Even though the University’s Charter Day of Service for 2020 had been cancelled by circumstances, Assistant Sociology Professor Shelley Grant encouraged her students to serve our community in a different way: By virtually volunteering to help guide local high school …
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Jacksonville University student-mentors host students from the community for campus tour
Twenty-six Jacksonville University students from Professor Shelley Grant’s Media and Crime class recently hosted 26 students from Terry Parker High School and Arlington Middle School for a campus tour and lunch.
The event is the culmination of a service learning …
Read More »JU’s Partnership with Communities in Schools: Seven Years of Impact
By Carley Stickney
For more than seven years, the Media in Crime course offered at Jacksonville University (JU) has partnered with Communities in Schools (CIS), an organization that works directly inside classrooms to empower students to succeed.
CIS has a …
Read More »A closer look at each other’s lives inspires JU sociology students along with their Arlington mentees
Students in Sociology Professor Shelley Grant’s Media and Crime class reconnected with youths from Arlington area schools this week to culminate their semester-long mentoring together and give the young mentees a taste of campus life. (See a Facebook photo …
Read More »JU reaches out to help Arlington students learn about college — and life
College students can do wonders for a youth with a half-semester of mentoring – or even a half-day.
The results of both approaches were on display on the same day recently as Jacksonville University students connected with youths from Arlington …
Read More »Mentoring helps sociology students bust juvenile justice myths outside the classroom
When Sociology Prof. Shelley Grant first envisioned a mentor project for her Media and Crime students three years ago, she hoped for just the kind of outcome she got with JaNay Burrows and Kamryn Satterwhite.
Burrows, 23, a junior Social …
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