LYCOMING COLLEGE SUMMER MAGAZINE 2023

Learning Through Serving COMMUNITY BASED LEARNING

What is community-based learning (CBL), and why is it beneficial?

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A CBL is a pedagogical strategy that combines academic coursework with community engagement by leveraging mutually-beneficial partnerships between a class and public organization or group to solve community identified problems.

Lycoming College’s Office of Community Based Learning supports faculty efforts to effectively integrate service-learning, community-based research, and class-community exchanges into their courses in order to provide students with exceptional learning opportunities solving real world problems at the local, state, national, and international levels.

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