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Council for Spiritual & Ethical Education (CSEE)This section is still under construction, but includes articles written for the CSEE Connections by Charis Denison. Please check back here soon for more. Community Service News Those of us in the community service profession have always known its value for students. We have spent many passionate hours with administrations, parents, colleagues and students discussing the merits of service as experiential education. However, from many conversations with my own students and from talking to dozens of service directors over the past few years, I am deeply concerned about a trend I see. ... Continue reading. Community Service News I recently got a letter from an old student of mine. He’s a med student now with plans to work in a free clinic when he finishes his degree (if there are any by the time he finishes his degree). In his letter, he wrote about how service learning allowed him to do things. It allowed him to enter this career path with confidence and to test the opinions he was being raised with in his family. He said that teenagehood was so full of “ grey areas.” All of a sudden, nothing felt certain. Nothing was clear. He felt on the precipice of embracing and rejecting many values he was surrounded by in his youth. Community service gave him moments of clarity. “This is good. I am helping someone in this moment. … I know I am adept at this skill. … I know I am making a difference right here.” ... Continue reading.
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