The EXL Center for Community Engaged Learning

Congratulations to Cyrus for matching with Summit Soil and Water Conservation District internship! We can't wait to see what you do, Cyrus!

If you'd like a 100 hour, paid, off campus internship like this one, head to our Handshake to see our openings: https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs?page=1&per_page=25¤tView=active&owner=OWNED_BY_ME

Zips, we love celebrating you. Happy Pride Month from the EX[L] team!

On Friday May 1st, we recognized two groups for Excellence in Campus-Community Collaboration. First, we honored Dr. I-Chun Tsai (a new ACE Scholar) and her work with the Hudson City School District on Goose Bot - a prototype of a robot that could help clean up goose waste in public parks.

Secondly, we awarded the City of Akron Youth Violence Intervention and Prevention Team this award. Dr. Stacey Nofziger worked with Dr. Allyson Drinkard and the City of Akron during an [Un]class on Program Evaluation and another sociology course to interview Akron area organizations that are doing violence prevention work. Nofziger's students hosted their own poster presentation last semester, and are continuing research with the City of Akron.

At this year's EX[L] Awards, we honored our Disconnected Communities Team with the Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship Award. Drs. Hillary Nunn and Shanon Donnelly taught two separate [Un]classes focused on the Akron Innerbelt and the community that it destroyed. Donnelly's class used GIS to map the businesses and houses that are no longer there, using information that Nunn's class learned from the UA Archives. Archivists Mark Bloom and Hannah Kemp-Severance were also recognized, alongside students Sienna Hodge and Ethan Rang for their work on these projects.

Still looking for an internship? No worries - you can start any of our Akron Community Internships now or later this fall! Check out our Handshake for the full job descriptions and apply here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7V1X6PnXzk6kqgsymRru3VsNohmBq_VPhGYRvVCgaVhUNVJNNTZNV1RRVk0xNkJSRFNHVjFXTzZHWiQlQCN0PWcu

Another EX[L] Award highlight:

From those granted Community-Engaged Teaching Recognition, exemplars from each college were selected to receive the Excellence in Community-Engaged Teaching award!

Dr. Piya Chatterjee, LJFF School of Education
Dr. Susie Kushner-Benson, LJFF School of Education
Dr. Lori Sandel, LJFF School of Education

Dr. Elena Popa, Anthropology & ITLA and Asian Services in Action (ASIA)

Dr. Jodi Kearns, Institute for Human Science & Culture
Dr. Hillary Nunn, English
Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramirez, Adjunct and partner

Dr. Federico de Gregorio, Marketing

Our office will be closed today to honor Memorial Day. Thank you and see you tomorrow, Zips!

Let's hop on this trend, shall we 💅 🦘

If you still need a fun class for this fall semester, consider an [Un]class! They only run once and we have four classes in four different places on campus! They're all upper division credits. Talk to your program advisor or email [email protected] to register on Workday or if you have any questions.

We have matched Molly with the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival for an Akron Community Internship! We can't wait to see what work Molly gets to do during her 100 hours.