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Last year through the same class, sophomore Stephanie Bigger got involved with The Home Team, an organization started by former UM football player Alex Pou, which tutors student-athletes at three nearby public schools to help young sports fanatics understand the importance of prioritizing academics equally with athletics. And sophomore Demi-Lisa Kang got involved with UGenerations, which visits a local nursing home to do crafts and visit with elderly Miamians. This year, Kang is the president of UGenerations and said the residents complain if she misses just a week of visiting them. The idea for the class sprouted from an experience two years ago when McGrath Moreira got involved with a service organization at the U called Exchange for Change. The Miami-based group creates opportunities for students to correspond with inmates in order to foster an understanding of the lives of prisoners and to help prisoners and students strengthen their writing skills. After working with the organization, and realizing the importance of community engagement at the end of her own college years, McGrath Moreira said she decided to design a class that would meld service opportunities with writing. “My job is to get them wanting to compose about something they want to talk about and also to prepare them for university-level coursework,” McGrath Moreira said.

“Allowing students to choose where they want to do their research allows for a whole different experience of writing.” During the course, students find a community service organization that they would be interested in working with and writing about for the semester. To make this process easier, McGrath Moreira gives students a list that has been crafted and vetted by the University’s, which has partnerships with more than 250 local organizations. Then, as part of the class, students must start attending meetings if they choose to join an on-campus organization, and to participate in programming and volunteering regardless of where their organization is located, McGrath Moreira said. “The opportunities and possibilities with these types of courses are endless,” said Lindsey Woods, assistant director of programs at the Butler Center, who worked extensively with McGrath Moreira to plan the class. “We want to cultivate this desire [for our students] to find something they are passionate about and to continue it.” Last week, McGrath Moreira’s students got a chance to meet representatives from at least three organizations that spend time volunteering in the community each week. By this week, they must choose an organization that piques their interest. First year student Mikaela Ludwick said she was excited to take a class that required her to volunteer in the community.

Ludwick was trying to decide between joining Love Your Melon, a group that brings knitted hats to pediatric cancer patients at hospitals across Miami, or Empowered Youth, the group that Gibson spoke about. “In Canada, my high school was very civically engaged, but it was never offered academically,” Ludwick said.

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“So I wanted to find a way to get involved in the Florida community and this class would give me the opportunity to be in a hands-on volunteer organization. It’s important to see the faces of people you’re helping and to make that connection.” Throughout the semester, students write journal entries about their experiences, and the final project is a paper where students must research the issue that their organization hopes to target, be it homelessness, opposing the school to prison pipeline, or others. Through the paper, students must analyze their experiences in comparison to the scholarly research that exists on the topic and then make suggestions for how their organization could be more effective. Although McGrath Moreira came up with the idea for the course on her own, she fine-tuned it while attending the Engaged Faculty Fellow program run through UM’s (CCE) last year. Now six years old, the program helps faculty across the university to incorporate service learning opportunities in their classes, said Robin Bachin, assistant provost for Civic and Community Engagement. The program is part of CCE’s larger mission to promote teaching methods and research strategies that integrate academic knowledge with its real-world applications. Across the U, an increasing number of professors are adding service learning components to their classes, Bachin said, to the point where there are more than 600 different courses offered at UM that now have a “civic” designation like McGrath Moreira’s.