Learning community

Communities are groups of people with similar interests and backgrounds that are connected by related beliefs. Colleges strive to create a multi-cultural population. This allows students to expand their knowledge and awareness of others' upbringings. This prepares first year students especially, for the rest of their lives, it brings people together while teaching about different ways of life. Many come into college unaware of what they want to study and which career to pursue. Learning about…

Prompt: Why is community service such an important part of an effective civic culture? Elizabeth Andrews once said, “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart” (cite). The interests, passions, and determination lying within one’s soul motivates others to make worthy decisions that promote a civic culture. Since the existence of mankind, dedicated individuals have been selflessly serving others to “pay it forward” to their communities. People volunteer for a variety…

good for helping others out. For my service learning, I chose to work with my old elementary school teacher, Ms. Simon, who works in the AAP department. I also happened to meet a new teacher, Ms. Maloney who works with special ed. kids. I helped them get work done around their room. I started out working for Ms. Simon in the beginning of school last year. Last Summer I had visited Franconia, where she works, and she asked if I could do service learning with her and so I did. This quarter,…

Experience (FULE) has enabled students to learn community service and gain practical life and career experience living in St. Paul’s historic Frogtown neighborhood. The FULE House provides housing for up to six Bethel students each year, all of whom regularly attend Urban Homeworks Seminars and participate in weekly community engagement. The experience also requires students to take Intentional Urban Living, through which they explore the meaning of community and the unique issues that arise in…

My first time doing community service for Academic Service Learning took place on University Service Day. For this day, there were multiple organizations that I could choose to serve. I chose the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens. When I first arrived at the club, I was saddened by the condition of the building, the theatre was old and cracking in some areas and the carpet had various stains within it. However, the basketball court was in decent condition. I began to think about the lack of…

The importance of community service has been interlaced into the majority of the nursing classes I have had at the bachelor’s level and the master’s level of education. Being active in community service has been presented as a cornerstone of my nursing career in the work place as a leader within my organization. I am learning now that being involved in community service holds true for the nurse educator as well. Dawson & Freed (2008), state that “professional nurses have a commitment to…

of possible locations to volunteer, one particular place grabbed my attention. The name of this place was Waite House, and thankfully it is the organization where I am currently engaging in my service-learning. Waite House is located in the Ventura Village neighborhood within the Phillips community in Minneapolis. This organization caught my attention because not only was it relatively a short commute on the public transit system, but the description mentioned youth fitness and obesity/diabetes…

me this week was that of community and community connections. In this commentary I will first I will talk about the hindrances that face teachers that are not native to small town communities. I will also address the problems of partnering with colleges and universities while being in a rural setting. Last I will address the idea of sharing personal histories helping student connect to each other through their similarities and differences. This week’s topic of community connections has been a…

The community I have dedicated this project to is the community of Forney, because I have been in here since the second semester of 6th grade. This community has had many impacts on my life, either good or bad they were all learning experiences for my future. I mainly see this community as good, and I cannot judge it off of some bad experiences because, that would not be fair. I have come to learn Forney’s culture and what it can teach you if you watch and listen. To start with, the key…

Service learning, volunteerism, and community service are similar since they offer help with the needs of the environment to society or communities. While working on those needs, we get to learn and gain not only knowledge, but a formation of moral and civic values. By performing service learning, volunteerism, or a community service, we have the opportunity to interact with people who failed to get a job that month, people who do not have sufficient resources, and with members of communities…