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Abstract:
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Academic civic engagement (ACE) is defined as "course-based learning activities [including service learning] that engage the college in partnership with the community in which it is located." While it is hard to disagree with the powerful possibilities that projects incorporating ACE bring to an applied undergraduate course in statistics, nothing good comes for free. In order to successfully incorporate a semester-long ACE project that provides a valuable final product for the community partner, traditional project guidelines may need to be altered and traditional items from the class syllabus may need to be pruned. This talk will describe my experiences with ACE during an introductory class in statistics, including guidelines used, course topics sacrificed, reaction from students and community partners, and lessons learned for future implementations.
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