UTA’s Center for Community Service Learning, in partnership with State Farm Insurance, is hosting a Summer Service Learning Institute to promote and enact academic service learning as a team of educators, students, and community partners in order to build strong communities.
Join in combining academic rigor, civic engagement, and personal development as we ensure learning and improve our communities.
Date: August 3–6, 2009
Time: 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Location: University of Texas at Arlington,
College of Business Administration Building, Room 609
We invite teacher-student teams (1-2 educators and 3-5 students) from selected local high schools to register. Continuing Education Credit is available to all educators.
What is Service Learning?
Service Learning is a teaching methodology that combines conventional academic instruction with participation in direct, meaningful community service. The concept is designed to develop critical and reflective thinking skills and to promote a sense of civic responsibility and commitment to the community.
- Picking up trash on a riverbank is service.
- Studying water samples under a microscope is learning.
- When science students collect and analyze water samples, document their results, and present findings to a local pollution control agency …
that is service-learning.
Featured Speaker
Nadinne Cruz
For over 25 years, Nadinne Cruz has been a practitioner, leader, advocate, speaker, and author on the need for pedagogies of engagement in higher education. Her early volunteer experiences with peasants in the Philippines and her Filipina-American immigrant consciousness of domestic and international issues inspire her work in education. With a distinguished career serving educational institutes such as Stanford and Swarthmore College, Nadinne now works as an Independent Consultant with a variety of colleges and universities.
Our Partner
Since 1922, State Farm has been dedicated to helping build safe, strong, and educated communities. The Good Neighbor Service-Learning Initiative helps to support the practice of service-learning through the development of mutually beneficial partnerships among schools, businesses and communities.
State Farm Philosophy: To help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams.
The State Farm Good Neighbor Service Learning Initiative
The State Farm Education Excellence
Visitor Information
Parking location, permits and detailed information are provided upon registration.
For more information:
Sharon Hughlett
Center for Community Service Learning
University of Texas at Arlington
Phone: 817-272-2124
Fax: 817-272-7626
E-mail: hughlett@uta.edu
