Community service is an integral part of the Carleton culture, and service learning is a growing movement on campus. The college’s civic engagement initiatives are organized by the Acting in the Community Together (ACT) office.
During the winter 2000 term, Phil Camill, assistant professor of biology, taught a class entitled “”Biology of Global Change”". With help from the two ACT service-learning student coordinators and an environmental studies intern, students experienced community-based learning in which they developed civic competencies and civic habits. They were given multiple opportunities to do the work of citizenship through real projects of impact and relevance that were linked to their academic learning.
Website: http://www.carleton.edu/campus/ACT/
Excerpted from Diversity Digest, Summer 2001
