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Outreach and service learning Best practices

Outreach and service learning Best practices. Service learning— Often within a course (students get credit) Students combine academic learning with practice which involves community interaction or civic engagement. Outreach overlaps with service learning Student or faculty-driven.

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Outreach and service learning Best practices

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  1. Outreach and service learningBest practices • Service learning— • Often within a course (students get credit) • Students combine academic learning with practice which involves community interaction or civic engagement. • Outreach • overlaps with service learning • Student or faculty-driven. • Provides education to the community. • Partnership

  2. Outreach and service learning • Best Practices • Campus-based support • Faculty, administration • Coordinated efforts • Partnership • Must work for both sides, need to know the goals for both • Knowledge of the time investment • Faculty and/or the college value • part of your job or need to make choices or do it at the right time? • Assessment and document • # students, types of activities, impact and learning. • Broad dissemination • built in from the beginning. • Use the literature—you don’t need to reinvent the assessment tools, etc. • Coordinated/organized, • having a model that everyone can plug into • infrastructure in place would be a good thing

  3. Outreach and service learning • Challenges • Faculty buy-in can be tricky • Finding partners • Time-consuming to set up partnerships and coordinate efforts • Unmet partnership expectations • Financial limitations • Legal limitations (i.e. safety, risk) • Documenting efforts • Assessing learning and outcomes

  4. Outreach and service learning • An inter-campus student learning/outreach project! • Open to any UAN • Student-driven • Overarching goals of group outreach project • Create the next generation of civically engaged students • use of the inter-campus project to foster engagement • Communication with other students on other campuses • Broader perspective of outreach for our students • Broader perspective of students • other campuses/students/community needs • Understanding that each campus/student brings something valuable to the project

  5. Outreach and service learning • Outreach topics • Not prescriptive, but a common theme across campuses ‘nutrition’ or ‘food’ • Theme is student-selected • Understanding food origins • Genetically-modified foods • vaccination • Outreach ‘community’ • Must be defined by the campus • why are they ‘different’ • K-12 • Community • business majors

  6. Outreach and service learning • Ideas/projects • Find local groups—bring the science to them. • Café Scientifique—on or off campus • Public discourse course—incorporate into a course or an assignment • Cornmeal lab–gene amplification to determine organic or genetically modified • Forensic analysis labs • Community could bring in samples • CO2 lab

  7. Service Learning and OutreachThe project • Student connection • Facebook • Bus trip • Skype • Regional UAN meetings • National ASBMB meeting • Partnerships between students across projects with different ‘tasks’ • Report-back loop

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