Central Community Goes Hands-On for Service Day
August 18, 2015
Students, faculty and staff joined together to complete more than 60 community service projects in central Iowa on Service Day April 21. Since 2006, the college has set aside a day each year to connect members of campus to each other and dozens of community partners.
Organized through Community-Based Learning, the half- and full-day projects ranged from sorting food donations to planting flowers in a community garden. More than 700 volunteers participated.
Several professors led students in projects related to their fields. Students interested in special education visited Courage League Sports in Des Moines with professor of education Esther Streed to work one-on-one with adults with disabilities. First-year students who helped design murals for Homestead of Knoxville painted the assisted living facility library with associate professor of art Mat Kelly, and associate professor of exercise science John Roslien’s angling class took local seventh graders fishing.