Tag Service learning
Nine projects win Wisconsin Idea Fellowships
The projects, which are all rooted in the concept of addressing needs identified by community partners, range in topic from food insecurity, the disparity in education, civic responsibility and more. Read More
Earlise Ward named new director of Morgridge Center for Public Service
The Morgridge Center connects students, staff and faculty to local and global communities to build partnerships and address critical issues through service and learning. Read More
Chancellor’s Convocation to welcome students, encourage service
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank will mark the beginning of a new academic year with the Chancellor's Convocation, an annual welcome to incoming freshmen and transfer students. Read More
Law students provide free legal services to New Orleans residents in need
Fifteen UW Law School students spent a week of their winter break in New Orleans, where they provided free legal services to residents in need. Read More
Go Big Read seeks titles focused on service for 2014-15 program
Here at home and around the world, people are called to serve their countries, their communities and other missions. Some volunteer, some are drafted, and others find themselves pressed into service by their circumstances. Read More
UW service-learning project wins United Nations award
An award from the United Nations is honoring the work of Araceli Alonso, a senior lecturer in Gender and Women's Studies and a faculty associate at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Morgridge Center awards $300,000 in grants to engaged scholarship projects
The Morgridge Center for Public Service has awarded eight matching grants totaling $301,737 to support service learning and community-based research by UW–Madison faculty and researchers in the areas of education, environment, health, civic journalism, and law. Read More
Summit celebrates community-engaged learning, research
For University of Wisconsin–Madison student Chloe Brown, taking the stage at the Morgridge Engaged Scholarship Summit isn't just an opportunity to present the results of her research on mentorship. Read More
Course adds to environmental awareness
Ph.D. student in literary studies Todd Goddard has found a way to unite his concern for the environment with his teaching. In his section of English 201, he provides 16 students with real-world communications experience while giving 11 local nonprofits some much-needed help. In the process, he helps increase environmental awareness among his students and the audiences they serve. Read More
UW-Madison receives national service award
For the second year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service has honored the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities. Read More
The Wisconsin Experience in Motion: Physical Therapy in Belize
As part of her semester break, Dean of Students Lori Berquam has accompanied three UW–Madison faculty members and four students on a two-week service-learning trip to Punta Gorda, Belize. Read More
Student’s vision comes to life in Honduras
One of the failings of university learning is that the work of students is often left on the shelf. Assignments, though faithfully completed, rarely make it out of the theoretical. Read More
New program encourages students to become social entrepreneurs
Can one person change the world? The Kauffman Entrepreneurial Community Internship Program (KECIP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison allows both grads and undergrads an opportunity to utilize skills and knowledge gained in the classroom to become catalysts for social change -- and to get paid for doing it. Read More
Service-learning courses reveal real-world issues
Service-learning courses bridge the gap between academia and the “real world” by providing students an opportunity to work at locations within the Madison community where their experiences relate to course material. Read More
Engineers Without Borders
Watch a WISC-TV For the Record episode that features UW–Madison’s Engineers Without Borders program. Read More
Notable graduates: Craig Kohn — A passion for agricultural education
In the process of applying for grants to conduct his own environmental research, Craig Kohn was asked to take the lead on implementing an environmental education program through the Wisconsin Future Farmers of America (FFA) Association. Unenthusiastic at first, Kohn soon discovered his passion for education. Read More
Class works to protect Wisconsin lakes in service learning project
The mention of Eurasian water-milfoil and zebra mussels in Dominique Brossard's strategic communication class last February had students rolling their eyes and swapping puzzled looks. But after a semester of carefully tailoring multimedia campaigns to help a Wisconsin non-profit group get the word out about lake preservation, that initial bewilderment was replaced by an enthusiasm that could help keep state lakes free of invasive species. Read More
Pi Mile Run benefits well water project in El Salvador
As 255 University of Wisconsin–Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along Lake Mendota. Read More
UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system
New Year's Eve in Nejapa, El Salvador, looks a lot like the Fourth of July. At Griselda Guzman's house, homemade fireworks lighted the front yard, where the guests dancing outside her pale yellow home included 11 University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering students and three advisers. Read More
UW-Madison makes presidential honor roll for community service
The University of Wisconsin–Madison was named this week to the 2007 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction for its efforts to promote community service and service learning on its campus. Read More