College Corps: Senior Voices

Katie-Hope Hennessy, Other Undergraduate Student

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Senior Voices is a book project where the residents of SilverCrest, Eureka share their life stories in a book. You’re invited to learn more about how this project unfolded.

College Corps: Six Rivers Charter High School Battling Chronic Absenteeism

Kaelyn Trapsi, College Corp Undergraduate Student

Other

With the implementation of Rule School at 6 Rivers Charter High School, we have begun to see improvement in the attendance of the student. Continuing forward we are hoping that the issue of attended will only continue to improve.

College Corps: Students Helping Students

Alex Votaw, Other Undergraduate Student

Other

Our project examines our experience as student assistant volunteers at Arcata High School as a part of the College Corps program. We discuss what our job entails and how this model of student volunteers can be beneficial to the younger students, their teachers, and the volunteers themselves.

College Corps: Sustainability, Art, & Community at the Arcata Creative Sanctuary

Stella Stahl, Other Undergraduate Student

Other

At the Arcata Creative Sanctuary, community members come together to socialize, create art, and enjoy music. As College Corps Fellows, we got to help facilitate these activities, and help the Sanctuary better achieve its goal of becoming a space for sustainable, creative living and education.

College Corps: The Importance of Community Service

Luis Reyes, Other Undergraduate Student

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This creative project is a reflection of my year of service through College Corps and my placement at the veterans hall in Arcata. The project contains some descriptions and pictures of events that my site has been a part of over the year, those events include North Coast Stand Down, Veterans Day at McKay, and Sunday brunch. Throughout this project I reflect on my time at the veterans hall and my experience with College Corps, as well as describing the importance and benefits of providing community service. I end with a conclusion of how a program like College Corps is beneficial towards community outreach and how the program has benefited me.

College Corps: Trinidad Coastal Land Trust

Jael Villamil, Other Undergraduate Student

Other

I would like to share the importance of working with the community and the impact we can have on climate change when we do so. As well as showing how we help keep our coast clean.

College Corps: Valor and Verse Book Club

Melanie Sanchez, Other Undergraduate Student

Other

A book club hosted for Veterans and community members to come together to read and discuss topics meaningful to the veteran community.

College Instructors’ Perceived Responsibilities: A Descriptive Study

College of Professional Studies

College student demographics have been rapidly changing with more students than ever identifying as students of color, low-income students, and first-generation college students. Colleges are working to reduce equity gaps in students’ academic achievement where marginalized students typically receive lower grades than their more privileged peers. The present study investigated the perceived responsibilities of college instructors with a focus on highly equitable classroom practices. Results of the study indicate general endorsement of highly equitable classroom practices as instructors’ responsibilities. Future research can use perceptions to further assess classroom practices and behaviors.

College Students Acculturative Stress and Wellbeing: Examining School Connectedness as a Moderator

College of Professional Studies

Amongst adolescents, school connectedness has been found to predict positive student wellbeing (i.e., self esteem and depression). The present study plans to replicate these result with college students, whom experience daily stress. For some students this daily stress includes acculturative stress (i.e., psychological process of adapting to a dominant group that differs from one's heritage), which is negatively associated with wellbeing. We will examine how school connectedness buffers this association.

College Students vs. Textbook: collaborating on the creation of a sustainable tourism textbook

Ara Pachmayer, School of Applied Health Faculty

College of Professional Studies

Student in REC 435 Sustainable Tourism teamed up to write a textbook about Sustainable Tourism. In their efforts, students brainstormed a list of potential topics, clustered finalized topics around main categories, agreed on an overall format for the textbook and required elements for each chapter, researched their individual topics and completed multiple chapter drafts. The completed textbook will be published through Creative Commons and used as a resources in future tourism classes offered through the Recreation Administration program.