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OR (8/29/2011)
http://chronicle.com/article/Honored-Professor-Developed/128813/
When Sherril B. Gelmon was designing her first course at the University of Toronto medical school in the mid-1980s, she had never heard of service learning. But the most effective way for her health-management students to understand public health, she knew, was to learn from the community around them. So for her new course, on evaluating health programs, she sent her students into the city to measure the effectiveness of local health projects.
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I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC.
-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader
