Service-Learning and Other Civic Engagement Opportunities During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Service-Learning Modules

Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates relevant community service with course work and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience, foster social responsibility and civic engagement, and strengthen communities.

(These modules are available also as co-curricular civic engagement opportunities for students.)

Environmental Justice

Facilitator: Kaitlyn Gallagher, kgallagher@barry.edu

• Contribute to environmental sustainability projects, such as beach clean-ups and community gardening.
• Advocate environmental health improvement by contributing to environmental justice campaigns and promoting relevant policies.

Fair Food

Facilitator: Courtney Berrien, cberrien@barry.edu

• Promote justice and safe working conditions for farmworkers, and essential workforce.
• Support the campaign for Fair Food, a worker-driven initiative of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allied organization, Student/Farmworker Alliance.

Food Security

Facilitator: Kaitlyn Gallagher, kgallagher@barry.edu

• Through advocacy, support local, national, and international efforts to address food insecurity.
• Participate in direct or onsite service.

People Power

Facilitator: Liz James, ljames@barry.edu

• Support inter-faith community organizing for Miami-Dade's largest grassroots assembly.
• Help seek commitments for affordable housing, community identification, and policing from local policymakers. 

Racial Justice

Facilitator: Gabriel Bouani, gbouani@barry.edu

• Work with community partners to foster education and dialogue about racial violence and inequity.
• Engage in community organizing to stop the criminalization of poverty and become an advocate of criminal justice reform (to stop jail expansion, cash bail, and unnecessary arrests).

Youth Development

Facilitator: Gabriel Bouani, gbouani@barry.edu

• Tutor children in elementary and middle grades.
• Provide youth enrichment activities.

Additional Engagement Opportunities for Students

College Brides Walk 2021

Facilitator: Dr. Laura Finley, lfinely@barry.edu

• Participate in the 2021 College Brides Walk to raise awareness of domestic and dating violence.
• All events will be virtual. Please register on GivePulse.

The University has retired CEMS—the Community Engagement Management System—and is now using the GivePulse platform to manage community engagement, including service-learning courses and civic engagement projects. The CCSI is available to offer GivePulse-related orientation and training to faculty, staff, and students as requested. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to visit GivePulse for additional engagement activities as community partners continuously post new opportunities.