Service-Learning in the News

 

2012 Articles

WSC Service-Learning Efforts Net Presidential Honor Roll for Community Service

 

 

2011 Articles

 

Nebraska colleges join public service network

 

Festival Provides Young Writers and Artist with Opportunity

 

A Day at the Library

 

Language Arts Festival Gives Students Learning Opportunities

 

Can We Have Class Outside?

 

WSC Red Cross Club Donates Pet CPR Manikins

 

2010 Articles

 

Collegial Congratulations!!

Past Service-Learning Coordinator and faculty member Dr. Jean Karlen along with office assistant Dawn Hirschman attended the conference and were recognized as the recipients of the Administration Commendation in Service-Learning Award. The award highlighted the dedication and perseverance that both Karlen and Hirschman have lent to the Service-Learning program at WSC.  Currently, the program is in its eleventh year of enhanced educational opportunities and service to area communities, the success of which is due in large part to Dr. Karlen and S-L budget manager Dawn Hirschman.

 

Students and Faculty Present at Annual Conference

~~Team members Jean Karlen and Dawn Hirschman win Administration Commendation In Service-Learning~~

 

Cram the Van Project for Hunger and Homelessness Week

 

National Geographic Giant Map of Asia Debuts at WSC

 

Annual Leadership Conference "Filled the Buckets" this Year

 

WSC Biology Club Works with 3rd-Graders at Izaak Lake (Pages 5 and 6)

 

Service-Learning Outreach Unites Campus and Community

 

Service-Learning Projects planned for National Hunger and Homelessness Week

 

Largest Floor Map of Asia to Make Debut at WSC

 

A Whole Lot of Asia

 

"Cram the Van" Fights Local Hunger

 

Holiday Open House to Feature Digitally Restored Photographs

 

"Cram the Van" Raises Awareness of Hunger and Homelessness

 

WSC Students Lend a Hand to Cedar County Historical Museum

 

Art Department Sponsors Art Expo for Veterans Memorial

~~This project raised over $3000 for the Wayne County Veterans Memorial

 

Bowls Filled with Emptiness

 

Collegiate Challege (Alternate Spring Break)

 

Kansas City Experience (Alternate Spring Break)

 

Orphan Grain Train

 

S.H.A.P.E. Club Encourages Healthy Habits

~~They had over 204 attendees for the 2010 Health and Wellness Fair!

 

Wayne County Veterans Memorial

 

WSC Receives $5000 in Grant Funds

 

WSC Wellness Fair is Set

 

WSC ITE Students Design Technology Lab for Winnebago Public School

 

Collegial Congratulations!!

Dr. Deborah Whitt, professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Wayne State College, and Dr. Wen-Chi Wu of Providence University in Taiwan, recently co-authored an article entitled "Symbiotic Learning Experiences for Intercultural Communication and English Foreign Language Students: An approach to Motivate Students to Speak and Write in Intercultural Contexts." The article appears in the newly-published textbook Best Practices in Experiential and Service Learning in Communication, edited by David W. Worley et. al. Initiated by the International Communication Association, the project was published by Great River Technologies.

 

EVENTS

Wayne State College was named in the 2012 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll!

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CONTACT

Lisa Nelson

Service-Learning Coordinator

eMail: linelso1@wsc.edu
(402) 375-7182

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