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Service-Learning Resources

Summary of Resources

News

Check out the these Service-learning Spotlight projects from the Fall 2012 semester:

Click here for an article in the December RSENR enewletters, providing a recap of service-learning in RSENR throughout the fall 2012 semester.

Check out the RSENR Service-Learning Map, a visual representation of where the impacts of our service-learning projects are occurring!

On October 1st, local tv station WCAX aired a feature on the NR 1 urban forestry lab. NR 1: Natural History and Field Ecology is the introductory natural resource course required for all incoming freshmen. For the second year, the course includes a service-learning project to collect data on Burlington's urban forest for the Vermont Monitoring Coop.

Winners of the Exhibit Your Experience Photo Contest!

See these photos accompanied by the full written reflections of the students that took them in the student lounge in the Aiken Building.

Lily Morgan, class of 2013, studied abroad in Zanzibar, Tanzania and took this picture of women producing rubber. From her reflection on the experience, "In Zanzibar I did not become an expert of another culture -- another way of life, but rather I became closer to being an expert at asking questions, dealing with problems or challenges, tolerating new environments and socieites, developing skills at being perceptive, making relationships, and allowing emotional growth. This is an experience."

Carolyn Herkenham, class of 2013, during a summer research internship with Vermont EPSCoR. Carolyn's favorite part of the exerience was when "we had the opportunity to create and implement our own independent research projects . . . when I was out in the field with my fellow female coworkers, taking soil samples and testing them back in the lab, I couldn't help but swell with pride and a sense of accomplishement."

Ashley Anderson, graduating from RSENR in December of 2012, submitted this photo of herself (left) and a group of students from the Greenhouse Residential Learning Community. As part of her capstone service-learning project, Ashley worked with other RSENR seniors to coordinate field trips -- such as a canoe trip -- for the first year Ecology of Place course.

Opportunities

Apply to be a teaching assistant for a service-learning course next semester! Applications are currently being accepted for Service-learning Teaching Assistants through the Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-learning (CUPS). The Service-Learning Teaching Assistant Program provides support for faculty, students, and community partners engaged in designated service-learning courses at UVM.

Since 2005, the CUPS Office has offered this unique program to designed to give UVM students training in service-learning pedagogy and leadership development opportunities while providing faculty members additional support for their service-learning courses. To date, over 150 SL-TAs have been trained and supported by the CUPS Office. To apply or to learn more, visit the CUPS SL-TA webpage.

Links

UVM Leadership & Civic Engagement

UVM's Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-learning (CUPS)

Vermont Campus Compact

Lands Stewardship (LANDS) Internship Program

Contact

Elise Schadler, Coordinator of Community-based Learning
Room 312C, Aiken Building
Elise.Schadler@uvm.edu

Last modified January 18 2013 10:21 AM