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Landry-Meyer and Strum discuss Developing Connections, an on-campus event that extends the classroom connecting students to the real world through community agencies. Discussion focuses on the organization of the event, objectives, and integration into pre-internship and internship courses. They also discuss the integration of high-impact elements such as students spending a considerable amount of time on meaningful tasks, faculty and student interacting about substantive matters, activities having meaning on/off campus, and making authentic connections. The authors also discuss implementation with a focus on community partners, faculty support, university support, programmatic alignment, student buy-in and participation, event planning, and feedback and assessment.
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Landry-Meyer, L., Jr., M.R.S. (2017). Developing Connections: Using an On-Campus Event to Connect HDFS Students and the Community. In: Newman, T., Schmitt, A. (eds) Field-Based Learning in Family Life Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39874-7_7
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