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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.

  • 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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  • Wayne State University Students Bring Heart Back to Downtown Detroit through Service Learning (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Wayne State University (WSU), celebrated for its applied curriculum, is taking another step in integrating its practical education with its commitment to the community through its service learning initiative, CommunityEngagement@Wayne. One of the latest projects in service learning at Wayne involves a Public Relations COM 7140 course crafted to enrich 24 graduate-level PR students' academic...
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  • LSU Ehrlich Award Winner Elected to Prestigious Fellowship (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Biological Engineer Professor Marybeth Lima, 2007 Thomas Ehrlich Award winner, was recently elected Fellow of the prestigious American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, joining more than 900 international engineers and scientists, among them Nobel Prize winners. Lima and her students work with East Baton Rouge Parish public school students, teachers, parents, and...
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  • 2008 Summit on Indigenous Service Learning: Service Learning and Storytelling a Native Education Model
    On April 30, 2008 - May 3, 2008, the Center for Service Learning hosted a second conference entitled the 2008 Summit on Indigenous Service Learning: Service Learning and Storytelling a Native Education Model. This 3 day conference was attended by more than over 90 people from all over the US including from as far as Hawaii, South Dakota, Montana. One of the highlights of the event was the place-...
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  • Domestic Violence Gets 'Old' for San Antonio College Learn and Serve Project (A Learn and Serve America Grantee)
    Student Alejandro Gonzalez at San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas, presents his Domestic Violence Awareness Month poster to the Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Capitol One Bank. The poster, which is displayed in all Capitol One branches, highlights awareness of violence against seniors who are at risk of being abused. Brook Rosser's Visual Arts and Technology class worked with the...
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  • French Students Add Flair to the Festival of Nations
    Almost twenty students in Frances Chevalier's Advanced Composition, Coversation, and Translation course contributed to the Crown Point (NY) Historical Society's Festival of Nations. Students researched Champlain's exploration of New France, the French heritage of the Champlain Valley region, and the relationship between the native Americans and early French explorers. They prepared French lessons...
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