28-04-2025
Labette College students shine through service-learning projects
Students at Labette Community College (LCC) use a classroom assignment to make an impact on the world.
Each semester — students in Tanya Neisis' public relations class are assigned 'service-learning projects' to complete. These can cover a wide range of topics like the food pantry at the idea is to give students real world experience they can use on a resume while helping connect them to the community. Students are responsible for strategic planning, event promotions, and interacting with the media…and it helps if it's a project they connect with.
'We didn't have so much in our student pantry, and after my project, they were, like, 'Wow, T, there's a lot in there for us,' because some people come from homes where parents can't afford food, and so our community here, for me to be able to help them, it was really a big thing,' said Tanihya Porter, LCC Sophomore.
'If I can get students to see the importance of education and civic engagement, and civic responsibility, and I feel like service learning is the way to do that,' said Tanya Neisis, LCC Communication Professor.
This is the 16th year for the service learning projects at of this year's other projects: the Erie Special Olympics.
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