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Center for Service Learning

Service-Learning:

Making a Difference in Your World!

The Center for Service-Learning at Edmonds Community College provides support for service-learning courses and events at the college and in the community.

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse describes service learning as "a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities."

 

Accomplishments and Support

In the past five years, the center has hosted thirteen full-time AmeriCorps members and provided $250,000 in part-time AmeriCorps education awards to 200 students. The Center has brought over $300,000 in grants to the college last year alone, hosted four regional service-learning workshops, and supported an average of 525 service-learning students who provided nearly 30,000 hours of service to 57 campus and community partners per year.

These efforts have been recognized nationally with the following awards:

• Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from Campus Compact
• Service-Learning Collaboration Award from the Community College National Center for Community Engagement.

Support for these programs comes from Washington Campus Compact, American Association of Community Colleges and the Edmonds CC Foundation.

 

Students in Service

A Campus Compact AmeriCorps Education Award program that provides incentives for higher education students to serve their communities by offering scholarships of $1,000 - $2,362. Students participate in community service, service-learning or civic engagement activities. Volunteer projects support education, public safety and environmental initiatives, homeland security, and human needs on campus and in the community.  Click here to complete an application form. More information are available at studentsinservice.org.

 

 

LEAF School

The Learn-and-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School provides students with the opportunity to earn academic credit and an AmeriCorps' education award while assisting local government, tribes, businesses and non-profit agencies with environmental stewardship.

To participate enroll in Anthropology 201 (Human Ecology I), Anthropology 202 (Human Ecology II), and/or Anthropology 203 (Human Ecology III). Students can earn 5 credits per quarter during the academic year and meet for eight hours per week. Students can earn up to 15 credits in summer and meet for up to thirty-two hours a week. Click here to learn more.

 

Pictures of winter quarter LEAF students snow tracking with Cascade Citizens Wildlife Monitoring Project.

 

LEAF School was awarded: Volunteer Group of the Year in 2006

by The Stilly Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force

 

 

The Retention Project

A Washington Campus Compact AmeriCorps Program

 A Washington Campus Compact program that

supports the success and retention of

disadvantaged youth and first-generation college

students through mentoring, tutoring, and

service-learning opportunities. The Retention

Project supports the LEAF School; mentoring

and tutoring programs on Whidbey Island, at

Scriber Lake High School, Lake Stevents High

School and in Career Action Center; and engages

members of the Rolling Tritons in mentoring

activities with youth.

 

 

TRIO Student Support Services

Through the Retention Project, Ester works with students that attend Edmonds Community College, most of whom are members of TRiO, a student support program that serves low-income, first-generation college students, and students with disabilities.  Within TRiO, she will implement a peer-mentoring program, provide a workshop that will help students transfer to four-year schools, and work with community agencies and college faculty to provide students with opportunities to engage in service learning.

Career Action Center

Through the Retention Project, Laura will work with students in the Career Resource Room on finding post graduation employment and college survival jobs while enrolled in school. Through her work in the Career Resource Room Laura will help students create and edit resumes and cover letters and will assist students in locating and filling out job and internship applications. While on campus Laura will also work to engage students in service learning projects in an effort to provide the students with an opportunity to give back to their communities while they learn something new.

Adult Basic Education, ESL Program

Rosie works with Immigrants and Refugees in the ABE-ESL Advising Office. She provides assistance for students in need of guidance to find the right class to help them learn English. She is also an active volunteer for the program in and out of the Advising Office. She provides support for teachers in classrooms, helps facilitate the Talk Time conversation group, and tutors students one-on-one. As the first AmeriCorps member in the ABE ESL Department, Rosie plans to coordinate a conversation partner program and a peer mentorship program for ESL students hoping to transition into college. She is committed to helping students feel connected to the college and community through Service-Learning activities.

 

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