1. Addressing the heart of poverty
Through experiential education
Addressing the heart of poverty

2. background
5th Year Associate Director of the Center for Social Notre Dame
Direct Urban Plunge
Co-Direct Minor in Catholic Social Tradition
Teach CBL course: Poverty & Politics
Worked in Chicago & DC beforehand
Connect the 2 Feet: Need both

3. Center for Social Concerns
26 years: “learning becomes service to justice”
Facilitates community-based learning, research & service thru CST
Over 15,000 participants in seminars

4. Goal
Through experiential education, assist students in developing proposed solutions to the systemic problems of poverty

5. Objectives for workshop
Provide a replicable model of community-based learning in higher education
Provide a mechanism to engage alumni networks in summer internships
Engage creativity in more deeply engaging non-profits

6. Mechanisms for Addressing poverty
Community-based learning & research
Community Partners
Summer Internships
Alumni Networks

7. Seminars addressing Poverty
Poverty & Politics – 3 credit
Over 20 courses internal - 1 credit
Urban Plunge
Appalachia
Children & Poverty
Border Issues
Around 100 cbl across curriculum – 3 credit
Summer Service courses – 3 credit

8. Poverty & Politics Why so many poor in the U.S.? Why care?
Seek solutions to causes of poverty
Interdisciplinary: humanities, arts, social sciences
Team taught; focus on developing oral skills
Students participate weekly in 1 of 4 non-profits addressing poverty
Community-based learning coordinators

9. Community-Based Learning Coordinators
6 in local partner agencies
AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist
Center for the Homeless
La Casa de Amistad
Logan Center
Robinson Community Learning Center
Sr. Maura Brannick Clinic
Pay part of their salary: depending on volume of students
Help students find placements w/ agencies
Meet needs of students & agencies
Assist faculty in creating cbl opportunities
Individual & course-related placements
Trying to develop courses & research out of agency needs

10. Summer service learning program
8 week service learning course
Over 240 students to over 110 sites nationally
3 credit & $2,300 tuition credit
Funded through alumni clubs: alumni contact
Orientation/Spring; Reading & Writing w/ Immersion/Summer; Follow-up Session/Fall

11. International SSLP 8 week summer service learning course
42 students in 12 countries in so. Hemisphere
3 credit & $1000 stipend; travel covered

12. Questions
What models are you using to address poverty through experiential education?
Are there similarities or differences?

13. Discussion What did you hear at your tables?
What further questions did you have?

14. Thanks