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College encourages civic engagement for students, 教师 和工作人员

College encourages civic engagement for students, 教师 和工作人员

 

Civic Engagement

If you frequently drive down Garner Field Road, 有时, you may have seen some SWTJC students in bright orange vests picking up trash. 乍一看, you may have thought these students were being punished for not turning in an assignment.
正相反, the students were taking part in a service learning project, which is a newly adopted method of instructing at SWTJC. Service learning projects have been trending in the world of higher education.

的 individuals picking up trash are members of the two-year honor society, Phi 的ta Kappa at SWTJC. 的 club’s adopt-a-highway program is only one of many service learning projects conducted at SWTJC.

Earlier this year the college administration launched the second part of the Quality Enhancement Plan, which focuses on the high impact practice of service learning.

的 idea behind service learning is to combine community service with academic instruction while focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility.

Some of the service learning projects include community art projects, child abuse prevention, student food pantry and domestic violence awareness.

One example of a service learning project is instructor Rob Fowler’s students sprucing up the community swimming pool and picking up trash at the Uvalde Memorial Park.

在另一个案例中, Uvalde college art students painted a mural on the wall of Bluebonnet Children's Advocacy Center, a child abuse center.

的 impact this project had was felt not only by the students but also by the employees at the center.
“We are so thankful that the students chose our organization to complete their class project. 的 mural they completed brightens the environment and helps make the children we work with feel more comfortable here,” said Katie Hughes, volunteer coordinator at the Bluebonnet Children's Advocacy Center. “It is such a great thing that SWTJC is doing for the community and giving back to our town.”

的re have been numerous other projects, and not only in Uvalde, SWTJC 鹰通 and 德尔里约热内卢 students have also been heavily involved in service learning projects.

Psychology instructor, Kathy Santos’ classes led a service learning project involving the prevention of domestic violence. 的 
的 students went on to involve the mayor of 鹰通, where a proclamation was read during a city council meeting.
据博士说. 艾米·加西亚, Quality Enhancement Plan Director approximately 500 students submitted roughly 1,800 service learning hours during the Fall 2016 semester. 的 courses included economics, psychology, and humanities.

据博士说. Mitchel Burchfield, division chair of developmental studies, service learning projects can be conducted in any class.

Burchfield who is highly involved in the initiative delivered a presentation about Service Learning and how the college is doing during the second year of implementation of the “RISE to the Top Quality Enhancement Plan” at the Achieve 的 Dream Conference in San Francisco earlier this year.

During the presentation SWTJC 教师 and administrators shared how service learning (a high impact educational practice) has promoted student learning outcomes in the college’s core curriculum classes.

SWTJC recognizes that encouraging civic engagement to its 教师, 工作人员, and students result in the strengthening of the communities the college serves while improving the student learning experience in and out of the classroom.