{"id":9400,"date":"2016-09-29T06:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2016-09-29T06:14:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:14:41","slug":"service-learning-engaging-students-for-real-world-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2016\/09\/29\/service-learning-engaging-students-for-real-world-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Learning: Engaging Students for Real-World Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Linda Silka gives keynote address at UNE Campuses for Environmental Stewardship Best Practice Showcase <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you hear the phrase \u201cstudent service learning,\u201d you might immediately imagine college kids volunteering time in their community using aspects of their majors\u2014food science, say\u2014spending evenings at a local food pantry serving those gathered for a hot meal to get a better understanding and appreciation of the problem of homelessness and hunger.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a noble gesture to be sure but represents but one version of what the growing trend of service learning for university students, and faculty, entails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/news\/news-2\/service-learning-engaging-students-for-real-world-problem-solving\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Silka gives keynote address at UNE Campuses for Environmental Stewardship Best Practice Showcase When you hear the phrase \u201cstudent service learning,\u201d you might immediately imagine college kids volunteering time in their community using aspects of their majors\u2014food science, say\u2014spending evenings at a local food pantry serving those gathered for a hot meal to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}