The Academic Service-Learning program is unique in that it caters to both students and faculty alike by helping them to develop and find resources to enhance classroom learning. Recently, ASL organized a faculty panel to educate university members about the benefits of offering courses that tie community involvement with class… read more
ASL Spotlights Dr. Kristie Loescher
Whether Dr. Kristie Loescher is teaching a course in business communications, leadership issues, or strategic human resources she always incorporates a component of academic service-learning as a way to make the material to “come alive” for her students. A professor in the McCombs School of Business and a 2012 Tower… read more
ASL Spotlight: Professor Michele Deitch
Giving students the chance to go behind prison walls is one way that Professor Michele Deitch engages her class and helps students “internalize and view policy through different lenses.” Deitch visited a prison with her students who were enrolled in the Spring 2012 public affairs course on the juvenile justice system. They… read more