2020: Student Success and the Public Good
Presentation Title
Spreading the Word in Siouxland: Disaster Relief and Immigrant Services
Keywords
community engagement; student impacts
Description
Presenters offer insight from two project-based community engagement experiences in the tri-state area known as “Siouxland”. Morningside College undergraduate student Jemar Lee shares how his Project Siouxland course team created a public service announcement to be used by the local United Way to inform residents of grant money available for disaster relief. His work with the non-profit organization Education Reimagined helped advocate for more learner-centered educational opportunities, like Project Siouxland. Kiki Bennett shares her work designing Spanish-language materials for an immigrant-serving organization. Her community-engaged Spanish coursework impacted her communication skills and shaped her personal and professional goals. Institutional structures can facilitate or limit learning, and community engagement crucially expanded students' understanding of diverse populations and influenced their plans to impact the public good as future professionals. Stacey Alex, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Morningside College, provides an instructor’s perspective on the possibilities for expanding community engagement in Siouxland and institutional plans for continuing to integrate the humanities in the community. She addresses how building reciprocal relationships invites students to see their community as a source of knowledge as well as develop a strong sense of purpose and relevance.
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Spreading the Word in Siouxland: Disaster Relief and Immigrant Services
Presenters offer insight from two project-based community engagement experiences in the tri-state area known as “Siouxland”. Morningside College undergraduate student Jemar Lee shares how his Project Siouxland course team created a public service announcement to be used by the local United Way to inform residents of grant money available for disaster relief. His work with the non-profit organization Education Reimagined helped advocate for more learner-centered educational opportunities, like Project Siouxland. Kiki Bennett shares her work designing Spanish-language materials for an immigrant-serving organization. Her community-engaged Spanish coursework impacted her communication skills and shaped her personal and professional goals. Institutional structures can facilitate or limit learning, and community engagement crucially expanded students' understanding of diverse populations and influenced their plans to impact the public good as future professionals. Stacey Alex, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Morningside College, provides an instructor’s perspective on the possibilities for expanding community engagement in Siouxland and institutional plans for continuing to integrate the humanities in the community. She addresses how building reciprocal relationships invites students to see their community as a source of knowledge as well as develop a strong sense of purpose and relevance.
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