Faculty Engaged in Service-Learning Activities
UNCP faculty members contribute their Service-Learning expertise across various disciplines, offering students diverse opportunities that enhance academic performance and foster the acquisition of valuable skills, including leadership, teamwork, time management, and written and verbal communication. Explore the engagement of UNCP faculty in academic service-learning through publications, presentations, and both current and archived listings of relevant courses.The UNCP faculty brings Academic Service-Learning expertise across a range of disciplines by exposing students to diverse opportunities that are beneficial to student’s academic performance that also creates opportunities for students to develop desirable skills such as leadership, teamwork, time management, and written and verbal communication skills. Take a look at how UNCP faculty have been involved with academic service-learning by viewing publications and presentations, as well as current and archived listings of academic service-learning courses.
Service-Learning Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Conservation Biology (BIO 4320): Dr. Lisa Kelly
Students engaged in service-learning by assisting The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in collecting wiregrass seeds at Calloway Community Nature Park. The park, home to rare species like red-cockaded woodpeckers and Michaux’s sumac, is undergoing habitat restoration to rejuvenate its longleaf pine ecosystems. As part of their service-learning, Conservation Biology students harvested wiregrass seeds, much of which will be donated to the Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center. The tribe, in partnership with TNC, is implementing prescribed fires and habitat restoration, emphasizing the cultural significance of longleaf pine and wiregrass. The public seed collection event at Calloway provided a platform for community engagement, and TNC plans to plant the seeds for groundcover restoration. Conservation Biology is among various academic service-learning courses fostering community service at the University, supported by the UNCP Office for Community and Civic Engagement.
