Ken O'Donnell, CSU Dominguez Hills

Against the backdrop of Florida state politics and attempts to ban CRT and DEI from higher education settings, the authors embedded an intense reflection component and an assessment to gauge the efficacy and perceived educational value of a trip to the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

The EXL Scholars Program at Middle Tennessee State University provides hands-on experiences, service learning, networking with professionals, and career exploration through real-world activities. The program is now institutionalized, and students who participate graduate at a significantly higher rate.

Racial and ethnic minority students remain under-represented in experiential study abroad – frustrating efforts to address the shortage of diverse public health professionals. One program meets the challenge with an intentionally designed course making a measurable difference for minority and first-gen students, during their time in college and afterward.

A low-cost lab internship program at Delaware State University provides a cost-effective model for increasing experiential opportunities for STEM students.

A systematic review of 38 studies of counselor education foregrounds experiential learning as a signature pedagogy, supporting learner self-efficacy and identity and complementing the formal curriculum.

Experiential learning gives students a way to implement and assess their exercise and prescription skills in an authentic setting, working directly with older adults.

A co-curricular, project-based course uses high-impact practices to teach public health writing skills to students from underserved minority populations. Findings suggest both improved student performance and practice scaffolding the academic help-seeking behaviors that support graduation.

Current scholarship in experiential learning considers the influence of service immersion programming on students, but the impacts on faculty can be surprising – and just as profound.