Community Service Learning

Raising research priorities for the benefit of the community, university, and faculty

Raising research priorities for the benefit of the community, university, and faculty

By Patty Wellborn on March 3, 2016

There is a growing awareness that we need to challenge the ways the universities engage with communities and the way that we think about the boundaries between knowledge production and community engagement.

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Interior Saving’s Gene Creelman (left) poses with CRIS staff, Eric Rampone, Troy Becker, and Dawn Widdifield, along with UBC Okanagan’s Rebecca Frechette and Sally Willis-Stewart in front of a newly-delivered Parks Explorer.

Interior Savings, UBC team up to go places never thought possible

By Patty Wellborn on February 13, 2015

Adaptive outdoor cycling equipment turns disabled riders into Explorers.

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Nishat Tasnim, an international student from Bangladesh, volunteers each year during UBC Okanagan’s Days of Caring program which runs during reading week. This year, she’s helping out at Kelowna’s SPCA.

Forget Mexico, many students use reading week to give back

By Patty Wellborn on February 19, 2014

UBC Okanagan students participate in Days of Caring during annual break.

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Lori Field, program coordinator with the Learning Exchange at UBC's Okanagan campus, left, and Laura Patterson, technical and professional communication instructor with the School of Engineering, teamed up to teach first-year engineering students about client interaction and communication skills while benefiting six local non-profit agencies.

Program designed to help engineers communicate

By Darren Handschuh on December 19, 2011

UBC students develop fundraising plans for local charities

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Quintana Roo University archaeology professor Guillerno Ramirez gives the UBC Spanish Summer Field School an insight into ancient Mayan culture at the ruins in Kohunlich. On April 14, this sun aligns this fork-shaped stone to another stone on the opposite end of the plaza.

UBC students see the real Mexico

By Darren Handschuh on August 5, 2011

Trip provides many valuable lessons in the differences in lifestyle, education

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Patrick Murphy, far right, makes sure to digitally chronicle his friend Cory Cheyne grinding corn into paste for empanadas. Students worked for about 45 minutes preparing their breakfast.

Students get taste of Mayan life

By Darren Handschuh on August 5, 2011

UBC visitors gain greater appreciation for Canada and Mexico It was far from the easiest day in their lives, but for a half dozen students from the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, a community service learning adventure in the Mayan jungle is one they won't soon forget. Despite a 3:30 a.m. wakeup call, a […]

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