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Show SUN Center sponsors service learning workshop by Sundi Decker staff writer I have never seen in my educational career such a gathering of forces, at the national level, around educational inDr. C. David Lisman renovations, potted at the Service Learning Workshop sponsored by the Sun Center and held in the Alumni Room April 18. He spoke of service learning as being a tremendous key to educational success in theory and practice, defining it as the process of integrating volunteer-community service combined with reflection into course curriculum to enhance and enrich student learning of course material. Or, in other words, service learning is hands-o- n experience that benefits two sides: the learning student and the receiving activ- e-guided community. It is a program designed to teach students everyday skills that will benefit their communities currently and ultimately. Research informs that' individuals remember only 10 percent of what they hear, IS percent of what they see and 20 percent of what they see and hear at the same time. Learning enlightened by service programs shows that individuals retain 60 percent of what they do, 80 percent of what they do with d reflection and 90 what of percent they teach or give to others. Service learning is a success technique focused on physical involvement to ensure mental retention. Built around the tradition of activism active-guide- and volunteerism prevalent in the 60s, service learning slowed in the '70s and 5QQn3$$(FaQfe early '80s and currently experienced rebirth in the late '80s. This learning practice stretches through the United States and is presently utilized by a majority of colleges and universities. Lisman told that Utah is well on its way to entering the mode of ser- vice learning. Recently the Federal Corporation on National Service has awarded the Campus Compact National Center for Community College a $200,000 grant to develop and enhance programs throughout the country. g To initialize on something like a trial basis, the plan is to first develop five regional consulting centers among clusters of states across the nation and then expand centers of -learning nationally. Our regional center is Mesa Community College in Arizona which zones into Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah. Examples of service learning might servic- e-learning service-learnin- service- Pam Mazahari thanks Dr. Lisman at the recent Service Learning Workshop. Photo by Allen DeFriez. include a course dealing with electronics which includes in its syllabus the participation of students in installing close captioning for the hearing impaired individuals in their area. Students learn electronic skills while providing a service for acommunity neighbor. Service learning can be offered as extra credit work or as a regular part of a class. Another example of service- - learning activity would be requiring students to work a couple hours in aday care center each week as part of a child development class. Imagination and foresight accompany service learning promising to enliven course work. g The barricades to smooth programs is found in attitudes. Faculty, students and the community service-learnin- see Service page 7 Channel 4 anchor stresses balance in your life Utah's Good Morning America anJessica chor used DubrofTs courage and her dream to follow her goals as the premise of her talk during CEU's 9th annual Women's Conference. Barbara Smith, who gets up at 2 a.m. KUTVs Chaneach day to nel 4 morning show, titled her talk " As I looked at Pretty in Pink the Jessica's image on cover of Time seven-year-o- ld 1 Jim Petty, a College of Eastern Utah freshman from Georgia, decided to move to Utah because he says he needed a change in scenery. He likes the state because he likes the desert and the scenery, or in other words the drier elfmate. When he was planning his spring quarter schedule, heasked Pam Mazahcri, SUN Center director, about the Service Learning class which was offered for the first time spring quarter. Over spring break he traveled with the SUN Center and other volunteers to the Navajo Reservation. When he returned from the spring break trip to the Navajo Reservation, he had such a positive experience that he decided to become more involved in the SUN Center and its projects. Petty has become a certified Hospice volunteer with the elderly program directed by Stay C Gunderson. As coordinator of Pet Partners, he is putting and the Della together the Pet Therapy Program through Active Society. The Pet Therapy program, which was started last year, took animals from the Humane Society and visited the different care centers in the area. Petty wishes to take the program a step further this year by working with who in turn, is working with the Delta Society which is an Active organization which trains animals to help people with disabilities. If you are interested in this program or wish to know more about it contact 0 ext. 5624. the SUN Center in the TAPS building or at Re-Ent- ry Re-Entr- y, 637-212- or magazine, what I noticed was her pink baseball cap. Jessica had a dream and the courage to follow it. She believed, as embroidered on her favorite pink baseball cap, that women fly. At any age women can flyl Jessica's parents taught their children that little in life is more important than fulfilling one's dreams. "I also believe that women can fly and while the flight is often bumpy and the flight pattern sometimes untested, using our education, our intellect and our spirits, we can sore to our chosen destinations and fulfill our dreams. There is pink on the horizon promising a new day. 'Twenty years ago the womens movement made front page headlines. Linda Ellerbec, a journalist with NBC news during that volatile period, recently said in retrospect, the movement did have an impact. It made noise and from the noise came light and from the light came change. "Gone are the days of the Dick Van Dyke show, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and Leave It To Beaver. Welcome to the '90s with Grace Under Fire, Roseanne and Murphy Brown. Women are working and they arc working in greater numbers than ever before. If fact, the number of women who work outside the home has doubled in the past two decades. In Utah more than 60 percent of all women have jobs away from home. Why do we work? More than half of us say wewouldn't if wedidn't have to for financial reasons. But the remainder say they would work outside the home if the annual paycheck were not necessary. We work for a myriad of reasons including security and a feeling of contributing to our family and community. Smith said the '80s was an era of superwoman. We tried to bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan, feed it to self-estee- the kids and clean up the grease left behind. In the 90s, we have found that doing it all can take a heavy toll. We have found that doing it all can take a heavy toll. We find women arc sleeping an average of two hours less a night than experts say is healthy. More women disd are suffering from eases, smoking is on the rise and bum out has become a catch phrase. Some women can do it all, but others cannot. Some are killing themselves trying, she added. Smith talked about being a working mother and being stretched to the limit. She would frequently arrive at work at 4:30 a.m. and leave at 5:30 p.m. Her attempts to leave after eight hours were all too often thwarted by a breaking news story or' lack of personnel to. cover the news of the day. Saying no only proved futile and made the atmosphere of the office difficult. She quipped that her son spent endless hours at the day care and she would break the sound barrier as she raced to get to the day care center before closing time. Because she stress-relate- see Balance page 7 |