The Community Engaged Scholarship integrates service with academic research that benefits the community.
Quotes from a 2024 Fellow & Faculty
“Brendan and I are working on a literature review of existing research on the benefits of cohort learning and community-engaged learning in order to discern what practices we can implement here at Xavier that will have a positive impact on student belonging and success. Part of our project entails analyzing survey data from my multi-semester community-engaged learning cohort, where students learned together for an entire year in ENGL 101 and ENGL 205 while we worked on the campus farm helping grow food for our campus food pantry and other food pantries in surrounding neighborhoods.” - Dr. Sheena Steckl, Faculty Director, Eigel Center for Community-Engaged Learning & Teaching Professor, English Department
“During the summer of 2024, I was given the opportunity to work with Dr. Shena Steckl, and with the unwavering support from the Eigel Center, she and I could dive into the topic that is what the Eigel Center is made for. Dr. Steckl and I have been researching how community-engaged or service learning can impact student retention, GPA, and credits taken. The research will support the quantitative evidence Dr. Steckl has collected from a service-learning cohort she ran. Our findings will help show how community-engaged learning benefits students outside of their service learning. Hopefully, it will be a reference point for other universities and research on community-engaged learning”. - Brendan Endre, Junior Community-Engaged Fellow
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