| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 53.05 |
| Liaison | April Thompson |
| Submission Date | Sept. 22, 2023 |
Creighton University
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
April
Thompson Project and Reporting Coordinator Office of Sustainability |
Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:
The Schlegel Center for Service and Justice (SCSJ, offers at least one, and usually more, sustainability-themed Fall and Spring Break Service Trip each year. Sustainability is one pillar of each of the offered service trips. Trips have included a sustainability-theme immersion in Omaha,
included: urban gardens, rural sustainability, energy independence, organic farming, oil, coal, and natural gas extraction, and animal husbandry.
Creighton's backpack journalism takes students on trips across the country and the globe for an immersive trip. From the website:
"Every other summer, about 16 Creighton students and several faculty members travel to a community in search of a story. It might be to rural Alaska or postwar Uganda. Wherever they go, they bring a passion for social justice, journalism, and film-making.
The students immerse themselves in these communities through interviewing, filming, recording and blogging for five weeks. When they return to Creighton, they take the stories they’ve collected and develop them into a short documentary film."
Website URL where information about the institution’s immersive education programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
More can be found by exploring the CCSJ's Service Trip website:
http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/sjt/
More information about the backpack journalism program https://www.creighton.edu/arts-sciences/academics/backpack-journalism
More can be found by exploring the CCSJ's Service Trip website:
http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/sjt/
More information about the backpack journalism program https://www.creighton.edu/arts-sciences/academics/backpack-journalism
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