You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students
Service-learning is recognized by colleges and universities for its benefits to students; however, locating partners for course-specific service-learning projects and ways to manage these projects within a class can be a complex challenge for faculty. This challenge is magnified when faculty strive...
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| description | Service-learning is recognized by colleges and universities for its benefits to students; however, locating partners for course-specific service-learning projects and ways to manage these projects within a class can be a complex challenge for faculty. This challenge is magnified when faculty strive to maintain course-specific objectives while providing students with a service experience within a limited and sparsely populated geographic area. Following Lesnick (2010), our solution to this challenge was to look within our campus for partners. Using word-of-mouth and other networking skills, we identified two non-teaching units
and one class unit as partners for student service-learning projects. Through careful coordination and vigilant planning, we were able to achieve course-specific activities for students to help prepare them for future jobs in business and industry and provide a service to our on-campus partners. This article explains our process and provides both the pitfalls and benefits of working with on-campus partners. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3295f1b150b43b4879a5c7f44d5940f2023-09-29T16:10:37ZengMississippi State UniversityJournal of Human Sciences and Extension2325-52262022-01-01103https://doi.org/10.55533/2325-5226.1433You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies StudentsDoris H. Kincade 0Oscar J. Solis 1Windi D. Turner 2Virginia Tech West Texas A&M University The Villages University Service-learning is recognized by colleges and universities for its benefits to students; however, locating partners for course-specific service-learning projects and ways to manage these projects within a class can be a complex challenge for faculty. This challenge is magnified when faculty strive to maintain course-specific objectives while providing students with a service experience within a limited and sparsely populated geographic area. Following Lesnick (2010), our solution to this challenge was to look within our campus for partners. Using word-of-mouth and other networking skills, we identified two non-teaching units and one class unit as partners for student service-learning projects. Through careful coordination and vigilant planning, we were able to achieve course-specific activities for students to help prepare them for future jobs in business and industry and provide a service to our on-campus partners. This article explains our process and provides both the pitfalls and benefits of working with on-campus partners. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/jhse/vol10/iss3/9/service-learningon-campusfashion merchandisingconsumer studiescase studies |
| spellingShingle | Doris H. Kincade Oscar J. Solis Windi D. Turner You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students Journal of Human Sciences and Extension service-learning on-campus fashion merchandising consumer studies case studies |
| title | You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students |
| title_full | You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students |
| title_fullStr | You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students |
| title_short | You Want Your Students to Do Service-Learning Where? On-Campus Options for Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Studies Students |
| title_sort | you want your students to do service learning where on campus options for fashion merchandising and consumer studies students |
| topic | service-learning on-campus fashion merchandising consumer studies case studies |
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