College students are known to be strapped for time. A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed found the No. 1 stressor in students’ lives is balancing academics with personal, family or ...

Last weekend I was on #elemchat with my colleagues near and far on Twitter and the topic of discussion was service learning. Service learning can be defined in many ways but it is primarily when ...

An ad hoc committee planned and conducedt a 2 day public workshop that explored how service-learning is being used in geoscience education, the potential benefits, and the strength of the evidence ...

Suining Ding, Ph.D., is a professor of Interior Design at Purdue Fort Wayne, and she is a lifetime scholar dedicated to curating service-learning experiences for herself, her students, and the broader ...

Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

Meeting employers’ need for experience — often identified in job postings — is the great catch-22 of starting any career. Many employers require experience for a job, but people cannot gain experience ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Characterizing Current Service-Learning." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Service-Learning in Undergraduate Geosciences: Proceedings of a ...

Service learning allows you to learn while applying your skills to help others through service to the college, the community, or the world. If your passion is to apply engineering to solve problems, ...