Community-Engaged Learning News

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  Natalie DeCesare SU ‘19 Honored as a 2018 Newman Civic Fellow

  The Newman Civic Fellowship  “recognizes and supports community-committed students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country.” 

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  Spring Breakaway 2018

  Three groups of SU students traveled to communities across the country to engage in direct service and learn about complex social justice issues.

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  Spring Breakaway 2018

  Three groups of SU students traveled to communities across the country to engage in direct service and learn about complex social justice issues.

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  It’s Up to Us

  As the campus leader of the Southwestern University Up to Us team, I had the opportunity to travel to Oakland to participate in the winter training session. Going into the weekend, I knew the purpose of the session was to prepare each team leader, but I did not know how they would achieve this. 

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  A BiG Change of Perspective

  During the spring semester of my senior year, I took the community-engaged learning course “Survey of Exceptionalities” with Dr. Alicia Moore, which examined special education, the stigmas that surround it, and the policy that influences it. Students got to choose the location that they wanted to volunteer with. Most chose to be in a special education classroom within local elementary schools, but I chose to spend my time with the citizens of BiG: Brookwood in Georgetown, “a community where adults with intellectual challenges are celebrated and empowered by engaging their talents in meaningful work.”

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  What is the GEH?

  The Global Engagement Hall, or as students refer to it “The GEH,” is a community of sophomores, soon to be open to all upper-classmen, that helps students get the most out of their Southwestern experience.

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  Hurricane Harvey Recovery

  As Hurricane Harvey moves through TX’s gulf coast, many are looking for ways to help. As you move toward action-oriented response to this natural disaster, please consider these tips to make well-informed, responsible decisions.

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  Teresa Coble Sherwood ’77, Distinguished Humanitarian

  With her degree in psychology from Southwestern, Teresa Coble Sherwood ’77 has served for nearly 20 years as Director of Mission at First United Methodist Church Mansfield, where she has developed and overseen global mission and disaster response efforts around the world, as well as programs to respond to the needs of the local community.

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  What Is a CELTA?

  Community Engaged Learning Teaching Assistants are students who support the civic engagement pedagogy that is strongly applied at Southwestern by supporting a faculty member involved in community engaged learning.

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  Making the President’s Honor Roll

  Southwestern has received national recognition for interfaith community service, the highest recognition of any school in Texas