Uni Studies 10

You have now read about how community partners select service learners, and in your service learning reflections from last week, you wrote about why you chose the site you did.  How do these criteria fit together?  In what ways might they conflict? Do the criteria community partners use to choose you make it easier, harder, better, worse, etc. for you to find a good site?  How well do the criteria the authors present match what you have seen at your site?  Answer one or many of these questions before class starts on Thursday.

Please respond in a comment:

(1) What do you hope to gain from involvement at your chosen service-learning site?  Be specific, consider new skills, knowledge, experience, etc.?

(2) What do you expect to find when  you get to your service learning site?

(3) What do you most fear about your service learning this quarter?

After reading campus compact, please comment on one or more of these questions:

1) Thomas Erlich (the author) declares that we cannot afford to educate a generation of students who only have knowledge with no understanding of how to use that knowledge to help the community.  What do you think about this statement?  How does it relate to what you learned about Kolb’s model of experiential learning?

2)  What role do you think organizations like the Carnegie foundation should have in setting goals for universities across the country?

3) Do you think administrators, faculty, staff, and students should work together or separately in advancing the role of UCI in the community?  What skills and resources do you think each of these groups brings?

Hi everyone,

Please note that a bonus point opportunity has been posted under assignments.

You need to write a paragraph about your experience and why it was meaningful after you have volunteered. This paragraph should be typed and printed and handed to me in class on October 23.

Thank you!

Gillian

I am excited to meet all of you soon and have a great quarter! Please check this space regularly for updated information. In particular, I hope to get the service learning sites up by the end of the weekend.