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ISU Students Help Make a Difference
Students in Hallsten's class
handing over a donation check
to the Salvation Army
Students in Jodi Hallsten’s Small Group Processes class learned how working in small groups can help make a huge difference by raising almost $7,000 for charitable organizations this semester through their course projects. As part of the course, students were required to organize and implement a fundraising project for organizations such as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, and the United Way.". “I could not be more proud of my students,” Hallsten commented. “I really challenged them this semester, and they certainly rose to the occasion. They learned more than I ever could have imagined, and I learned too, right along side of them, in ways I never anticipated.”

 

Students executed projects for Feed the Children, CARE, the Salavation Army, Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the Red Cross. Through a balloon sale and launch, students raised $3,675 for Feed the Children, which helped purchase a truckload of food and basic necessities for 400 families in Bloomington-Normal. For CARE, students raised $285 through a 3-on-3 basketball tournament; through a bowling night students raised $1,321 for the Salvation Army and the United Way for such causes as Tsunami relief efforts and childcare assistance programs for needy families; students raised $388 through a car wash for Habitat for Humanity; and through a pizza sale in Fell and Stevenson Halls students raised $1,001 for the Red Cross to be used for the Military Troop Support Services Program.

“This course project illustrates just one more way that education at ISU aims to prepare students to become civically engaged citizens,” said Dean Olson. “I commend Hallsten and her students for their innovation and dedication.”
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