This past semester, Professor Monica Tetzlaff has guided her First Year Seminar students through a variety of community service projects in collaboration with local parks. Although this semester looked a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tetzlaff said “it was a lesson of needing to adjust.” To allow her students to apply their study… Read more »
Students in the Master of Liberal Studies Program put sustainability into action through SUST-S610, Measuring Sustainability, taught by Krista Bailey. The course is designed to give the students the skills to “track sustainability in whatever way, shape, or form that it is being implemented.” The course begins by looking at the different tools for measuring… Read more »
Dr. Larry Bennett, Professor in the School of Social Work has a challenge. Most Social Work students enter the field wanting to help people – either through direct service, programming, or advocacy. However, the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics requires that social workers evaluate their interventions to assess their effectiveness. This means… Read more »
On Thursday, December 12th students from the Departments of Sociology & Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies presented on the “Quality of Place in Elkhart County,” at the IUSB Elkhart Center. For a little over a year various faculty and students, mainly from the IUSB Sociology of Anthropology Department, have partnered with Vibrant Communities Elkhart,… Read more »
Database Management Systems (BUS S307), taught by Dr. Mohammad Merhi, is a comprehensive introduction to database management systems, with an emphasis on database design methodologies, database query languages, and database implementation. Students in this community-engaged course form groups to design and create a database system for a local business. The project gives students an opportunity… Read more »
Students in Dr. Terri Hebert’s Science in the Elementary School course are getting a hands-on, engaged approach to science. Over the years, Dr. Hebert has created connections with several local organizations to build a partnership that both fosters the learning of our future teachers, and fills the needs for our community organizations. It all started… Read more »
On September 6th, Dr. Deb Marr and her BIOL-L474 class took part in a Fish Diversity Lab. For this project, Dr. Marr partners with Daragh Deegan, a Fisheries Biologist with the Elkhart Public Works Office. This particular lab takes place in the St. Joseph River between the IU South Bend Pedestrian Bridge and the Twyckenham… Read more »