Why Are Academic Learning Projects Becoming More Popular...

Topic for Investigation: Why are Academic Learning Projects becoming more popular at Universities and what programs have contributed to impact students/nonprofits? In 2012 in was reported in an academic journal written by Karin Braunsberger and Richard Flamm it was stated that universities in the United States have been criticized for not contributing enough to the social well-being of communities within which they operate, and business schools have been accused of failing to prepare students adequately for careers in business (Braunsberger Flamm). This criticism against universities is what lead to the start of student involvement in the community by doing academic service learning projects. One particular program has been introduced†¦show more content†¦Programs like superior edge can be expected to be developed and adopted by many more universities to come. Nonprofit organizations reap the benefits of programs like superior edge through the experience and professional documents that they get from the students in the program. Academic service learning projects have become one of the best ways for Universities to make sure that their students are ready for the real world. Topic for Investigation: How do academic service learning projects done by graduate students differ or relate to undergraduate students in perspective on the impact made on nonprofits? As programs such as superior edge have been developed and University requirements have been changed to enforce the idea of student involvement the overall impact has been positive to both nonprofit programs as well as to the student. Looking further into these projects, it is now when the question of what exactly do these services provided by the students do for the organizations’ associated with them. In this topic for investigation the question that will be examined is how do academic service learning projects done by undergraduate students compare to projects done by graduate students in perspective of overall impact on a nonprofit. The two areas of interest that will be looked into when comparing the overall impact on nonprofit will be improvement of societal