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Engaged Learning is outreach to the community that proceeds from coursework and the curriculum. Using what you've learned to help others, enrich them, provide expert advice. Living out what you've learned!

The unlived life is not worth examining. -- Shelden Kopp
     
 

This work has been supported by the Suzanne and Richard Pieper Family Foundation
through a gift to Lawrence's endowment that established
the Pieper Chair of Servant Leadership.

 
     

Some Engaged Learning projects currently underway.

Partnership: Appleton Fire Department
This summer's intern is Beth Hoffman (LU '10) from Iola, Wisconsin. Beth will be implementing a home visit program of fire safety education in the Appleton community this summer. She will be working in a variety of cultural situations -- with Hmong and Latin families. Beth is majoring in Spanish and History.

 

 

  

C.A.D.Y.
(Confidence and Determination in Youth) has run two workshops for grade school students. February's program involved the sciences and mathematics; a recent program focussed on art, music, and writing. This group is planning a College Day to give students in grades 9-10 a taste of the college experience. We will put special emphasis on recruiting students who might not think of themselves as prospective college students.



Pragati Educational Foundation
JB Sivanich (LU '10) will be traveling to Bangalore, India this summer to help with English language instruction at an orphanage school.

  

Global Awareness
Professor Dena Skran and some of her students are in the early stages of planning a three-week trip to Sierra Leone to connect with a school she has been fundraising for. Lawrence students will experience the culture first-hand, engage in various service activities, and help distribute scholarship money.