Impact of Spanish Community Service Learning
by Ann Abbott Do you have to hand in an end-of-the-year activities report? Do you hate doing it? Does it feel like bean counting? I know the feeling. But looking at the numbers can actually be helpful. Your community partners have to do this kind of reporting all the time when they apply for and report back on grants and within their internal and external communications. There are many ways to measure activity, importance and impact. Numbers do not tell the whole story. But they are one piece of the puzzle. And here are my numbers regarding teaching and program coordination for academic year 2010-11. (OJO: the numbers represent available spaces in the courses I teach/coordinate; I did not count actual enrollments in each and every section. Hence the phrase, "up to.") 5 courses taught/coordinated SPAN 202 Business Spanish SPAN 208 Oral Spanish SPAN 228 Spanish Composition SPAN 232 Spanish in the Community SPAN 332 Spanish & Entrepreneurship 725 (up to) stu...