Name: Taylor Drysdale Role within Service-Learning: S-L Student, Teaching Assistant, & Alumni College Affiliation: College of Science, College of Professional Studies Major: Psychology (and candidate for Masters in Elementary Education) Minor: Spanish How are your values expressed through your community engagement and Service-Learning work? I've always tried my best to keep my life centered around... Continue Reading →
Video Interview by S-L Street Team Member Joy Tang https://youtu.be/G5r941blqrU Learn more about Service-Learning Street Team member Lauren Silva in this video installment of our #CapturingCommunity series! Excerpt by S-L Street Team Member Arunkumar Prabhakaran Lauren was first introduced to Service-Learning during her time in the N.U.in program in Greece during Fall 2016. When she... Continue Reading →
College Affiliation: COS & CSSHMajor: PsychologyMinor: Cultural Anthropology & Global Social Entrepreneurship Name: Waverly JacksonRole within Service-Learning: S-L Teaching Assistant How are your values expressed through your community engagement and Service-Learning work?I have strong values in being empathetic, working hard, and fostering inclusion. Service-Learning, a pathway to community engagement, has allowed me to further strengthen... Continue Reading →
Written by Service-Learning Team Manager Anika Krause Education in the Community was my first introduction to service-learning. It was my very first class on my very first day of my freshman year, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Education in the Community was the first class I was an S-LTA for and, this past semester,... Continue Reading →
By Joanne Choi Joanne Choi is a student in Education in the Community, a service-learning course. The following is a reflection she wrote about a service experience while volunteering at 826 Boston. *= Name change for privacy purposes What: It was October 27, and I was coming in for a volunteer shift at my Service-Learning site... Continue Reading →
By Sarah Meakin As Service-Learners in the field of education, we seek not only to serve the students of Boston as tutors, but also to learn from them and the community. Our S-L class, Education in the Community, had the privilege of learning from Bostonian activist and author Susan Naimark, who lead a lecture and discussion... Continue Reading →
By Ben Sanders This week, I had the pleasure of being able to sit down and chat with Professor Attwood, a long-time member of the Service-Learning Program, about the way service-learning melds with her course: Education in the Community. Professor Attwood graciously described the course to me, as someone who hasn't taken it before, and... Continue Reading →
By Mackenzie Montgomery Before I entered Northeastern University I had never heard of service-learning. But as a freshman I learned that I would not only be studying abroad my first semester in London through the N.U.in program, but I would also be doing something known as service-learning. Little did I know that this part of... Continue Reading →
