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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Community Book Drive For this service-learning project example, students organize a book drive to collect winter reading materials for libraries, shelters, or literacy programs, helping promote learning and escape through books.

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11 Effective Self-Directed Student Fundraiser Project Ideas

Experiential Learning Depot

Student fundraiser project opportunities! Spring is a great time of year to fundraise because we're in the final stretch of the school year. ​And what better way to do all of that than with student-led fundraiser projects? As an experiential educator, I love to have my students host and run their own community fundraisers.

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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” Community college leaders should be prepared to make good, informed decisions regarding their fundraising strategy,” Smith says. “I

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lieberman has written and co-authored multiple books and articles relating to diversity, institutional transformation and issues affecting higher education. To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university.

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5 New Solutions that Improve the Student Experience

Campus Groups

Fundraising ? Centralize with Room Reservations Our new room reservations module enables campus community members to book facilities. Communicate & Collaborate with Fundraising This feature enables campus community members to fundraise. Learn more about Fundraising and CampusGroups. Interventions+ ? Campus ID

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Does Volunteer Work Matter for College Admissions?

Great College Advice

To make the point, consider the young man who spends four hours every Saturday shelving books at the local library. He shows up at 10am, collects the piles of books that have been checked back in, sorts them into stacks according to where they should be reshelved, and then starts putting books back on the shelves until 2pm.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Before the 1950s, most elite campuses invested their endowments conservatively in bonds and mortgages.