2011-2012 Community Service Learning Reports

It's great to be able to share good news!  In the academic year just past, USM students provided a total of 71,779 reported community service learning hours, impacting the community in areas including community and public service, support for persons with disabilities, domestic/sexual violence prevention, environmental, health, hunger and homelessness, education/youth, and more -- benefitting over 1,000 K-12 students through mentoring and tutoring alone!  Twenty-eight faculty members taught 44 academic courses that reported engaging students in service learning, with 927 students learning by serving in community partner settings.  The "monetized"  value of all reported student service to the community is $1,208,768.06!

 

The full reports are here: www.usm.maine.edu/community. I offer public congratulations and thanks to our Programs Coordinator and AmeriCorps VISTA member Stacy Normand, who authored the Impact Report; to Alicia (Sampson) Ethridge, Service Learning Coordinator, who worked with faculty and students to incorporate service learning into courses; to Belana Warmflash, Mentoring Coordinator, who worked with King Middle School and Portland High School to match and support mentors; and to Sherry Whittemore, Education and Community Coordinator, who provided training and support for students serving in K-12 schools and after school programs, for their critical contributions to this work. 

 

I invite you to share the news, and ask us how  you can get involved as we move forward, delivering on the USM promise of "engaged learning that transforms lives and communities!"

 

 

 

Andrea Thompson McCall, Director

-Community Service Learning

-Religious and Spiritual Life

University of Southern Maine

P.O. Box 9300

Portland, ME 04104-9300

 

Phone 207-228-8284

FAX 207-228-8403