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
By Lisa Randall and Noa Golan The Honors Program at Northeastern University, according to their website, connects its students “to an active community of thinkers committed to making a difference.” That community, in addition to including a highly talented and motivated group of students, faculty, peer mentors, and staff, also includes the communities surrounding… Continue reading Enhancing Honors with Service-Learning
By Lisa Randall From Monday November 16th to Wednesday November 18th 2015, leaders in service-learning and community engagement from around the world congregated at the Boston Marriott Copley Place for the 2015 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) conference. Northeastern University, in collaboration with Massachusetts Campus Compact, served as the… Continue reading Northeastern Hosts Conference on Revolutionary Scholarship on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
By Adrianna Graziano Ever since joining the Northeastern community, I have been an active participant in community service: first, exploring S-L my first semester in Professor Begley’s Inquiries in Cell and Molecular Biology course, then serving with the Americorps program Jumpstart, and now working as an S-L TA. After being an S-L student, the opportunity… Continue reading Transitioning from S-L student to an S-LTA
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