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Tradition of Community-Based Learning at Rockford College
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Rockford
College has a long and proud tradition of community
service. When Rockford graduate Jane Addams established
Hull House in Chicago in 1889, she also established
a lasting legacy of service to the public. Today,
students at Rockford College continue to use skills
learned in the classroom to make their neighborhood,
their community, and their world a better place. We
call this bringing together of the classroom and service.
Community-Based
Learning (sometimes
called service
learning) links the classroom
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to the community
in an experiential learning process. In community-based
learning, the professor, the students, and the community
agency learn collaboratively while helping the Rockford
community.
Founded at Rockford
College in the early 1990s, our community-based learning
program is based on the conviction that Rockford College
is a citizen of the community and that the community has
a stake in Rockford College, as well. The work that the
students perform serves the dual function of providing a
defined need for the community while also fulfilling a specific
learning objective determined by the professor.
Rockford College
is a member of Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges
dedicated to the promotion of community service.
View
the official web site for the National Campus Compact at
www.compact.org
Learn
more about the Illinois Campus Compact at www.illinoiscampuscompact.org
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