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About the Collection
This course builds on the First-Year Seminar (FYS) to prepare students with skills and knowledge to promote academic success and retention. Major areas of focus include: inquiry and critical thinking skills, communication, global/multicultural awareness, intellectual and life-long learning perspectives, and citizenship and ethics. Anticipated outcomes are: connections with faculty and peers, overall college engagement, and improvement in academic skills.
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Project 150
Jason Pagtolingan
5-6-2019Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.
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Three Square
Kamal Jenkins
5-3-2019Three Square is an organization that helps people who are food insecure.
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Project 150: High School’s Tough Enough
Lorena Altabaz
5-2-2019Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.
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Friends of Sloan Canyon
Nicole Nitschke
5-2-2019Sloan Canyon, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing community support and educational resources that enhance the conservation, protection and public enjoyment of Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, one of your National Conservation Lands.
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Project F.O.C.U.S
Chelsea Rogers
5-2-2019Project FOCUS addresses the lack of inclusion within the higher education environment.
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Three Square
Jessica Smith
5-2-2019Three Square is an organization that helps people who are food insecure.
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Project 150: High School’s Tough Enough
Korina Czajka
5-1-2019Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.
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Project 150
Edith Garibay
5-1-2019Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.
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Project Focus
Anankan Thangaratnam
12-6-2018FOCUS addresses the social issue of trying to Mimic the same college and life experience for Autistic students as for non-Autistic students. Currently the issue is improving, but needs more Marketing to ensure every eligible student is Aware of it. The ideal state is for every Autistic Student achieve confidence and independence, And the world around them to be more Inclusive. I agree with FOCUS that this is A great way to do it, and with more funding and Marketing it can be achieved.
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Three Square
Emily Teliska
12-5-2018The social issue that Three Square addresses is food insecurity. Food insecurity occurs when people aren't able to secure enough food for a healthy diet and active lifestyle, at some point during the year.
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Service Learning
Ken Wu
12-5-2018We are facing many kinds of pollution as human progress with technology. For example, after the world is industrialized, we are facing the risk of global warming and air pollution. Also, The invention of the irrigation system cause desertification. While we are trying to find a replacement for fossil fuels, we created contamination along the way, we started affecting the wild lives around us and it is beginning to affect us.
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Project 150
Kyla Borja
12-4-2018Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.
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The Breakdown
Jada Campbell
12-4-2018The Breakdown team strives to be positive role models for our youth by educating them to overcome tobacco usage, peer pressure, societal norms, and environmental.
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Community Service Trifecta
Vitoria Queiroz
12-4-2018The first Rebel Homecoming Festival was started to celebrate homecoming week. It was on Thursday right before the big game. The purposeof the festival was to bring all colleges together to celebrate UNLV as a whole. Girls on the Run is an non-profit program that strives to teach young women self-love and how to live a healthy life. They do this by running an afterschool program that focus on education and self-esteem building. At the end of the year the girls run a celebratory 5K run. The Boys and Girls Clubs is organization that offers a variety of afterschool programs and activities. The main purpose of the program is to provide a safe place for children to go and stay off the streets.
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Arbor View High School Marching Band
Mateo Rodriguez-Maldonado
12-4-2018The social issue that the AVHS Band and the Band Boosters face is the lack of funding for the program. The Clark County School District has been reducing the budget of many schools in the past decade. This year, over $17.6 million has been cut from all high schools in the county and Arbor View has loss $579 thousand dollars in budget cuts (Forest 2018).
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Spread the Word
Janet Wu
12-4-2018The goal for the organization is to make the children have their own library at home, especially for the elementary school kids. They can read and share their book to their friend and family. The organization hopes that third grade children can read because it is hard for them to catch out with other kid if they do not know how to read.
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Spread the Word Nevada
Leonardo Gonzalez
12-3-2018Spread the Word addresses the issue of literacy among children, in particular those who come from low income households.
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TCMI Church
Rosa Gonzalez
12-3-2018TCMI has been working to stop hunger here in the Las Vegas community.
