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Naropa Students to Unveil Community-Oriented Service Projects

BOULDER, Colo. (November 12, 2008) – On December 3, 2008, Naropa University undergraduates will present interactive displays, presentations, music and multimedia as the culmination of a semester-long Civic Engagement Seminar to both celebrate their collective accomplishments and generate community support for their initiatives. The event will be hosted in the Performing Arts Center at the Arapahoe Campus between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.

Students have been engaged in community outreach, as well as independent projects fostering community building and issue awareness in the Boulder community. While the identified issues range in topic—homelessness, LGBTQ rights, renewable energy, community gardening, conflict resolution and net neutrality—all were selected based on student interest and community need. In addition to developing and implementing sustainable group social action projects, civic engagement students had the opportunity to support local community-based agencies including Growing Gardens, YWCA Children’s Alley and Soft Voices through a service-learning practicum. 

The Civic Engagement Seminar offers undergraduate students an engaged learning experience as a vehicle to apply acquired skills in a community-based setting. Through the use of experiential learning, Civic Engagement courses are designed to add a public dimension to the academic skills students developed in previous core courses.

Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Naropa University is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education. This approach to learning integrates the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage constructively with others. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and
religious studies.