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2009 HCC Innovation of the Year: Service Learning Veteran's Website Project by Walt EllisService-Learning courses couple meaningful community service with classroom instruction. Given the controversies of the Iraq war, the professor sought to create a service-learning activity that would help students find common ground through awareness of veterans' issues. A multi-semester Service-Learning project was developed in which sociology students contacted both college and community veterans' organizations and interviewed veterans to determine what services could be improved. Many veterans expressed difficulty in accessing medical and educational benefits. In response, the students created a Veterans webpage within the college website to address these needs. This multi-page site contains detailed information, including numerous links to government websites for educational/medical benefit forms and information. This project greatly enhanced HCC's ability to serve veterans, while also helping sociology students increase civic participation, improve interpersonal skills, and gain real-life understanding of sociological issues discussed in the textbook and the classroom.Read more... |
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