Math Courses:

Students hosted a Math Night at a local elementary school that was attended by students, parents & teachers. 

Students produced web pages containing grade-leveled resources for Math Teachers

Sociology Courses:

Students selected current local, state, or national issues to research.  Then, students contacted the appropriate parties to advocate justice efforts.

Science Courses:

Students produced tutoring materials for Chemistry.

Business Courses:

Students in Economics studied the issue of Organ Donation and contacted legislators with suggestions for increasing donations.

English Courses:

Students learned about a Mexican Easter tradition of  "Cascarones" (confetti-filled eggs), made many dozens of the cascarones, and hosted local elementary school children to play the traditional games.  Students then used the experience to enhance their composition writing.

Developmental Courses:

Students collected stuffed toy bears to donate to the local police department for when they make domestic disturbance calls.

Communication Courses:

In partnership with a local elementary school, students mailed 157 shoeboxes filled with telephone long distance cards, healthy snacks, and letters and drawings to wounded soldiers in a U.S. hospital in Iraq.

Working with the local police officers auxilliary, 30 needy families were treated to gifts at Christmas when students collected toys and raised money to purchase gift items.

Saturday mornings were spent by students helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity.

Students produced "The Gobblefest" which collected enough turkeys and food to feed 30 families for Thanksgiving.

Students collected used books and magazines to begin a library at a local shelter for homeless families.

Students mentored and tutored students at a local charter school.

During a 5-week summer session, students served students at the South West Skills Center by conducting a “Successfest” seminar to inform them about job interviewing skills and goal setting.  The seminar included PowerPoint presentations, skits, and a “Dress for Success” fashion show using the Skill Center students as models. Additionally, the students conducted a used clothing (business attire) drive to donate to the Skills Center for students to take and use for interviews. Over 500 business outfits for men and women were collected and dispursed.

The "Children's Hour" is a storytelling presentation to local school children by Service Learners in Public Speaking, Storytelling, and Childrens Literature classes.  This project has been ongoing for several years.  Additionally, the school children are each given a story book that is donated by the EMCC Leo Club, and refreshments are served.

Civic engagement project to have a traffic signal installed at one of the intersections at an entrance/exit on campus.  Research included surveying the campus and adjacent residential neighborhood, interviewing campus safety personnel and City of Avondale officials. Because of future growth plans at the college, the request was denied.  Students extended their project to include a driving safety campaign, creating posters and web pages with safety hints.  Students presented two safety forums in other Communication classes.

Supporting the New Life Center, a local battered womens’ and childrens’ shelter, by active involvement in the annual bowl-a-thon.  Students collected pledges, engaged in a clothing drive for the shelter, qualified to bowl 2 lanes, and acted as lane runners for the day-long event.  Students also participated in the Phoenix Walk-Run to end domestic violence.

Organized an Easter egg hunt for a local school with a high number of disadvantaged children.  Collected donations from local retailers for the prizes, and hosted the event at the school.

Organized and held a used Compact Disk (CD) drive in partnership with a local music store.  Proceeds from selling the used CDs were used to make a cash donation to a local new high school marching band program.

Production of a day-long music festival (the SAMfest) on campus that provided an opportunity for local bands to get exposure (because west-side venues are few).  Additionally, it provided entertainment for students prior to finals.  Most importantly, it served as a pragmatic opportunity for the Service Learning teams to showcase the following 4 projects and collect more items for donation to their causes.

Mentoring K-8 students at the Thomas J. Pappas Elementary School for the homeless.  Additionally, held a clothing, toys, and hygiene articles collection drive for the school children.

Tutoring ESL students on campus and for a local literacy program for migrant workers.  Additionally, held a book drive that collected over 750 books, and received a matching $500 from local Rotary Club to purchase new books.  Books were donated to the Thomas J. Pappas Elementary School for the homeless.

Planning and holding a canned food drive on and off campus. Collected over 1,000 lbs. of food that was taken to local food banks. Research and development of a bilingual education program that was communicated to local high school superintendents.

Formation of a campus club to promote tolerance, acceptance, appreciation, and respect of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Support and staffing of a local after-school mentoring and tutoring facility (the Mercy House)

Immediately following Sept. 11 and the subsequent hate crime in neighboring city, hosting and videotaping of the president of the Arizona Islamic Speakers Bureau who presented information about Islam, and an Arabic Christian priest who presented about the Arab culture in America.  Videotape was edited and disseminated on and off campus.

Assisting the West Valley Fine Arts Council in its efforts to market local musical talent by conducting surveys, interpreting findings, and making recommendations.  This eventually led to the first project listed (the SAMfest). Presentations and small group discussion facilitation at the Boys and Girls Club for the America Reads program. 

Planning, hosting, and judging at the United Communication Festival . Planning and hosting the Arizona Communication Association Fall Conference and Competition.

Judging at the Arizona Forensics League speech and debate tournaments.

Hosting a "Diversity Awareness Day" for local high school Speech and Drama students.

Planning activities calendar for local nursing home, and facilitating the activities.

Production of a procedures manual for work site.

Put processes into place on campus for dissemination of information regarding graduation (web site, schedule).

Did the groundwork on to improve communication on campus regarding student involvement in clubs and activities (including a chat room).

Assisted the Psy291 class with research on intercultural communication problems and showcased conclusions and recommendations at a campus event. Increased organ donation awareness by preparing, producing, and disseminating informational brochure and organ donor cards on and off campus.

Production of a professional brochure and television commercial recruiting students into the Communication program.

Planning and holding a used textbook trade/sales event on campus at end of semester.