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Service Learning & Leadership News

Service Learning & Leadership (SLL) partners with faculty and community agencies to provide curricular service learning experiences, offers co-curricular service and leadership programs, directs an 18 credit Leadership and Civic Engagement Minor, and oversees the endowed Engelstad Scholars Program.

Current Service Learning & Leadership News

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Campus News |

Learn what tools and information are available to students to participate in the electoral process, and how faculty and staff can support voter engagement.

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Campus News |

News highlights featuring UNLV faculty and students who made local and national headlines.

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Campus News |

Heather Richardson receives a 2023 Community Engagement Award for her work expanding the resources for students who were in foster care.

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Campus News |

Honors College students help local shelters to expand their libraries while learning more about housing insecurity issues prevalent in the U.S.

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Campus News |

Students facing basic needs challenges can access food packages, toiletry items, in-person guidance, and other important resources related to their physical and mental wellness.

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Top Tier Award winner Rian Satterwhite helps ignite a sense of community service in UNLV students.

Service Learning & Leadership In The News

Las Vegas Sun

A student rushes across the UNLV campus just before lunch with a mail-in ballot in hand, darting past the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and into the polling site at Lied Library.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Wigs, socks, flags, pick-up trucks: everything looks as if it had been sired by a rainbow.

Associated Press

Over the last 20 years, fewer and fewer people in the U.S. have donated their time through volunteering with nonprofits.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

UNLV is asking for donations to host events for students in need following a busy first-ever "Take What You Need" pop-up on Tuesday.

VoiceAmerica

Our guests represent multiple frameworks on leadership and the environment. They would like leaders to consider the biosphere as one of the primary frames of leadership.

Service Learning & Leadership Experts

An expert in leadership development, service-learning, and community engagement.

Recent Service Learning & Leadership Accomplishments

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership; Student Affairs) attended the International Leadership Association's Future Forward Summit, hosted by the University of Colorado-Boulder. The event marked 25 years of the International Leadership Association and drew together leadership scholars, practitioners, and journal editors to envision…
Rian Satterwhite (Office of Service Learning & Leadership / Student Affairs) is participating in a small invited group to craft one of the next Carnegie elective classifications for the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie Foundation. Satterwhite recently participated in a working meeting in Atlanta, hosted by Morehouse College…
Karly Van Holten and Brooklyn Cruz (both Service Learning & Leadership) presented "Empowering Minds: Strategies for Transformative Learning Environment" at the 2024 UNLV Administrative Faculty Development Day. The aim of this workshop was to help educators and youth-facing professionals draw on their own experiences, motives, and…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership; Student Affairs) was a guest on Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leaders, one of the official podcasts of the International Leadership Association. Rian joined fellow guest Kathy Allen, author of Leading From The Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today's World, and host Scott Allen (…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning & Leadership) recently presented at The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) and Campus Compact national conferences. Topics included a recent collaborative research initiative studying how institutions of higher education engage with and compensate community partners for their time and…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) was recently featured on The Leadership Educator podcast as a returning guest. Satterwhite and his collaborators Kate Sheridan (Duquesne University) and Whitney McIntyre Miller (Chapman University) recently edited special issue 179 of New Directions for Student Leadership. Titled, “Teaching…