Ashley Holmes, lecturer in the English department, presented at the 2008 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching. Holmes’ presentation, titled “Redesigning Service-Learning: Considering Student and Community Partner Voices in Course Design” described a current research project she is conducting with funding from an Elon Community Partnership Initiative (CPI) Grant.
The project partners Holmes, three Elon students and a community partner in re-designing a Service-Learning section of English 110 (College Writing). The course re-design team met four times in fall 2007 to consider how to improve the course; Holmes is teaching the re-designed course in spring 2008.