Warm up Guide for Community Exercise Class

This warm-up guide was created based on exercises that students have found to be effective as they led weekly exercise classes with a variety of community partners. This serves not only as an artifact of student’s experiences this semester, but also as a blueprint for future students to utilize. Artifact:…

The Impacts of Making STEM Education Fun & Accessible

In an effort to represent the volunteering done by the students in Professor McElligott’s Inquiries in Biological Sciences: Stem Cells, this slide deck shows photos of activities that encouraged STEM learning as well as service-learning volunteers’ reflections on their service-learning experiences. Artifact:…

PPUA Capstone

A peek into who the capstone students worked with and what their projects entailed. Artifact:…

Policy analysis regarding volunteering & training of staff responsible for community fridge management in Boston

Throughout the Spring 2024 semester, graduate public policy students collaborated with Sage Carbone from Fenway CDC on three policy issues: 1) Volunteering 2) Marketing & 3) Regulation. Team 1’s presentation focuses on policy recommendations to increase volunteer knowledge, retention, ease of signing up, and more! Through interviews, research, and conversations with stakeholders of community fridges,…

Policy Analysis for Dress for Success DC

Illustrating slide and essay detailing the policy analysis conducted for Dress for Success DC, along with a reflection video by the students. Our reasons for choosing to present our artifact are twofold: Writing and illustration offer a traditional, detailed approach to demonstrating the concept of policy analysis. This allows for a holistic view of the…

The South End Neighborhood Mapping Project

The goal of this exercise is to continue developing a strengths-based perspective on the neighborhoods surrounding the classes service learning tutoring sites. To develop this understanding of what communities, families, and students bring to our classrooms and schools, students observed the communities during their commutes, researched the surrounding neighborhoods, and asked questions of people connected…

Food Reform in Prison Systems

The side deck shows how students explore the issue of food injustice in the prison system. Link to Presentation: View…