Through experiential education
5th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns @ Notre Dame
Direct Urban Plunge Co-Direct Minor in Catholic Social
Tradition Teach CBL course: Poverty & Politics Worked in Chicago & DC beforehand Connect the 2 Feet: Need both
26 years: “learning becomes service to justice”
Facilitates community-based learning, research & service thru CST
Over 15,000 participants in seminars
Through experiential education, assist students in developing proposed solutions to the systemic problems of poverty
Provide a replicable model of community-based learning in higher education
Provide a mechanism to engage alumni networks in summer internships
Engage creativity in more deeply engaging non-profits
Community-based learning & research Community Partners Summer Internships Alumni Networks
Poverty & Politics – 3 credit Over 20 courses internal - 1 credit
Urban Plunge Appalachia Children & Poverty Border Issues
Around 100 cbl across curriculum – 3 credit
Summer Service courses – 3 credit
Why so many poor in the U.S.? Why care? Seek solutions to causes of poverty Interdisciplinary: humanities, arts, social
sciences Team taught; focus on developing oral
skills Students participate weekly in 1 of 4 non-
profits addressing poverty Community-based learning coordinators
6 in local partner agencies AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist Center for the Homeless La Casa de Amistad Logan Center Robinson Community Learning Center Sr. Maura Brannick Clinic
Pay part of their salary: depending on volume of students Help students find placements w/ agencies Meet needs of students & agencies Assist faculty in creating cbl opportunities Individual & course-related placements Trying to develop courses & research out of agency needs
8 week service learning course Over 240 students to over 110 sites
nationally 3 credit & $2,300 tuition credit Funded through alumni clubs: alumni
contact Orientation/Spring; Reading & Writing w/
Immersion/Summer; Follow-up Session/Fall
8 week summer service learning course 42 students in 12 countries in so.
Hemisphere 3 credit & $1000 stipend; travel
covered
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