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Tim Cavell, Recipient of Service Learning Teaching Awards

    Tim Cavell, professor in the Department of Psychological Science, has been selected to receive the third annual Outstanding Contributions to Service Learning Teaching Award at the University of Arkansas. This award is given to recognize his...

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Come Join Service Learning Workshop in February!

Interested in Service Learning but worried about time commitments, learning objectives and appropriate partner matching or community impact? Come to the Service Learning workshop to learn more. The Service Learning Initiative will be hosting its annual workshop...

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Service Learning Award and Grants 2017

The University of Arkansas Service Learning Initiative is pleased to announce opportunities for faculty and instructors who are engaged in, or looking to become engaged in, service learning on the University of Arkansas campus. These opportunities include: Outstanding...

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Jordan Gershon: Helping local nonprofit organization through service learning

Jordan Gershon is a junior in Communication department. In fall 2017, she is enrolled in Nonprofit Fundraising (COMM 3983). This service learning course is taught by Dr. Sara Bishop, a University of Arkansas lecturer who has been passionately teaching courses on...

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University of Arkansas Named to President’s Community Service Honor Roll

The University of Arkansas has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the first time, in recognition of the service learning and volunteer service programs developed by the campus Service Learning Initiative and the Center for...

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Turning STEM into STEAM with Music Education and Service Learning

University of Arkansas Students preparing to be music educators have been turning STEM into STEAM at Washington Elementary School on Monday afternoons this semester. Department of Music students enrolled in the Classroom Instruments in Music Education course are...

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Dr. Kayser and Dr. Hagstrom, the Recipients of Service Learning Teaching Award

The first Outstanding Contributions to Service Learning awards have been presented to Casey Kayser, clinical assistant professor of English in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and Fran Hagstrom, assistant dean of the College of Health and...

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Molly Jensen: Lessons learned from teaching service learning

Dr. Molly Jensen is a clinical associate professor at Marketing Department, Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She is teaching nonprofit marketing class. What she finds most fulfilling in teaching a service learning class is seeing students...

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Carly Franklin: Service Learning a necessary component of any education

Professor Carly Franklin is a clinical assistant professor at the School of Social Work. She is teaching some service learning courses such as Social Work Practice II and III, Field Seminar, Spirituality in Social Work.  For Professor Franklin, service...

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Laura Gray: Transformative shifts through international service-learning experiences

Dr. Laura Gray is an assistant professor at the Department of English, University of Arkansas. She is teaching Introduction to Literature: Community Engagement as well as Community Development Program in Vietnam. For her, service learning is impactful for both...

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