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Unexpected Friendships: Why Intergenerational Relationships Are Important
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During the 2015 fall semester, undergraduate students at Clemson University made friendships with people four to five times their age. Led by Communication Professor Stephanie Pangborn, senior Communication students in their final semester took part in a service-learning project with Clemson Downs Retirement Community.
Faculty Spotlight: Why Synergy Learning?
Cassie Quigley, Assistant Professor of Science Education at Clemson University, offers some advice on why and how to dive into service learning.
Technology in the Classroom
In a world with rapidly developing technology, children are continually exposed to media at younger ages, and technology is becoming a centerpiece in everyday life. This includes its place in education as well.
Fighting Disease, One Experiment at a Time
Meredith Morris, an Assistant Professor in Genetics and Biochemistry, and her students are working hard to eliminate African Trypanosomiasis, one of Africa’s longest surviving parasites, through a service-learning course. Students in the spring 2016 CU INVEStors Creative Inquiry course were able to put knowledge learned in the classroom into real-life experience while working with teenagers at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, S.C.
Faculty Spotlight: Advocating for a Different Kind of Service
When most people think of service-learning, they picture students going out and taking physical action in the community but Clemson Sociology Professor Catherine Mobley wants to spread the focus of service learning, reaching beyond the traditional model of service to emphasize an advocacy-based approach.
Clemson Curates
Clemson Curates is a program designed to increase collaboration across the University community and to promote the arts throughout the region. Faculty partner with the Clemson Center for Visual Arts...
Self Service through Community Service
The Community Scholars Program emphasizes civic engagement and community leadership, offers recipients the opportunity to learn about civic and community life and allows students to combine public service activities with their Clemson experience.