Campus Participation: Program Start-Up Grants
The Project has awarded grants of $10,000 to campus initiatives addressing
student substance abuse and depression through engaged forms of learning.
Participating campuses include:
American University: University College Pilot Program
Objective: To reduce high risk behaviors as students feel less isolated,
more connected to faculty and their peers, and more engaged in academic
and co-curricular activities that are intentional, cohesive, and affirming.
Concordia University-Moorhead:
Objective: To cultivate student well-being through physical training in
Aikido and philosophical reflection on thought-provoking spiritual and
religious texts and to study the effects of “engaged learning”
and its promise for promoting students’ mental, spiritual, and physical
health and their sense of civic responsibility.
Eckerd University: Service-Learning & Study
Abroad-Researching the Effects Engaged Learning and Alcohol Use
Objective: To engage in research to determine the effects and outcomes
of engaged learning on participating students’ attitudes towards
alcohol use.
Evergreen State College: Informed Community + Involved
Community +Engaged Community = A Healthy Community
Objective: To increase the effectiveness of the Evergreen community to
respond to changing needs of students and to incorporate into programs
and services of engaged learning.
Montclair State University: The
Effect of Engaged Learning on Student Academic, Personal and Civic Development
Objective: To pilot a model for assessing the academic, civic and personal
development outcomes of engaged learning in college students utilizing
qualitative and quantitative research methodology.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: Addressing
Depression, Anxiety, Stress, And Substance Abuse Among Students By Using
Peer Educators
Objective: To develop a course with peer educators which will help students
develop a healthy life style which, in turn should foster better engagement
in academic life.
Saint Mary’s College of California: Dialogue…Community
in Conversation
Objective: To address intentionally and strategically campus conversations
in a manner that empowers voices, builds community, values both diversity
of people and opinion, and enhances trust to create a desired academic
community.
Tusculum: Breaking
the Ice: An Engaged Learning Initiative to Address Mental Health and Substance
Abuse
Objective: To increase substantially the number of on-campus counselors
and provide programs to educate others.
University of Delaware: Central
Complex Service Learning Initiative
Objectives: To enhance present service efforts into the realm of service
learning and sustain reflective engagement that integrates curricular
and co-curricular purposes in a highly connected fashion.
University of Kansas: Recruiting Faculty and Assessing
Outcomes: A Service Learning Initiative Pilot Project
Objective: To determine how best to recruit and motivate faculty for incorporating
service learning into their courses; and to better understand how to improve
the service learning experience for students and participating faculty,
and to determine potential civic engagement and health outcomes due to
participation in the service learning experience.
Willamette University: Coaching for Academic Success
Objective: To use a multi-dimensional approach to decrease the problems
of alcohol abuse and depression and increase indicators of engaged learning.
If your campus is interested in applying for a mini-grant, please contact
Jennifer Wong, Program Associate, at wong@aacu.org or 202-884-0815.
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