Download ppt - Outreach and service learning Best practices Service learning— –Often within a course (students get credit) –Students combine academic learning with practice

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

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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• 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

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