Talk:Campus-Engaged Learning Activity

Introduction is a wall of text. This means it won't actually get read. Someone want to fix it? Ihm08 01:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Some History Which May Be of Interest
Some many not know this, but historically Hampshire's community service requirement,

now known as campus-engaged learning activity, was originally placed in Division III.

The current incarnation of CEL-1 and CEL-2 has its origins in Hampshire's obsession with

student retention, and the use of centrally-imposed deadlines and structure as a means

of addressing student attrition. The theory has been that by moving the community service

requirement from Division III to an earlier point in time, students would be more fully

integrated into the Hampshire community during the critical first three semesters when

most would otherwise leave, if they had that predilection. Lately the justification for CEL-1

and CEL-2 has also come to include a pseudo-intellectual sop to non-course-based learning

in the wake of the complete change of Hampshire to a primarily course-based system.

Documentation of the retentionist axis origins of the pre-div III community service/campus

engaged learning requirements can be found in the reports of retention committees from

1978-1981 as well as the Long Range Planning Committee Report of 1981.