Youth Development Systems Map

In groups, students created systems maps that were related to an issue a local nonprofit organization is working on to effect change. These maps give a visual overview of the system that these organizations are working within and represent students’ emerging understanding of these systems. At the end of the semester, these maps were used…

Building A Community Through Telling Stories

This artifact contains descriptions from students in this course of their favorite experiences through service-learning and photos of students interacting with members at our Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly community engagement sites. Our class focused on building strong relationships with our community partners through storytelling. This artifact represents the key elements of the…

Child Intervention and Treatment Mind Maps

On the last day of class, our students all got into groups and created visual and written maps related to terms from our course. They connected their service experiences to these course concepts, as well as to other experiences from the course. Artifact:…

Content Development for Boston Bridge Final Project Presentation

This is the final presentation of Public Relations course, PBR6130, which presents the content that was created by Husky Communications graduate students on behalf of our community partner, Boston Bridge. This work was also informed by two previous courses (PR Research and PR Strategy and Planning) that produced research and insight into what Boston Bridge…

Marketing Plan for the Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology

In the Marketing and Society course, students are grouped and work with a pro-social organization for the duration of the semester. The objective of this project is to formulate a marketing plan that applies the concepts, methods, and critical thinking introduced in class. Each group aims to assist their partner organization in promoting social change…

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:…