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Faculty: there’s still time for service-learning enrollment

January 25, 2021 by Kathy Nordyke

Faculty – let your students know it’s not too late to enroll in a 1-credit Service-Learning course for the spring of 2021 with no late fees. Service-learning is a great way for students to connect what they are learning in your class with real-world experiences. The Registrar’s Office allows enrollment for a 1-credit service-learning course throughout the semester. There is no deadline as long as students can complete their 40 hours with a community partner learning site. Please encourage your students to consider service-learning.  We have great placement opportunities that include, but are not limited to:

    1. Clinical Students – BIO/BMS – Work with the Diabetic Retinopathy program – We still need about 20 students – hands on clinical care
    2. Clinical and Social Work/Sociology/Psychology Students – Work with Empower Abilities (formerly the Southwest Center for Independent Living) to work with some 600 patients and their caregivers doing well checks/clinical assessments/scheduling for COVID vaccine – flexible hours, hands-on (remote); training provided.  Opportunity for Social Work students to work on Policy issues with Jefferson City folks (remotely) to address access to care for those with disabilities
    3. Clinical, Education, Social Work, Sociology students – MSU Vision Screening program (training provided); must be available in the morning from 8 AM to Noon – just one morning per week will help
    4. All Students – especially, education students in math, science, reading literacy, foreign language, social studies, students in English, students in other academic areas. Be part of the “million-word gap” – a national initiative that will provide reading literacy for children at an early age through the age of 10. Service-learning students will be remote reading buddies. Service-learning students will select a book or books based on the age grade they select (the book can be a book at math, or science, or nutrition, or health, or being hospitalized, – any topic – read the book and write a short synopsis about the book, and then record themselves reading the book. Students in foreign language courses can select a book(s) read/record aloud the book in their course language (Spanish, French, etc.) along with recording the book in the English language. These recordings will be housed in a national database that will be accessible to parents and K-12 teachers, after-school programs, etc., around the world to improve reading literacy. Research shows that children who have books read to them develop a much larger vocabulary and are further along in reading development. Missouri State University is spearheading this endeavor for the National Service-Learning Organization. This project will be featured in the National Service-Learning conference.
    5. Springfield Community Gardens – 4 programs: 1) Medical Gardens – partnership with Cox Health; 2) General Gardens – working to bring people out of poverty and reduce food insecurity; 3) Nutrition Program for Homeless through Lift Up Springfield/Springfield Community Gardens/Cox; 4) Beginning Farm/Ranch program for Veterans in partnership with US Dept of Ag, Veterans Administration.
    6. All Students – K9s for Camo – a new partnership program this semester that works with our students in several areas including management, training of service-dogs, marketing, grant-writing, etc. The goal of this program is to provide service-dogs for military individuals and/or their family members in need.

These are just a few of the placement opportunities that we have available this semester.  We know that students enrolled in service-learning courses benefit from hands-on experiences that connect to their learning.  Please encourage your students to reach out to our office at: servicelearning@missouristate.edu or schedule a time to meet with one of our advisors and get started with service-learning: https://www.missouristate.edu/CASL/contact-information.htm

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