scholarly journals Service Learning Opportunities At The University Of Dayton

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zoghi
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Dayton

A Spirit of Reciprocity: Service-Learning Opportunities at Iowa

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Ruth Bentler ◽  
Ann Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The University

For a number of years, faculty and students from the University of Iowa have been providing services to orphans in China. To improve sustainability, the effort was increased to also include training to hospital and orphanage staff as well. It became clear that the scope of our tasks and the amount of preparation for the students involved was exceeding what we could fit into the spare time of the typical graduate student and the mentor-of the-year. With the onset of a second humanitarian project—demanding similar training preparation and planning—a course was developed to better prepare the students for both the upcoming trips, as well as a lifetime of international collaboration and reciprocity. Funded entirely by student/faculty fundraising efforts (and personal resources), our commitment to global teaching and service is a strong one.

Teaching About America's Fiscal Future in the University's Core Curriculum

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 323-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Galatas ◽  
Cindy Pressley
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
State University ◽  
Curriculum Instruction ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning ◽  
The University

Civic engagement is increasingly recognized as a significant function of public universities. The university provides a variety of opportunities for civic engagement, including co-curricular activities, service learning opportunities, and specific majors and minors. This article reviews the attempt to embed civic engagement and civic education about the national debt and budget deficit issues in a university core curriculum course at Stephen F. Austin State University. We focus on specific issues of curriculum instruction and assessment of student learning of knowledge regarding the debt and deficit issues.

scholarly journals Formal Service Learning Opportunities: Engineering Internships in Social Entrepreneurship Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Camilla M. Saviz ◽  
Abel A. Fernandez ◽  
Elizabeth A. Basha
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
The United States ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Formal Service ◽  
Entrepreneurial Organization ◽  
The University

Over the past three years, a collaboration between the School of Engineering  and the ABC Center for DEF at the University of the XYZ has provided students with internship opportunities at five different social entrepreneurship organizations distributed among six countries.  The summer internship program administered by the ABC Center seeks to provide an enriching experience for participants, to raise awareness of the broad application of social entrepreneurship across different disciplines, and provide qualified student assistance to organizations seeking specific help.  Working with the socially entrepreneurial organization, students were required to apply problem-solving skills in environments where language, culture, technical support, and supervision were very different from levels experienced during their more ‘traditional’ internships in the United States. These internships in social entrepreneurship allowed students to learn first-hand that successfully implementing projects in other countries requires strong technical skills and a fundamental understanding of local cultural, political, and contextual factors.  At the institutional level, lessons learned included the importance of forming strategic partnerships to increase opportunities and capitalize on limited resources, and the need to use existing frameworks to facilitate student involvement in such service-learning opportunities.

scholarly journals Leveraging Students’ Passion and Creativity: ETHOS at the University of Dayton

2014 ◽  
pp. 180-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Pinnell ◽  
Malcolm Daniels ◽  
Kevin Hallinan ◽  
Gretchen Berkemeier
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Faculty Research ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Global Engagement ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Dayton

The Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS) program was developed in the spring of 2001 by an interdisciplinary group (electrical, chemical, civil and mechanical) of undergraduate engineering students at the University of Dayton (UD). ETHOS was founded on the belief that engineers are more apt and capable to appropriately serve our world if they have an understanding of technology’s global linkage with values, culture, society, politics, and the economy. Since 2001, the ETHOS program at UD has grown and changed. From conceptualization, to implementation, to maturation and national recognition, the program has addressed challenges of academic acceptance, programmatic integration and research support as a project-based approach to global engagement. This paper discusses how the program developed from a student idea to a nationally known program. It provides some examples of how projects from this program were integrated into other courses and linked to faculty research. Finally, it will present some of the challenges that face a program such as ETHOS.

scholarly journals 2013 3M Student Fellows Feature Article - Exploring the role of the university student as an experiential learner: Thoughts and reflections from the 2013 cohort of 3M National Student Fellows

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Anita Acai ◽  
Victoria Cowan ◽  
Stephanie Doherty ◽  
Gaurav Sharma ◽  
Naythrah Thevathasan
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Student Leaders ◽  
University Student ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The University

In recent years, there has been a dynamic shift in the role of the university student through the creation and promotion of experiential learning opportunities on campuses across the country. Many post-secondary programs now include co-op placements, practicums, or internships where students can apply theoretical knowledge to real-world settings. However, in this article, we have chosen to focus on more “altruistic” forms of experiential learning – volunteerism, development work, and service-learning – which have gained increased focus in recent years but are often used, we feel, without appropriately reflecting on their meaning. In this article, we draw upon our experiences as student leaders to define each of these roles, outline what we see as the benefits of experiential learning for students, and provide recommendations for how these learning opportunities can continue to be improved. Moreover, we identify privilege, ethics, and responsibility as complexities related to experiential learning and discuss each of these topics in more detail. We end our discussion by addressing the role of experiential learning in helping to define the value of a post-secondary education.

Innovation, Entrepeneurship and International Experience

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Pinnell ◽  
Phillip Doepker ◽  
Lori Hanna ◽  
Mike Vehar
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Business Students ◽  
International Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Dayton

The University of Dayton (UD) Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities for Service-Learning (ETHOS), in collaboration with UD’s School of Business, UD’s Design Clinic, Grupo Fenix (Nicaragua), and the local Nicaraguan community, is currently working on an 18 month project to research and develop a solar medical device sterilizer (sterilizer) that can be used in rural areas of Nicaragua. Engineering and business students are working in a variety of capacities with the local community and Grupo Fenix in Nicaragua to research, design and develop the device. Once developed, the engineering and business students will continue to work with the community and Grupo Fenix to establish a micro-business for the manufacture and distribution of the device. Although this project will address a particular technical need, the infrastructure and unique partnerships that are being developed and optimized through its facilitation will serve as a model for other projects and programs that will be shared within the University of Dayton and with other universities.

Understanding How Students Learn: Preparing Students to Become Professionals

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Lizbeth Curme Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Academic Service Learning

Abstract The intent of this article is to share my research endeavors in order to raise awareness of issues relative to what and how we teach as a means to spark interest in applying the scholarship of teaching and learning to what we do as faculty in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). My own interest in teaching and learning emerged rather abruptly after I introduced academic service-learning (AS-L) into one of my graduate courses (Stevens, 2002). To better prepare students to enter our profession, I have provided them with unique learning opportunities working with various community partners including both speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and teachers who supported persons with severe communication disorders.

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