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Using On-Campus Service Learning Projects to Engage Commuter Students:

Using On-Campus Service Learning Projects to Engage Commuter Students: “I attend this university, but I don’t know much about it except for the parking lot.”.

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Using On-Campus Service Learning Projects to Engage Commuter Students:

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  1. Using On-Campus Service Learning Projects to Engage Commuter Students: “I attend this university, but I don’t know much about it except for the parking lot.”

  2. UCO helps students learn through transformative educational experiences, growing productive, creative, ethical and engaged citizens and leaders.

  3. Central Six

  4. Service Learning • Service Learning is a pedagogy that exposes students to the needs of the larger society by combining service with explicit learning objectives and deliberate reflection, giving equal benefits to both the provider of the service and the recipient to ensure equal focus on both the service being provided and the learning that is occurring.

  5. Mattson, M. & Hall, J. G. (2011). Health as communication nexus: A service-learning approach. Dubuque, IA: Kendal Hunt.

  6. Academically based Civic responsibility Course credit Gain experience Apply classroom knowledge Journal, paper, presentation

  7. Benefits • Integration of theory with practice • Career/vocational clarification • Possible career connections • Sense of purpose • Sense of social responsibility • Enjoyable experience • Regard for cultural differences • Cognitive skills • Problem-solving • Increased knowledge of course content • Interpersonal skills

  8. Barriers to Service Learning • Students? • Faculty? • Recipients?

  9. …like getting the flu over Christmas break

  10. Health Communication • 4000-level course • Focus on Health Theories • Focus on Application • Health Promotion • Health Status • Communication Competence • Social Support

  11. The mission of UCO Healthy Campus is to promote a campus environment supportive of the development and maintenance of a healthy body, mind and spirit for all members of the University of Central Oklahoma community.

  12. Hope Takes Root Here

  13. Central’s labyrinth is the first at a public university in Oklahoma. The paved 11-circuit walking path was designed with the university’s mission in mind.

  14. I played a very significant role in this project of starting a food recovery program. I was the only student working on it, so it was up to me to coordinate with stakeholders, figure out what needed to be done, and keep pushing to actually get it started.

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