For a project in a Mechanical engineering class, KU students are constructing an exercise machine for people with cerebral palsy who are confined to a wheelchair. Testing their machine Wednesday in ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Service-learning classes have recently been attracting more attention from students ...

Service-learning experiences in college can reach beyond the classroom -- and help grow graduates' bank accounts once they enter the workforce, according to a recent study. The study centered on a ...

Our office partners with faculty and community partners across disciplines to provide support for the development of designated service-learning courses. Our courses are designed for faculty and ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

“Listening to cattiness and the name-calling, we realized it’s really difficult to be a girl in middle school,” she said. “So we decided to do something about it.” Lapidos saw that these students ...

After learning about nutrition in class, students have the opportunity to be instructed about how to craft nutritional advice for patients based upon common dietary challenges (e.g., too much sodium).

The 2019 Spring Expo included both undergraduate research and service learning presentations. It celebrated excellence in research, service learning, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing ...

The University of Iowa’s community service classes, which sometimes coincide with service trips over spring break, are continuing to complete service projects despite in-person restrictions and mostly ...

The students in the Principles to Marketing class will be participating in a Bowl for Kid's Sake 2017 non -profit event with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization. Students will create digital ...