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Benefits of an AmeriCorps service gap year

College Forward

I was able to help with AmeriCorps recruitment, which led to falling in love with human resources,” says Lindsey, a college access coach. During a typical school week, AmeriCorps coaches manage day-to-day interactions with students while logging student engagement data into Salesforce to track student progress.

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Can Video Games Provide Meaningful Learning Experiences?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Engaging, immersive and highly interactive, video games are a $97 billion industry in the United States, making up over 6 percent of all spending on entertainment and media. Whether you like or loathe video games, the fact is that they have become one of the primary ways that many students engage with the past.