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The many faces of service-learning

Pueblo Community College - CO, Colorado
President: Joe May
Contact Person: Service learning office web site: http://www.pcc.cccoes.edu/ser_net/welcome.htm

Service Learning at Pueblo Community College has many different faces. Both academic and vocational classes have included service in the curriculum. Math, English, Respiratory Therapy, Travel and Tourism, Occupational Therapy, Business Management, and Computer Information Systems have all had students doing a wide variety of service in the community.

Students have volunteered with nursing homes, ambulance companies, social services, police departments, museums, and chambers of commerce. We also have an AmeriCorps group here on campus involved in the CALI literature initiative. They have spent this academic year tutoring in elementary schools, working with the Boys and Girls Club, doing tutoring training and participating in various special projects such as National Dr. Seuss Day.

Service learning office web site: http://www.pcc.cccoes.edu/ser_net/welcome.htm

My own service-learning experience helped me to change my undergraduate major to social work. As a student worker with the program, I gained so many skills that helped me to be successful as a social worker and change agent after graduation. Now I help student workers develop these same skills and find the same passion for creating positive change that I have felt."

-Kim Jensen, Assistant Service-Learning Administrator, Marquette University

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