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Addressing the heart of poverty

Through experiential education. Addressing the heart of poverty. 5 th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns @ Notre Dame Direct Urban Plunge Co-Direct Minor in Catholic Social Tradition Teach CBL course: Poverty & Politics Worked in Chicago & DC beforehand

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Addressing the heart of poverty

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  1. Through experiential education Addressing the heart of poverty

  2. 5th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns @ Notre Dame Direct Urban Plunge Co-Direct Minor in Catholic Social Tradition Teach CBL course: Poverty & Politics Worked in Chicago & DC beforehand Connect the 2 Feet: Need both background

  3. 26 years: “learning becomes service to justice” Facilitates community-based learning, research & service thru CST Over 15,000 participants in seminars Center for Social Concerns

  4. Through experiential education, assist students in developing proposed solutions to the systemic problems of poverty Goal

  5. Provide a replicable model of community-based learning in higher education Provide a mechanism to engage alumni networks in summer internships Engage creativity in more deeply engaging non-profits Objectives for workshop

  6. Community-based learning & research Community Partners Summer Internships Alumni Networks Mechanisms for Addressing poverty

  7. Poverty & Politics – 3 credit • Over 20 courses internal - 1 credit • Urban Plunge • Appalachia • Children & Poverty • Border Issues • Around 100 cbl across curriculum – 3 credit • Summer Service courses – 3 credit Seminars addressing Poverty

  8. Why so many poor in the U.S.? Why care? Seek solutions to causes of poverty Interdisciplinary: humanities, arts, social sciences Team taught; focus on developing oral skills Students participate weekly in 1 of 4 non-profits addressing poverty Community-based learning coordinators Poverty & Politics

  9. 6 in local partner agencies • AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist • Center for the Homeless • La Casa de Amistad • Logan Center • Robinson Community Learning Center • Sr. Maura Brannick Clinic • Pay part of their salary: depending on volume of students • Help students find placements w/ agencies • Meet needs of students & agencies • Assist faculty in creating cbl opportunities • Individual & course-related placements • Trying to develop courses & research out of agency needs Community-Based Learning Coordinators

  10. 8 week service learning course Over 240 students to over 110 sites nationally 3 credit & $2,300 tuition credit Funded through alumni clubs: alumni contact Orientation/Spring; Reading & Writing w/ Immersion/Summer; Follow-up Session/Fall Summer service learning program

  11. 8 week summer service learning course 42 students in 12 countries in so. Hemisphere 3 credit & $1000 stipend; travel covered International SSLP

  12. What models are you using to address poverty through experiential education? Are there similarities or differences? Questions

  13. What did you hear at your tables? What further questions did you have? Discussion

  14. Thanks

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