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Designing Effective Community-Based Learning

Facilitated by Gavin Luter, Executive Director Wisconsin Campus Compact & Deb Hoskins, Inclusive Excellence Coordinator, CATL

UWL's Strategic Plan calls for us to provide learning opportunities that tend to benefit all students but especially students from historically underserved groups (e.g., students of color, low-income, and called high-impact practices) to students earlier in their careers than we currently do. Community-Based Learning is a high-impact practice that, because it is so varied and flexible, lends itself well to this goal. It can also feed into the other high-impact practices UWL does particularly well and extensively, most notably undergraduate research and intensive writing. 
 
In this session, participants will learn what current research suggests makes community-based learning effective, especially for historically underserved students. Participants will then identify a community partner working in an area that is relevant to a course they teach, outline a community-based learning assignment for one course, and plan an implementation timeline. The session will assume a focus on 100/200-level courses, but instructors teaching at any level are welcome. 
 
In preparation for this workshop, please explore the Instructors section of the Community Portal and identify one or more community requests that could be addressed, in whole or in part, through your course. You might also explore UGetConnected, UWL's software-based collaboration with La Crosse's other two campuses to serve the need for volunteers in our community's various agencies; many volunteer opportunities can become service-learning experiences with a little thoughtful development and collaboration. 

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2018

Where

153 Murphy Library

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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 153 Murphy Library

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Deb Hoskins at 608.785.8734 or dhoskins@uwlax.edu.

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