Service Learning

1. SERVICE VIA LEARNING
ESSENTIALLEARNING OUTCOMESFORTHE 21ST CENTURY
“Quinnipiac University graduates are able to consciously and
decisively demonstrate a number of key outcomes essential to the
life and practice of a responsible, educated citizen. Graduates
acquire these outcomes through a purposeful integration of the
University Curriculum, requirements within one's major, and
experiences beyond the classroom.”

2. Interpersonal Outcomes
Written Communication:
An ability to think critically, clearly, and creatively in written
expression in areas of interest and expertise.
Oral Communication:
An ability to think critically, clearly, and creatively in oral
expression in areas of interest and expertise.
Responsible Citizenship:
An ability to recognize, analyze, and influence decisions and
actions at the local, national and global community level, and to
engage in the community as responsible citizens.

3. Interpersonal Outcomes
Diversity Awareness and Sensitivity:
An understanding of and respect for the similarities and
differences among human communities. This includes a
recognition and appreciation for the unique talents and
contributions of all individuals.
Social Intelligence:
An ability to work effectively with others, to understand and
manage interactions, and to act ethically, constructively, and
responsibly to achieve individual and common goals.

4. Intellectual Outcomes
Critical Thinking and Reasoning:
An ability to recognize problems, and to acquire, assess and
synthesize information in order to derive creative and appropriate
solutions.
Scientific Reasoning:
An ability to understand and apply scientific knowledge in order to
pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to make
decisions and express positions that are scientifically and
technologically informed. A scientifically literate person is able to
evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its
source and the methods used to generate it.

5. Intellectual Outcomes
Quantitative Reasoning:
An ability to represent mathematical information symbolically,
visually, numerically, and verbally, and to mathematical models
such as graphs, tables, and schematics in order to draw
inferences. Also, an ability to use arithmetical, algebraic,
geometric, and statistical methods to solve problems.
Information Fluency:
An ability to find and critically evaluate information from various
media, to analyze it, and communicate outcomes in the process of
solving problems in a changing and complex world. Also, an ability
to use information and computer literacy skills to manage projects
and conduct rigorous inquiry.

6. Intellectual Outcomes
Creative Thinking:
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, or expertise
in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and
working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of
innovation, divergent thinking, and risk-taking
Visual Literacy:
The ability to interpret visual messages and/or create such
messages in ways that advance thinking, decision-making, and
communications. Visual Artifacts include, but are not limited to:
electronic media, art, charts and graphs, diagrams, maps,
metaphors, data, concepts, information, strategy's, and
compounds.

7. ANIMAL THERAPY
Students visited the Orchard House Adult Day
Center and High Hopes Therapeutic Riding
Center, to explore how animals are involved
in OT and Service Learning.

8. Students With Service Animals

9. BACKPACK SAFETY
OT students taught backpack safety to over
350 students at elementary schools in
Hamden, West Haven, Wallingford, New
Haven, and Bridgeport.

10. Back-Pack Safety Day!

11. Back-Pack Safety Day!

12. THE PCP FOOT CLINIC
Students utilized their clinical skills, while
providing podiatric care to undeserved
homeless population in New Haven. It
allowed for students and professionals to
utilize their skills in achieving a common goal.

13. Students at the Men’s Shelter

14. Students at the Men’s Shelter

15. CAPITAL HILL DAY
Allows for OT students around the country to
gather in Washington D.C. and advocate to
representatives on the importance of OT
professionals in various settings.

16. Students at Hill Day!

17. J-TERM (HSC203)
In this inter-professional community based
service seminar, students work with three and
four year old children to focus on healthy
eating habits.

18. HSC 203 Healthy Eating Seminar

19. HSC 203 Healthy Eating Seminar

20. (JDRF) DIABETES WALK
70 members from the School of Nursing raised over
$1,700 for the 2013 Junior Diabetes Research
Foundation’s “Walk for the Cure”. The QSNA was joined
by other student organizations at the 3 mile walk
originating at the north haven campus.

21. JDRF’s “Walk For The Cure”

22. ALPHA DELTA PI
The Sisters of ADPi are highly involved with West
Wood Elementary in Hamden. The sisters helped
out at the “Harvest Hooplah” event, playing with
kids dressed up in their costumes. The sisters
also assist with the Ronald McDonald House
along with QU’s “The Big Event”.

23. ADPi at the “Harvest Hooplah”

24. ADPi at the Ronald McDonald House

25. ADPi at “The Big Event”

26. ASI BUSINESS TRIP
Undergraduate Business students traveled to
Leon, Nicaragua to meet with local small
business owners. Students shared expertise
in the economic theory of micro-lending and
offered small loans to facilitate personal
business goals of locals.

27. QU Business Students in Nicaragua

28. QU Students Micro-Lending

29. O.P.T.I.O.N. NICARAGUA
O.P.T.I.O.N. Nicaragua group traveled to Leon,
Nicaragua in interprofessional groups from the OT
and PT departments along with the Albert
Schweitzer institute to work with families with
limited access to health care. Students evaluated
patients, created health plans, and makeshift
health equipment.

30. O.P.T.I.O.N. Nicaragua 2014

31. O.P.T.I.O.N. Nicaragua 2014

32. O.P.T.I.O.N. Nicaragua 2014

33. GUATEMALA
Six Occupational Therapy and Physical
Therapy students from Quinnipiac, formed
interprofessional teams to work with
individuals with disabilities who didn’t have
access to proper care.

