The Edmonds Community College blog AfterWords provides a place where students and community members can reflect on service-learning activities and sustainability issues.
Edmonds Community College students often engage in activities with non-profit organizations in the community with their classes as part of the college’s nationally recognized service-learning program. The college’s Center for Service-Learning provides support for these activities and the college’s students contribute nearly 30,000 hours of volunteer service to 57 community organizations each year.
While students have the opportunity to earn college credit and AmeriCorps scholarships by participating in service-learning projects, service-learning is also a way for them to make connections between their studies and the community. AfterWords helps maintain those connections in-between projects and provides a place for on-going reflection.
Committed to thinking, teaching, and living green, Edmonds Community College is a member of Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The college’s Sustainability Council has initiated several projects on campus including the development of classes and degrees that teach environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable practices. AfterWords also encourages discussion of these efforts.
Our featured blogger, Yin Yu, brings a student perspective to AfterWords. She works as the student programmer in the Center for Service-Learning organizing projects, events, and activities. She will be joined by her fellow Learn-and-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) school alumnae, Lisa Quirk, and occasional guest bloggers.