The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement is excited to host a week of events celebrating service-learning and civic engagement. Please mark your calendars and let your friends and colleagues know! United to Serve is a system-wide initiative of The University of Texas to unite all of the campuses in service. Every spring since… read more
Update: Volunteer Fair Reschedule!
Due to a forecast for inclement weather on Wednesday, 2/6, we postponed our Spring 2013 Volunteer Fair. Although the weather turned out to be beautiful most of the day, the forecast predicted a 90% chance of rain through 3pm, and we didn’t want to chance it! The fair will take… read more
ASL Spotlights Professor Diana Dawson
A journalist by profession, Diana Dawson knew that covering social issues meant she had to be out in the field to hear the stories of people living the problems. Now, as an instructor for the School of Journalism at UT-Austin she incorporates this into her inter-disciplinary Senior Fellow’s seminar called… read more
Communications Students Serve as On- and Off-Campus Consultants
Sophomore Shelby Stephen and senior Kayleigh Rivera are urging their classmates in residence halls to “Lock it or Lose it.” This fall, they surveyed current on-campus students about their safety habits and realized that most of the students they spoke with were leaving their doors unlocked, encouraging theft. At the… read more
Volunteer and Student Organization of the Month: November
The Volunteer and Service Learning Center recently recognized the November 2012 outstanding student volunteer and outstanding student organization for their dedication to contributing to the Austin community! Casey Locey, social work junior, was selected by Latinitas as the outstanding student volunteer for November. Casey has volunteered with Latinitas for about a year… read more
Volunteer and Student Organization of the Month: October
Congratulations to Iris Blackburn and the Asian Health Professions Organization, our October 2012 Volunteer and Student Organization of the Month awardees! Iris Blackburn, radio-television-film senior, is the outstanding student volunteer for the Austin Humane Society (AHS). She sought out the opportunity because of her love of animals, and while growing… read more
Art Installation to Raise Awareness of Humanitarian Crises
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11am to 1pm South Mall The University of Texas-Austin The Academic Service-Learning program is proud to sponsor an art installation developed by Dr. Kara Hallmark’s Visual Art Studies service-learning students in partnership with the One Million Bones project and Students Rebuild. All faculty, students, and community… read more
Faculty Discuss “Teaching by Doing” at ASL Panel
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