Service-Learning Teaching Assistants, Team Managers, and Street Team Members gain professional development in workshops at weekly meetings. By Lisa Randall “What’s good in life?” At the start of each large group Service-Learning student leader meeting, Assistant Director of Service-Learning at Northeastern Lisa Roe begins by posing this question to the group. Street Team members, Service-Learning… Continue reading Wednesday Nights with Service-Learning Student Leaders
Many of the community needs in Boston center around the city's youth and the desire for additional academic support. As such, a significant number of service-learning students are engaged in service that involves tutoring at after or in-school programs throughout the city. Building resources for our students to use so that they can serve confidently is… Continue reading Tutoring Tips Tuesday: Yaa Kyeremateng
By Katie Elliot Who are you and what are you doing here? This past week the faculty member who teaches the First-Year Writing section I am the Service-Learning Teaching Assistant for asked his students this question. Furthermore, Mark Edmundson asks all college students this question. Edmundson proclaims: “You can get a terrific education in America now—there… Continue reading Who are you and what are you doing here?
Northeastern Center of Community Service and the Massachusetts Promise Fellowship would like to thank all the participants, facilitators, and volunteers that helped make our 2016 MLK Day of Service and Leadership such a tremendous success! The event engaged over 300 NU students, local youth, AmeriCorps members, and community leaders in service projects and leadership workshops that focused… Continue reading TBT: MLK Day of Service & Leadership
From Wednesday, Feb. 3 to Sunday, Feb. 28, Service-Learning faculty member Jamal Thorne's artwork will be on display at Kingston Gallery in Boston's South End. Thorne's show, titled "Phantasmal Espionage," will include "a selection of monochromatic representational drawings" as well as a "site-specific wall drawing," according to the press released issued by Kingston Gallery. "This series," according… Continue reading Service-Learning Faculty member Jamal Thorne Displays “Phantasmal Espionage”
Northeastern Students4Giving is seeking proposals from 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations empowering at-risk and under-represented families to help their children thrive. One $10,000 grant will be awarded. Applicants’ work must demonstrably benefit, but need not be limited to, the Boston neighborhoods of Mission Hill, Fenway, Roxbury, and/or the South End. Applications are due by March 11, 2016. Click here for complete guidelines,… Continue reading Northeastern Students4Giving Announces Funding for Thriving Families & Children
By Benjamin Sanders Will you be spending some time tutoring this semester as part of your service-learning class? Check out former S-L student-turned Street Team member Ben Sanders' PROTIPS for tutoring. As an added bonus for S-L students serving with 826 Boston this semester, register now for their tutor training taking place tomorrow from 6:30-7:30pm!… Continue reading #PROTIPS from an S-L Tutor
By Jessica Iocca I have been engaged in service in the Boston community since the start of my Northeastern career, first through Strong Women Strong Girls during my first semester on campus and later through the Service-Learning program. These two programs in particular have been cornerstones of my time at Northeastern and given me just… Continue reading Integrating Service in the Post-Grad World
As so often happens with service, I came into this experience expecting to help an organization better their service, and instead the service ended up bettering me. By Kaela Chevalier This fall I had the opportunity to participate in my first service-learning project at Northeastern. As a graduate student, I am taking an elective course… Continue reading The Importance of Undergraduate Service
By Kris Fernandez, Lisa Randall, Shelby Sih, and Savannah Stewart The Northeastern University Honors Program and Service-Learning at Northeastern built upon their unique partnership this semester with the addition of three new courses. Northeastern Students and Boston-Area Youth See Theatre with an Enlightened Eye For a group of 15 Honors students, the art of theatre… Continue reading A Look at Three New Honors Service-Learning Courses
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