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

Experiential Learning Depot

Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Toy Repair Workshop Students partner with a community center or thrift store to repair and refurbish old toys, then donate them to children’s organizations or shelters. A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St.

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Getting creative: How higher ed is finding solutions to post-pandemic problems

University Business

Drawing on its research and experience advising nearly 500 colleges and universities nationwide, Hanover Research has an inside line to higher ed and the major themes in which schools are entrenched. Unity College in Maine, for example, is instating public workshops and offering customized workforce training for businesses.

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21 Experiential Fall Learning Activities for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

Fall Them Inquiry Bingo This inquiry-based learning resource line is a quick experiential learning activity that promotes the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and research skills. Fall Fundraiser Project My students LOVE fundraisers.

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Supporting Your Social Media Manager in an Impossible Job

Campus Sonar

On the flip side, they also have moments of pure joy when they make a valuable connection with their audience through content or conversation, when they can tie their work to an enrolled student or fundraising goal met, and when they gather with industry colleagues at professional events. On a scale of 1–10, their mental health was at 5.83

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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. There are other important points that grow out of Kimball and Iler’s research.

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President’s Corner: Why a strategic “pathway” is better than a plan

University Business

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. Through a generous endowment, Allegheny has developed the Center for Research and Teaching Excellence.

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APEX 7: Pushing the boundaries of Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this extra post, Colette Revadillo, David Geddes, and Anya Tan showcase APEX 7, an upcoming student-led medical research expedition to Bolivia that seeks to advance the field of high-altitude medicine. Medical students organise every aspect of the expeditions, from research design and fundraising to logistics and safety management.

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