help monolingual doctors and residents to communicate with their patients.

Advocating For Integration: Acculturation In A Non-Profit Serving Immigrants Organization, Daniel Calderon

SPACE: Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement

This paper presents acculturation practices in a non-profit, serving immigrants organization in a Midwestern city in the United States. Although the programs and services offered at this organization become pertinent vis-à-vis the welfare of the immigrants, their expected outcomes seem to foment the Americanization of the organization’s clients.

Through a critical examination, certain services and practices within this organization respond to a unidirectional process of acculturation, in which the immigrants turn out to be the ones who have to acquire certain sociocultural and linguistic repertoires for them to adapt and fit in the U.S. mainstream society.

The utilization of the …

Student Perceptions Of Engagement In A Mandatory Programatic Service Learning, Gina Fe Causin, Chay Runnels

Faculty Publications

In the hospitality industry, service-learning opportunities are particularly important for students seeking work in the meeting and event planning industry. Faculty of a hospitality program at a regional university in East Texas decided to investigate the benefits in embedding service learning activities to their hospitality courses. The study investigated student perceptions of their participation in compulsory service learning assignments were created and implemented. Service learning assignment benefited the respondents personally; it benefited the sponsoring organization; it benefited the respondents’ career goals and their own individual awareness of community issues.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Ben Brikman

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

According to J Stuart Elborn (2016), a medical professor from Queen’s University Belfast, youth that grow up with this disease “have shown a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients with cystic fibrosis and parent caregivers.” It greatly affects a person when they are feel like it is a burden to take care of themselves. Many affected by psychological distress allows this negativity to affect their adherence to their treatment and experience more frequent exacerbations, which leads to a poor quality of outlook on life.

J.T. Mcwilliams Elementary, Anthony Cano

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

According to Nevada Report Card, 287,550 students in the state of Nevada are identified as minorities.

John D. Jackie Gaughan Clubhouse, Dakyung Jung

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

“Alleviating urban poverty depends significantly on economic growth and the nation’s ability to provide more, and better-paying, jobs” (Lemons, 2015).

Project 150, Jacob Mcqueen

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that Project 150 seeks to address is the issue of homeless and underprivileged youth.