Featured College Stories
Every MSU college participates in community-engaged learning activities. In this section of the Community-Engaged Learning Index we showcase a few stories selected from the 2018-2019 CEL Survey.
Agriculture and Natural Resources The Plastic Project and CARE. Not Convenience. Exhibition
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, tens of millions of tons of plastic waste end up in landfills each year.
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Arts and Letters Sensory-Friendly Theater: POND ADVENTURE
The theater has traditionally been a place of escapism for many audiences. However, it has not always been able to provide that escape for everyone.
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Communication Arts and Sciences Communicative Sciences and Disorders Graduate Program
Students in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders program receive an experience unmatched by most other universities—the chance to practice within the community before they graduate.
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Education Telling Refugee Stories Through Film
Carrie Symons, an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at MSU, has been working with the Refugee Development Center since 2016. Much of Symons’ work has focused on youth language and literacy education programs.
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Engineering Spartan Girls Who Code and Technovation
Spartan Girls Who Code gives students in grades 6-12 the opportunity to meet on MSU’s campus once a week to learn about coding and other technology-related skills. Despite the program name, all are welcome no matter how they identify.
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Law Immigration Law Clinic (10th Anniversary)
In August 2010, the Immigration Law Clinic at MSU opened its doors and began offering pro-bono legal services for the community. In the years since, students from the clinic have represented people from over 84 different countries, with cases referred to the clinic from across the U.S.
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Music Music and Healing
Music students spend a majority of their time practicing. They spend their time mastering their craft so they can hit every note when the time comes to perform.
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Natural Science Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment
The Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, is an interdisciplinary living-learning community housed at Bailey Hall, where students can learn about and immerse themselves in sustainable lifestyles through a variety of academic and co-curricular experiences.
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Osteopathic Medicine Spartan Street Medicine
Based in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Spartan Street Medicine is comprised of medical students and physicians united under a commitment to quality healthcare for all. The program provides medical care and health education to people experiencing homelessness in Ingham County in the form of pop-up clinics and outreach trips.
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Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Sustainability in Costa Rica
Ten years ago, Vincent Delgado, director of the Program on Sustainability in Costa Rica, began leading study abroad trips centered around civic engagement, in collaboration with community partners. These trips allow students to get to know communities by connecting and building friendships within the community.
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Social Science Inside Out Prison Program
The Inside Out program at MSU connects students in the Criminal Justice program with those most affected by the system they are studying. In the semester-long course, MSU (“outside”) students go behind prison walls to study with incarcerated (“inside”) students as peers.
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