Faculty members from across the campus are discovering the energizing effect of incorporating community-based learning into their courses. Undoubtedly, community-based learning requires some non-traditional thinking, plus extra time and effort. However, the positive impact on both teaching and learning in CBLI courses affirms that the extra work is more than worth the effort. On this site, you can learn more about your colleagues' courses, their community-based partners and projects, and their creative ideas for enriching the academic experience of their students.

The benefits of community-based learning include:

motivating students to participate actively in the work of the course providing opportunities for students to apply classroom concepts and information to real situations transforming student research assignments into concrete learning experiences giving students the chance to "make a difference" with the own work by sharing their research and conclusions with community organizations working on real problems enlivening the exchange of ideas and experiences in class learning from your students as they share their projects with you and their classmates connecting with your own research interests and expanding your knowledge of and contacts with the community in which many of us live

Please contact us at cbli@princeton.edu, or Trisha Thorme at 8-6986, for more information. We are very interested in working with you to help think through a community-based component for your course and to identify community partners.