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HE Sector Service-Learning Success Stories

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse knows what great work you do and we want others to know, too. Please send us stories and photos of your service-learning successes.

  • Southern Vermont College Students Bridge Generational Gap with Local Elementary Schools
    Southern Vermont College students had the chance to host their Pownal Elementary Paw Pals on campus to celebrate a successful partnership over the semester. First-Year 'Quest for Success' students have been visiting local Pownal Elementary School each week to serve as tutors and role models for students. The project is meant to bridge generational gaps, as well as introduce first-year students to...
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  • Kapiolani Community College Helps Shelter Hawaii's Homeless (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Over 70 students from Kapiolani Community College honored the spirit of Dr. King by proving a much-needed service to a struggling community—Hawaii's rising homeless population. KCC’s service-learning team partnered with Hawai’i Helping the Hungry to Have Hope (H-5) to convert an old tour bus into a temporary homeless shelter, as part of the Evans Bus Project. The new mobile...
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  • Northern Virginia Community College (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    For this year’s MLK Day of Service, approximately 200 Northern Virginia (NOVA) Community College  students, faculty and staff took the day on and helped those in need. Over 300 school supply kits, including donated items such as pencils, erasers, and notebook paper, were put together to be sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who will then distribute the supplies to school...
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  • Service-Learning Students Assist with Disaster Preparedness (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Students in Assistant Professor Rachel Dowty's Fundamentals of Emergency Management class last spring partnered with a number of local non-profits to develop emergency management plans. Partnering with agency representatives from the Urban Restoration Economic Corporation, Women's Community Rehabilitation Center, and Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center, groups collaborated with the...
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  • LSU Students Promote Native Plant Species Diversity (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Over the past several years, LSU ecology students have arrived at class dressed in protective gear with tools in hand. What may sound like a challenging scenario for any teacher, though, has been a successful service-learning partnership with BREC's Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Area. LSU students work with BREC to remove invasive plants from the swamp. Bluebonnet Swamp is home to invasive...
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  • Partnering for Preservation
    National Park Service's INTERMOUNTAIN REGION'S UNIVERSITY AS PARTNER POSTER FOR CRM 2000 CONFERENCE Innovative Changes for the CRM Program: Background The National Park Service's Intermountain Cultural Resources Program was restructured during the reorganization of the support offices in 1996-7. An integrated Cultural Resource Management organization was stitched together...
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  • Math Help: ASAP!
    The After-School Achievement Program (ASAP) is a collaborative project between Southeastern Louisiana University and a variety of community partners to enhance the preparation of both college and elementary students by utilizing the talents of teacher candidates to provide an after-school support program for at-risk students. It began last February as the brainstorm of Southeastern...
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  • UNO Students Surrender Spring Break to Volunteer
    The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Service Learning Academy again has organized UNO's Seventh Annual Seven Days of Service Saturday, March 14 and Monday, March 16 through Saturday, March 21. Students from UNO, the University of Nebraska Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha North and Benson High Schools, and the Omaha Public Schools Career Center will landscape, renovate and repair six to eight...
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  • Stories of Service: The Spokane Falls Community College Food Bank
    The harsh economic times facing many in our neighborhoods and communities has increased the demand for the services provided by nonprofits, and nowhere is that urgency felt more than in the nation's food banks. The Washington Campus Compact VISTA program at Spokane Falls Community College knows of the food shortages and hunger facing many in their communities and-with the help of Second Harvest-...
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  • College Students and Joven Students Dance on Stage (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Three days a week students from San Antonio College traveled to the JOVEN to teach dance to 45 students ages 4 to 14. San Antonio College students organized themselves into three teams. Teams choose the day of the week and dance style they would teach. Team members rotated being lead dance instructor for the children's classes. Teams selected class music, planned the warm-up, loco motor...
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