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I would definitely hope that students

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would recognize the value of what

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they're doing and the importance of

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seeing that their academic knowledge is

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central to what they're working on in

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their community placement but also that

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concurrent to that they're really

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thinking about the interests of the

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organization itself that they're placed

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within I think sometimes you can feel as

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though your academic goals maybe aren't

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necessarily being met or centered in

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your placement experience but it's

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really important to remember that you're

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only there for a few days a week and

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well what you're doing is so meaningful

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and essential for that organization

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there's also a bigger picture that you

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might not necessarily be in tune with

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and so to recognize that it's not as

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though your placement supervisors aren't

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cognizant of the value for the academic

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for yourself but also that they're kind

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of orienting themselves a slightly

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different way so you're a part of the

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picture but you're not necessarily the

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central focus within it if you are going

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to sign up for a CEO course or a CEO

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opportunity that you're committed to it

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because there's been a lot of background

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work both from the community and from

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the faculty put into putting it together

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and also there's a real need for you to

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be there and in that in that

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relationship so what you produce is

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actually going to be quite useful so if

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you're going to do it I would say be

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committed to it because it's really

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quite important that that relationship

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gets maintained and it's positive so I

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think community engaged learning

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students should come prepared they

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should do maybe a little bit of research

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first so often with the courses that

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I've been involved in there's a number

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of placement opportunities that can

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speak to different interests in student

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spam and so for students to really think

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about what intersects with their own

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interests and then also remember to

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communicate openly with your community

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partners so if you're facing a challenge

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or you're busy in midterms or exams that

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you really let your community partner

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know you know the challenges maybe with

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your schedule for example and so that

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they can come best accommodate you in

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the experience to be mindful of who you

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are in terms of your position ality and

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be mindful of that where your placement

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is so you may be doing frontline work

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where you require us to

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cultural sensitivity suggests always

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keep yourself in check and make sure

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that the way that you're behaving is is

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in a sensitive manner to your placement

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I think the critical thing for me is not

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to look at it as strictly a volunteer

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opportunity I think the idea is to take

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a close and critical lens to what is

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happening in communities and who and

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what organizations and what types of

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players are building the social

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infrastructure that keeps our city great

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the if you go in thinking about it as

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it's sort of transactionally so that

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it's I'm getting experience and I'm

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giving a service to an organization you

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lose out on the richness of what a

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community engaged learning experience

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can offer