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| E-Clips is a weekly sampling of news stories on service-learning from around the nation. If you have a news story to share, please send it to e-clips@cns.gov. E-Clips is a service of the Office of Public Affairs of the Corporation for National and Community Service. For more news, visit www.nationalservice.org. | ||||
 | Illinois | |||
| May 31, 2005, Bloomington Pantagraph Grant to foster young volunteers CLINTON -- Organizers of a Clinton youth program are working to combine awareness of social issues with civic responsibility. A $5,400 state grant awarded under the community-based Learn and Serve program to the Teen Reach program will produce a crop of young volunteers and provide school supplies to low-income students. Teen Reach is an after-school program that meets during the summer to provide activities for students in fourth through eighth grades. | ||||
| April 13, 2005, Daily Eastern News Reaching out to teens Charleston Teen Reach has been helping guide teenagers in the local community to better paths....The Teen Group is a group of students in Teen Reach who help with community service, volunteer at nursing homes and plan parties and fund raisers. The Illinois Community Based Learn and Serve program is now planning a community service project called "The Take Charge Curriculum," which is funded by a $5,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services. This money will allow students to make improvements throughout the community. | ||||
| February 25, 2005, Times Republic Iroquois West receives state grant funds The Iroquois West CUSD 10 recently received $15,000 in a competitive State Learn and Serve Grant funds. Mary Peters, principal of the upper elementary school in Thawville, told the district board of education Tuesday night that the funds will be used for various volunteer projects and will be split between all of the district's buildings. | ||||
| December 15, 2004, Daily Republican Register Student project builds bears for needy This isn't the first year for students at Oakdale Elementary School to reach out in the community and provide comfort to others. They've been doing it for seven years now, thanks to a series of grants from Learn and Serve America. It is, however, the first year in which the students have originated an idea for the Learn and Serve project without any outside help. | ||||
| May 21, 2004, The Pantagraph Olympia students build classroom without walls STANFORD -- Olympia High School students have created a classroom without walls. It's a mile-long interpretive nature trail that features plants native to Illinois. The setting will be a place for students to learn topics ranging from botany to zoology. Others may be inspired to write poetry. The trailhead boasts a butterfly garden with red coreopsis, purple butterfly bushes and echinacea. | ||||
| Indiana | |||
| August 6, 2006, Evansville Courier & Press Community service is great way to stay informed, involved Let's take the wonderful beautification project in our city a step further. Let's talk about community service in general ... how great it is for a community; how great it is for those who serve. | ||||
| August 1, 2006, Reporter-Times Safety tips to help protect children Parents in the Mooresville area are on high alert following a report of a stranger who touched a child at Pioneer Park. The incident provides an important opportunity for parents to talk to their children about safety, said Morgan County Sheriff's Department detective Volitta Fritsche. Fritsche is a trainer for r.a.d.Kids, which stands for Resist Aggression Defensively, an educational self-protection program for children. | ||||
| April 6, 2006, Linton Daily Citizen Eastern Greene SAVE brings home national award The Eastern Greene Elementary School chapter of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) was awarded the National SAVE Chapter of the Year Award. | ||||
| May 11, 2005, Indianapolis Star Teaching Safety Neil Armstrong Elementary fifth-graders are producing a video about power line safety with South Central Indiana REMC. Through a Learn and Serve America Homeland Security grant received by Mooresville Schools, several projects will be completed this year. They include the DVD on electrical safety, which will be distributed to elementary schools and libraries in Morgan County, as well as available to all the schools and libraries in the Hoosier Energy service area. | ||||
| January 12, 2005, Mooresville/Decatur Times Students can turn key on bigger projects after winning contest Life's road has so many bends, And I've lost too many friends. I've tried and tried But I can't find a way to say good-bye. Their lives were cut short Because they forgot, of course. Oh, what little time it takes, But what a difference it makes. So please fasten that belt, So you don't feel the pain I've felt. - 2004 MHS graduate Justin Russell. | ||||
| November 15, 2004, Ascribe News Service College Students Benefit From Civic Engagement BLOOMINGTON -- According to findings released today (Nov. 15) from the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement conducted by Indiana University, college students who are more engaged in civic activities gain more during college in terms of ethical development and contributing to the welfare of their community. The findings also point to some improvements in the student experience over the past five years. | ||||
| April 3, 2004, Indianapolis Star Serving to learn The opportunity to combine her love of animals and children appealed to Nicole McGhee when she was searching for a community service project. McGhee, 18, a senior at Noblesville High School, spends her free time working with students at Agape Therapeutic Riding Center in Cicero. When she attends Purdue University next fall to study veterinary science, McGhee said, she will continue helping at the stables. | ||||
| Iowa | |||
| June 21, 2005, Des Moines Register Des Moines teen wins service award In the heat of an Iowa summer, 15-year-old Jessica Drown has no qualms about shoveling out horse stalls at Jester Park Equestrian Center. In fact, Drown's love of working with horses and eagerness to help others helped her log more than 500 volunteer hours at the equestrian center last year. That feat recently earned her the National President's Volunteer Service Award from United Way of Central Iowa. | ||||
| August 23, 2004, Iowa City Press Citizen Quality, not quantity key for students What does "well-rounded" mean? A long list of extracurricular activities on your college application? Not exactly. Being well-rounded has a lot less to do with numbers, and a lot more to do with balance -- balancing school and activities, balancing service and studying...Many high schools today include a "service learning" requirement for graduation. That means that a student must do some kind of community service in order to graduate. Schools know that students who get involved early in their communities tend to stay involved. | ||||
| August 22, 2004, The Daily Nonpareil Faculty view service learning as another tool The social sciences are viewed by Iowa Western Community College faculty as one academic area where service learning can be more easily integrated into the curriculum than others. Service learning is another teaching methodology that can be used to teach a concept, said Steve Glennon, a sociology professor at IWCC. | ||||
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