S-L Student & Faculty Reflections

Our Experiences as S-LTA vs S-L student vs S-L Street Team Member (Part 2)

How did you first get introduced to the world of S-L? I first got introduced to S-L during my first-year college writing English class. We mainly had discussions about what home meant to us and to a community. We explored this more by partnering up with Little Brothers Friends of The Eldely, a nonprofit organization… Continue reading Our Experiences as S-LTA vs S-L student vs S-L Street Team Member (Part 2)

S-L Student & Faculty Reflections

Our Experiences as S-LTA vs S-L student vs S-L Street Team Member (Part 1)

Written by Street Team Member Madhumita Rao Street Team members Rosa Martinez and I have both been involved in the service-learning world at Northeastern University for a while; in fact, we have both been S-L students and S-LTAs in the past and are currently on the S-L Street Team. In this post, I answer questions… Continue reading Our Experiences as S-LTA vs S-L student vs S-L Street Team Member (Part 1)

Community

Bringing Service-Learning to Student Organizations

Written by Street Team Member Rosa Martinez Service-Learning provides a great opportunity for students to bring materials from their service-learning course into other areas of their lives.  Avery Collard, an undergraduate student studying psychology, began her journey of volunteering back in high school. At Northeastern, she is a service-learning student in a course called Writing… Continue reading Bringing Service-Learning to Student Organizations

Community

Resilience: Food Access in our Communities

Written by CETR Program Associate, Chelsea Lauder For Community-Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR) at Northeastern, our Spring 2020 semester was interrupted, alongside the rest of the world, by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has highlighted existing issues for food access and security in our Boston communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston Food… Continue reading Resilience: Food Access in our Communities

Rewards & Recognitions

Community-Engaged Faculty Scholarship & In the News: 2020-2021

Even as the world stopped with the onslaught of COVID-19 - the research, scholarship, and spotlighting of our community-engaged faculty network has not. This post shares the scholarship and news features of our 2020-2021 service-learning course faculty members. While it is only a sampling, it is an incredible list that showcases the innovative and important… Continue reading Community-Engaged Faculty Scholarship & In the News: 2020-2021

Archive

5 Ways to Stay Engaged With Your Community During COVID-19

By S-L Street Team Members Madhumita Rao and Rosa Martinez Over the last 11 months, life has been different due to the pandemic. Although on-site volunteering has decreased, it is still possible to engage with the community in other ways. In fact, this unprecedented time is when many organizations in the Boston area are understaffed… Continue reading 5 Ways to Stay Engaged With Your Community During COVID-19