34. QU OT/PT Students in Guatemala

35. PHI SIGMA SIGMA
The sisters of Phi Sig annually host “Katie’s
Game” in honor of a sister who passed away
from leukemia in 2005. The Charities
proceeds go to Camp Sunshine, a camp for
children with terminal illness.

36. Phi Sigma Sigma “Katie’s Game”

37. PINK HAIR EXTENSIONS
QU’s Center for Interprofessional Healthcare
Education sold pink hair extensions on the
North Haven campus for $10 each for the
American Cancer Society. The event raised
$750 dollars in four hours.

38. Pink Hair Extensions

39. YALE YOUTH DAY
OT Students worked with “Safe Kids Greater
New Haven” to share information with kids
about preventing unintentional injuries at
Yale’s Youth Day.

40. OT Students at Yale Youth Day

41. ALZHEIMER'S WALK
QU Students from various majors and grades
got together to raise funds and awareness
about Alzheimer’s, and participate in a 1.5
mile walk on the path at Lighthouse Point in
New Haven.

42. Walk To End Alzheimer’s

43. QU301 SOUTH AFRICA
Students from Professor Gallay’s QU301 Class
traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to preform
service with the Tippy Toes foundation. Also, the
students experienced the society and culture
taught in their classes at QU.

44. QU301 South Africa

45. QU301 South Africa

46. SEW TO GROW
Quinnipiac Occupational Therapy Students
participated in “Sew to Grow” to teach the
therapeutic qualities sewing has to the local
residents.

47. QU OT “Sew To Grow”

48. CT STATE PARK SERVICE
QU Students helped preserve state parks by
completing service trips, where they removed
trash, removed invasive brush species, and
helped maintain hiking trails.

49. CT State Park Service Trips

50. DOMINICAN SERVICE TRIP
Twenty QU students spent nine days of winter
break serving the local community near La
Romana, Dominican Republic. The students
presented a local family with a new house,
that they built during their stay there.

51. Dominican Service Trip

52. KIDS ON THE BLOCK
Kids On The Block is an international puppet
program for kids year 3 through 6th grade.
Through story-telling the show teaches kids
ability awareness, tolerance, and acceptance
of children by children.

53. Kids On The Block and QU

54. DARCY SCHOOL
Quinnipiac Occupational Therapy students
assisted at the Cheshire Public School: Darcy
Birth to Three program. The students provided
information on developmental milestones while
also offering support and education for caregivers
and parents.

55. QU-OT at the Darcy Program

56. CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
Students of the “Establishing Clinical Pathways
for Functional Mobility and Ambulation in the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit” assisted the staff at
CT’s Children's Medical Center in streamlining
patient Management

57. Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

58. HEALTH FAIR
Students in Professor Becky Purcell's Service
Learning Nutrition class visit Elementary Schools
in Hamden. QU students are educating 2nd
graders on the importance of following the healthy
eating guide, MyPlate.

59. Health Fair

60. PHILIPPINES FUNDRAISER
Philippines Fundraiser: In response to the devastation
that happened in the Philippines, a $5 All-You-Can-Eat
Filipino Dinner was arranged in order to raise money
for Super Typhoon Haiyan Relief. The event raised
over $1500 for the Philippine Red Cross and the World
Food Programme.

61. Philippines Fundraiser

62. RESTORE TRIP
ReStore Trip: The ladies of Dana East 2nd Floor
volunteered at the newly opened Habitat ReStore in
Wallingford, CT. The ReStore sells gently used
furniture, appliances, lighting, cabinets, vanities, and
other household-related items. The proceeds are used
to build Habitat homes in the Greater New Haven area.

63. ReStore Trip

64. Nicaragua
Quinnipiac student Sydney Reichin walking in La Ceiba,
Nicaragua with her translators conducting research in the local
village.

65. Nicaragua
View of rural Nicaragua outside of the city capital, Managua.

66. Nicaragua
View of León, Nicaragua on the rooftop of Cathedral of León.

67. Nicaragua
Occupational and physical therapy students along with several
faculty members travel to Guatemala every year to work hands
on with children and adults in need of physical rehabilitation.

68. Nicaragua
Strong connections are made between the students and the
many Nicaraguan natives that they have the pleasure of
working with. These friendships as well as the impacts they
have, extend far beyond the length of the trip.

69. Nicaragua
Students get a genuine feel for the magnificent culture when
they stay with host families while in Hoya de Los Flores,
Guatemala.

70. Nicaragua
These physical therapy students help teach a man who has
difficulty walking, to use a rolling walker in order to be a more
mobile in function at a higher level.

71. Guatemala Alternative Spring Break trip
The Guatemala Alternative Spring Break Trip Delegation
worked to construct a basketball court in the community of
Provenir. The ultimate aspiration is to provide children with a
productive outlet in which they can channel their efforts away
from negative alternatives.

72. Battle Creek, MI- Habitat for Humanity
Over Spring Break eleven students and one staff member
traveled to Battle Creek MI to work with Habitat for Humanity
where they worked in the ReStore, salvaged materials, painted
the new offices, installed a wheel chair ramp and insulated the
basement of home.

73. Faculty Scholars & Student
Service Learning Celebration