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Service-Learning

Learning Communities

Iowa State University has over 50 learning communities and several of them incorporate service-learning into their programs. 

Learning communities and service-learning are a natural connection for several reasons:

Restructures teaching & learning

Reconsiders who learns from whom

Thinks about community intentionally

Prepares students for a diverse democracy

[Modified from National Learning Communities Project Monograph Series.  (date unknown).  “Integrating Learning Communities with Service-Learning.”  American Association of Higher Education.]

Some of the learning community service-learning projects include

  1. Project Glean (Horticulture and Food Science and Human Nutrition)
    Participants harvest, grade and distribute apples to local food pantries.
  2. Skunk River Navy (Biology Education Success Teams)
    Participants take water samples of the river and test the quality, plant native species and clean debris out of part of the Skunk River near Ames
  3. Women In Science & Engineering (WiSE)
    Students plan and implement their own projects in small groups.

For more information about Learning Communities at Iowa State University, please visit the Learning Communities website.