Thursday, September 1, 2005
The KU Center for Service Learning has found a new use for the Pinet House. It will be the center’s new hub.
The Pinet House, located across 12th Street from The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St., was the location of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics before it moved to its current site west of the Lied Center. It is named after Robert Pinet, who was a history professor at the University of Kansas.
The Center for Service Learning will work together with the Center for Community Outreach to find nonprofit organizations that need assistance or volunteers. Students in individual classes will then be given a number of volunteer hours they need to complete on their own time at a certain organization.
The long-term goal of the Center for Service is to work together with faculty to provide service opportunities that deal with individual classes, said Jackson Sellers, a Volunteers in Service to America volunteer who is living at the Pinet House. Volunteers for VISTA devote a year of their lives to working for a particular community-based service organization in the area they are selected to serve.
“What is hoped is that through classroom teaching and learning, students will have the opportunity to engage their academic learning in a rich way through applying it to community needs,” Linda Luckey, assistant to Provost Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, said in an e-mail interview.
Kevin Hager, Shawnee senior and associate director of the Pinet House, spoke from personal experience when he said that volunteering as part of a class was a rewarding experience.
Hager said he has taken two sociology classes, one at the University and one at Johnson County Community College, that required service hours. He volunteered at Jubilee Cafe as part of the class at the University.
“It will give first-hand experience to students of systems they’re studying,” Hager said.
A work group, made up of students, faculty and staff, was formed in 2003 to look at the possibilities for service learning at the University, Luckey said. They decided that forming the Center for Service Learning was the best plan. The project was funded by tuition dollars.
“The Center was just recently funded and we don’t even have phones and computers yet. We will be searching for a faculty director in the coming months,” Luckey said.
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