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Welcome!

Engaged Learning is outreach to the community that proceeds from coursework. 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.
The Foundation is planning an additional gift -- read about it in our blog.

 
     
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Some Engaged Learning projects currently underway.

C.A.D.Y. (Confidence and Determination in Youth) A new student group, led by Jessica Bonsall and others wants to inspire children with a love of learning. They are planning workshops at Lawrence for grade school children to sample the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. Their first workshop on March 1 has attracted over 70 children!

 

language studyLanguage and culture.
Some foreign lanuage majors at LU are developing presentations for elementary school students to introduce some aspects of foreign language and culture. The goal is to use Lawrence student expertise to supplement the school curriculum.

safetyUrban Planning A Lawrence student will undertake an internship project to evaluate and improve the safety education strategy of the Appleton Fire Department.
Photograph taken by Henry Sung. Copyright the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service.

  

global cultureGlobal Awareness Professor Dena Skran and some of her students will replicate a western African village to school audiences as part of multiculural events in the schools. The OEL is helping fund this project.

textual analysisWe're in the process of helping to establish the Center for Community Engagement, linking campus offices on the academic and student affairs sides of Lawrence to help support outreach and volunteer projects among students, faculty, and staff.

 

Srawling vineYour Project Here!
How can you use the expertise you've developed in your coursework to help someone in the broader community?