Learning social responsibility through service
Regular mentor workshops bring teachers together to discuss and share how they design and run their courses, and that exchange between mentors gives rise to a wider range of learning designs.
Service learning joins service and learning together: students learn through the act of serving. NCU's Service Learning Development Center works with service learning mentors to design courses around a four-part structure — preparation, service, reflection and celebration — and raises the quality of those courses through workshops, inter-class collaboration and community service lectures. Students respond warmly. As one wrote: "Our mentor invited many professionals to speak. Seeing them solve social problems with their own expertise keeps alive the wish to make my work count for something."
7 mentors
Assistant Professor · Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Learn by doing, do by learning; explore boldly and build confidence.Read reflection
Professor · Department of Hakka Language and Social Sciences
Care for society with kindness; serve others with warmth.View profile
Associate Professor · Department of Mechanical Engineering
Let expertise meet the real world, and change something for the better.View profile
Assistant Professor · Center for General Education
Learn through service: understand one another, and truly see other people.View profile
Assistant Professor · Center for General Education
Life is short. If you want to do it, do it.View profile
Assistant Professor · Department of Life Sciences
Grow through serving together; in lifting others you make something of yourself.Read reflection
Assistant Professor · Bachelor's Program, College of Liberal Arts
Listen to other people's stories, and look for the person you want to become.Read reflection
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