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51³Ô¹ÏÍøstudents who wanted to learn outside the classroom, tackle real world issues and explore potential careers as part of their university experience met with representatives from DFW-area organizations and agencies who wanted their help during the Engaged Learning Expo on August 27, 2012.

The expo celebrated 100 51³Ô¹ÏÍøundergraduates who worked on significant projects this summer, and provided opportunities to mix and match interested students with 15 different campus programs, as well as 45 DFW-area community partners.

“A student who engages in a learning activity beyond the classroom has the opportunity to transfer the knowledge and skills of the classroom to a real-life situation, learn from the experience, reflect on it and use it as a basis for further learning,” said Susan Kress, director of at SMU. “This is a taste of what it means to be a lifelong learner, and, for some, the first step in living a life of meaning and success in a complex world.”

“51³Ô¹ÏÍøstudents are entrepreneurial,” Kress said. “They identify pressing issues in communities and come up with solutions.”

Community partners at the Expo:

• American Red Cross
• Baylor Health Care
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Catholic Charities of Dallas
• Child Care Group
• Dallas After School Network
• Dallas Arboretum
• Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center
• Dallas CASA
• Dallas Community Lighthouse
• Dallas Holocaust Museum
• Dallas Peace Center
• Dallas Zoo
• Equest
• Genesis Women’s Shelter
• Goodwill Industries
• Habitat for Humanity
• Heart House of Dallas
• Human Rights Initiative
• I Have a Dream Foundation
• Interfaith Housing Coalition
• Jubilee Park & Community Center
• Junior Achievement
• NARA (National Archives & Records Administration)
• Nicolini by Organicity
• North Texas Food Bank
• Operation Kindness

Other community partners at the Expo:

• Readers 2 Leaders
• Resolana
• River Legacy Living Science Center
• Ronald McDonald House
• Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park
• The Senior Source
• Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas
• Trinity River Mission
• Uplift Charter Schools
• Variety – the Children’s Charity
• Vickery Meadow Learning Center
• Vogel Alcove
• Wilkinson Center
• Workers Defense Project
• Youth Achievement Foundation
• YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas
• Room to Read DFW
• S.A.Y. What?

Campus programs at the Expo:

• Center for Community and Education
• Hart Center for Engineering Leadership
• Institute for the Study of Earth and Man
• Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility
• Tower Center for Political Studies

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