Creators: Thomas Bishop, Juliana Bizarria Silva, Junyu Yang, Nishaila Porter Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation The student team was tasked with creating an evaluation plan for their community partner HRI (Homeowners Rehab Inc.). The evaluation assesses HRI’s scholarship program which provides financial support to residents pursuing higher education at a two or four-year undergraduate…
Creators: Allison Kenny, Lia McDonald, Emelyn Miller, Fiona Pierce, Kpannah Cooper-Kelvin Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation The student team was tasked with creating an evaluation plan for their community partner GROW (Girls Reflecting Our World). The primary purpose of the evaluation is to measure the impact of GROW and its programs on the community….
Creators: Samantha Caracciolo, Sophara Eang, Christina Kasauskas, Jack McVeety Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation The student team was tasked with creating an evaluation plan for the Cambridge Public Health Department. The purpose of their evaluation is to understand the impact of the mini-grants program – which allows applicants leading local health programs to apply…
Creators: Catherine Clement & Clara Copp-LaRocque Course: PPUA6509 Techniques of Program Evaluation The student team was tasked with creating an evaluation plan for their community partner Bream. The purpose of their evaluation was to gather quantitative data regarding the efficacy of Bream’s virtual classes and also to compare physical, mental, and emotional health indicators in…
Creators: Nicole Milnes, Pooja Nandhyala, Lindsay Navick Course: HONR3310 Contemporary Issues in Healthcare For their final project, students described and addressed real community-based healthcare concerns that relate to their Service-Learning experiences. Through a needs assessment, students identify the issues that impact a specific community based on the broad themes covered in class, i.e. health literacy,…
Creator: Joie Kelly Course: GE1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1, GE1502 Cornerstones of Engineering 2 A compilation of the first-year student’s reflections on service learning this past semester!…
Creators: Bella Lee, Azalea Murray, Nia Simmons Course: ENGW1114 First-Year Writing with Service-Learning The students in first year writing focused on how to utilize writing to speak about and challenge complex problems. In this assignment, students were asked to look at how each of the community partners they’ve been working with this semester fit into…
Creator: Annica Kim Course: GRMN2101 Intermediate German I, GRMN2102 Intermediate German 2 Our students had the opportunity to meet with elders living in Germany twice this semester and hold conversations with them to practice their conversational German and to learn more about their partner’s lives. These intercultural meetings aimed to alleviate isolation that many elders…
Creators: Richard Fierro, Tim Gilman, & Aubrey Woods Course: PPUA7673 Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs The final deliverable this group was tasked with was to identify how district 4 take its business corridors to the next level, the types of barriers and challenges that exist for these businesses and the opportunities that exist…
Creators: Jania Brown, Jaelyn Batts, Zoe Ronkin, Jaidan Inniss, May Vaughn Course: AFRS2325 Black Feminist Studies This semester our Service-Learning volunteers worked with Boston-founded organization Sitters for Scholars-a first of its kind organization working to provide free babysitting services for single-parent and low income parents working toward their college degrees. Each week our students worked…