Peer Teaching & Learning Participants Serve Their Communities

Each academic semester, Peer Teaching & Learning (PTL) participants collaborate on a service project that builds upon their sense of identity as a campus and active contributors to their community.

Campuses are centers for teaching and learning, serve as platforms and conduits for community engagement, and foster more inclusive communities. Every semester, each campus selects and conducts a community service project designed to give back visibly. Campuses establish partnerships with other organizations, local businesses, and community groups to increase collaborative and inclusive community-focused interactions.

As individuals, many of the campus participants are now serving and have served historically as volunteers in their communities. The focused opportunity to collaborate to develop an agreed-upon service project prompts a crucial societal shift from a preconceived perception of persons with disabilities as takers to that of givers. The list of PTL community service projects continues to grow and is varied.