{"id":67,"date":"2010-09-06T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:12:16","slug":"service-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/about-3\/service-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As the college seeks ways to distinguish its strengths, we find that our students are increasingly making use of their service learning experiences to guide their professional endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>One example would be Shawna Lausen\u2019s \u201cSame But Different Coloring\/Activity Book\u201d that she completed with IndependenceFirst<em> after<\/em> taking Julia Kirchner\u2019s \u201cBuilding Communities\u201d course. Ms. Lausen has since been nominated for a Non-Profit Center of Milwaukee <em>Inspire by Example Award<\/em> by Carol Voss, IndependenceFirst\u2019s Public Relations and Marketing Director:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Shawna didn\u2019t plan to contribute in the way she did when she started.\u00a0 She was a student volunteer who helped with filing for a class assignment that required volunteer hours. But, during that time, something changed at her core &#8211; she learned she had more to give, liked the mission, people and organization so wanted to contribute more, and share her special gifts \u2013 something that she didn\u2019t realize she possessed at that point, but learned through volunteering.\u00a0 In the end, Shawna spent countless volunteer hours for IndependenceFirst, in the agency office, at MIAD and at home. Her work resulted in the most amazing gift to IndependenceFirst and metro Milwaukee\u2019s kids with and without disabilities.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Carol Voss<\/p>\n<p>Another example would be\u00a0Mark Gage\u2019s Senior Project in which he created two fictional public service announcements for HelpSaveTheArts.com. This campaign urges Milwaukee to, \u201cStop the Cuts\u201d and \u201cKeep the Process Alive.\u201d Mark has since been honored with a first place prize in the category of \u201cPublic Service: TV Campaign\u201d by United Adworkers for this work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the college seeks ways to distinguish its strengths, we find that our students are increasingly making use of their service learning experiences to guide their professional endeavors. One example would be Shawna Lausen\u2019s \u201cSame But Different Coloring\/Activity Book\u201d that she completed with IndependenceFirst after taking Julia Kirchner\u2019s \u201cBuilding Communities\u201d course. Ms. Lausen has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}