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Campus Participation:
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Campus Participation: Demonstration SitesThe Bringing Theory to Practice Project has awarded seven grants totaling $630,000 to seven demonstration site campuses. Each of these institutions is being funded to develop and evaluate new strategies to get students more engaged with their learning, and, in so doing, improve their health and civic engagement. Participating Institutions
“Identity, Community and Belonging will benefit two groups of students who are often more vulnerable to the challenges of depression and disengagement: transfers and sophomores. The project will include an academic seminar exploring the concepts of community, identity, and belonging as well as three distinct civic engagement living/learning communities.”
Dickinson College “Dickinson will undertake a multiyear study of the effects of student participation in its expanding ‘learning communities’ program to examine whether variously structured learning experiences—classroom-based, service-learning, outdoor experiential learning, and a non-credit learning community organized around community service—yield different impacts on student learning, mental health, and civic engagement.”
Emory University “In order for students to appreciate the complexities of addiction and depression in the world and in their own lives, we will develop a model seminar course/internship experience, in the new Second Year at Emory Residence Hall, that integrates several successful but so far distinct campus programs and uses a problem- and- research-based approach grounded in the interdisciplinary context of the history, science, and impacts of these issues in society.”
Georgetown University “This project focuses on ‘curriculum infusion’—the blending of college health issues into the curriculum content of academic courses to impact positively student attitudes and behaviors, by bringing these important health issues into the academic environment where they can be addressed with intellectual seriousness and free from the fear of social stigma in targeted curriculum modules across a wide spectrum of lower division general education courses.”
Morgan State University "SHARED Experiences Program will expand Morgan State University students’ involvement in on-going community-based research and program development in Southwest Baltimore and in the development and implementation of initiatives to promote student and community well-being and prevent substance use and depression."
St. Lawrence University “St. Lawrence will establish an intensive living-learning program employing the best practices of engaged learning pedagogies and assess their impacts on depression and alcohol abuse among our students through primary data collection using multiple methods over a three-year period, coupled with secondary analysis of our existing student databases.”
Syracuse University “Through rigorous evaluation, the SAGE Options Project will demonstrate
the association between curricular and cocurricular student engagement
as effective prevention strategies that address the roots of depression
and substance abuse—indications of interpersonal and intrapersonal
disengagement.”
Additional information is available by contacting btp@aacu.org or 202-884-0815. |
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