“Suddenly, droves of students were walking through my door, interrupting my day and asking, ‘What can I do here?’ ” she says. “A whole other crowd would send résumé after résumé after résumé expecting me to call them back. Still other ones would come in and say, ‘How about some research on X?’ in August and then show up in late October saying their thesis really needed to be about Y.

“It was total havoc.”

Read about how Betty and other community hosts have addressed these kinds of issues that arise in Community-Based Education-like projects in a December 29, 2009 New York Times article.

Leo Charbonneau has written an article entitled Community Connections for University Affairs which tracks the growth of Community Service-Learning programs across Canada.  Following up on a cover story published just over five years ago, Charbonneau interviewed a number of key informants across the country to provide an overview of current activities, concluding that "Students are the driving force behind the rapid growth of community service learning projects across the country".  The article appears in the October 2009 print edition of the magazine. Click here to view the article online. 

 University Affairs is a magazine for and about Canada’s university community which has been published continuously since 1959 by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.

In the summer of 2009, the Peterborough Social Planning Council released their monthly InfoNote that highlighted a 2008-2009 Community-Based Education Project.  The research and analysis project entitled, “Intellectual Disabilities Awareness Survey” was conducted by fourth year Mathematics students Alicia Woodward and Ben Angle, of Trent University. The project was conducted in partnership with the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education and Community Living Peterborough. To read the Info Note click here.