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Title: The Environment Corps: combining classroom instruction, service learning, and extension outreach to create a new model of community engaged scholarship at the University of Connecticut
An extensive faculty partnership at the University of Connecticut (UConn) that reaches across college and departmental lines is engaged in a project that seeks to enhance, expand, institutionalize, and study a new model for community engagement. The model, called the Environment Corps (E-Corps), combines the familiar elements of classroom instruction, service-learning, and extension outreach to create a method of engagement that aims to benefit students, faculty, surrounding communities, and the university community itself. This article describes the structure and history of E-Corps; details the institutional setting, faculty partnerships, and pedagogical strategies involved; and discusses early evidence of impacts and future prospects.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1915100
PAR ID:
10272998
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Brooks, S.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of higher education outreach and engagement
Volume:
25
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1534-6102
Page Range / eLocation ID:
215 - 229
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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