Through experiential education. 5 th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns @ Notre Dame Direct Urban Plunge Co-Direct Minor in Catholic.

Through experiential education

5th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns @ Notre Dame

Direct Urban Plunge Co-Direct Minor in Catholic Social

Tradition Teach CBL course: Poverty & Politics Worked in Chicago & DC beforehand Connect the 2 Feet: Need both

26 years: “learning becomes service to justice”

Facilitates community-based learning, research & service thru CST

Over 15,000 participants in seminars

Through experiential education, assist students in developing proposed solutions to the systemic problems of poverty

Provide a replicable model of community-based learning in higher education

Provide a mechanism to engage alumni networks in summer internships

Engage creativity in more deeply engaging non-profits

Community-based learning & research Community Partners Summer Internships Alumni Networks

Poverty & Politics – 3 credit Over 20 courses internal - 1 credit

Urban Plunge Appalachia Children & Poverty Border Issues

Around 100 cbl across curriculum – 3 credit

Summer Service courses – 3 credit

Why so many poor in the U.S.? Why care? Seek solutions to causes of poverty Interdisciplinary: humanities, arts, social

sciences Team taught; focus on developing oral

skills Students participate weekly in 1 of 4 non-

profits addressing poverty Community-based learning coordinators

6 in local partner agencies AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist Center for the Homeless La Casa de Amistad Logan Center Robinson Community Learning Center Sr. Maura Brannick Clinic

Pay part of their salary: depending on volume of students Help students find placements w/ agencies Meet needs of students & agencies Assist faculty in creating cbl opportunities Individual & course-related placements Trying to develop courses & research out of agency needs

8 week service learning course Over 240 students to over 110 sites

nationally 3 credit & $2,300 tuition credit Funded through alumni clubs: alumni

contact Orientation/Spring; Reading & Writing w/

Immersion/Summer; Follow-up Session/Fall

8 week summer service learning course 42 students in 12 countries in so.

Hemisphere 3 credit & $1000 stipend; travel

covered

What models are you using to address poverty through experiential education?

Are there similarities or differences?

What did you hear at your tables? What further questions did you have?