The University of Tennessee at Martin recently hosted the first meeting of the Tennessee Campus Compact, an organization that fosters programs encouraging faculty to create activities within courses designed to serve critical needs of community partners while deepening the learning of the students engaged in those activities.
The experience of interacting with some of the [homeless] people on the streets was an eye-opener. You leave those types of experiences with a mix of emotions--hope, disgust, love, grief--but I always leave motivated to do more.
-Taryn Anderson, Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA member, Capital University