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J.D. Admissions Standard

To gain admission to the Santa Clara University School of Law’s Juris Doctor program, an applicant must exhibit a demonstrated capacity to successfully complete the School of Law’s program of legal education and thereafter pass a state bar examination. In evaluating applications, the School of Law assesses each applicant’s attributes and qualifications holistically, without any single criterion being determinative. Admissions decisions therefore depend upon consideration of a variety of factors. These factors include the applicant’s performance on ABA-approved admission tests; undergraduate academic record and course of study; academic performance in graduate or professional programs; demonstrated writing ability; extracurricular and volunteer activities; work experience; obstacles overcome; and potential contribution to the diversity of the student body. In addition, the School of Law considers evidence of an applicant’s character and moral fitness in an attempt to assess the applicant’s suitability to practice law and qualification for admission to a state bar.

To be considered for admission as a first-year student, applicants must (i) register with the Law School Admission Council’s (LSAC) Credential Assembly Service (CAS), and (ii) take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) or other ABA-approved admission test. (These steps are preferred but not required for applicants seeking admission as transfer students.) All applicants must demonstrate that they have earned (or will earn prior to matriculation) a bachelor’s degree that has been awarded by an institution that is accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. Applicants who have graduated from an institution outside the United States may apply if the quality of the program of education of their degree-granting institution is equivalent to that of institutions accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.

Foreign applicants who have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent and are proficient in English are eligible to apply. Applicants who have completed all of their undergraduate work at institutions outside of the United States, its territories, or Canada must have those institutions send their transcripts directly to LSAC.

First-Year Program

The first year of law school introduces students to the fundamentals of legal analysis and to the substantive law in several basic subjects. First-year J.D. courses are listed below.

Legal Research and Writing 1 and 2 Contracts 1 and 2 Torts Property Criminal Law Civil Procedure 1 and 2 Critical Lawyering Skills 1 and 2

Coursework totaling 28 units is prescribed for full-time JD students.

All continuing Flex J.D. students must take the remaining classes through the Flex JD program. Law Student Services will enroll second year Flex JD students in Civil Procedure 1 (2 units), Civil Procedure 2 (3 units) and Critical Lawyering Skills II (1 unit). 

Advanced Curriculum

The School of Law offers a wide range of one-semester advanced courses. See the complete list at  law.scu.edu/course-listing/ . Required courses are listed below.

– LAW 105. Advocacy  – LAW 200. Constitutional Law: Governmental Structure (formerly Constitutional Law I) – LAW 201. Constitutional Law: Individual Rights (formerly Constitutional Law II) – LAW 302. Professional Responsibility – LAW 320. Evidence

Upper Division Proficiency (UP) Points

• The UP system will not apply to first-year students. The system focuses exclusively on

the upper division.

• Upper division courses eligible for proficiency points:

– LAW 200. Constitutional Law: Government Structure (formerly Constitutional Law I) (Required Course) – LAW 201. Constitutional Law: Individual Rights (formerly Constitutional Law II) (Required Course) – LAW 248 Business Organizations – LAW 281. Wills & Trusts – LAW 290. Community Property – LAW 302. Professional Responsibility (Required Course) – LAW 310. Criminal Procedure: Investigation – LAW 320. Evidence (Required Course) – LAW 324. Remedies – LAW 540. Advanced Torts – LAW 543. Real Estate Conveyancing

• The minimum grade necessary to earn a point: Students must receive a C+ or better in an

UP-eligible course to earn one UP point.

      4. Expected number of UP points: Students are expected to earn at least 4 points in UP-eligible courses. A student must continue attempting to earn UP points each semester until they have earned 4 points. In the final semester, a student who has not earned four points must enroll in either one or two UP eligible courses such that the student is able to satisfy the policy. If the student earns the remaining UP points or course credit in the UP-eligible course(s), the student will be deemed to have satisfied the policy’s requirements for the sake of earning their degree.

     5. Monitoring Student Progress Toward Completion of the UP Requirement:

a) All upper division students are required to enroll in four or more UP-eligible classes prior to the completion of 54 units. The typical full-time student will enroll in two UP-eligible classes each semester until the UP point requirement is satisfied. The typical part-time student will enroll in one UP-eligible class during their 2L fall semester, and two UP-eligible classes each semester thereafter until the UP point requirement is satisfied. Students who have earned exactly three UP points are required to enroll in at least one UP-eligible class in the following semester. Deviations from this typical approach must be approved by Law Student Services in consultation with the Office of Academic & Bar Success. All JD/MBA and JD/MSIS students must seek approval for their course schedules by Law Student Services each term.

b) Students must take all UP-eligible courses for a grade until after they have successfully earned four UP points.

c) For students who have completed 54 units or more, the Law Student Services Office will compute the number of UP points that each student has earned in upper division courses as of the first day of each new semester. Any student who has earned fewer than three points in upper division courses will be required to enroll in at least two UP-eligible classes during that semester. Students who have earned exactly three UP points are required to enroll in at least one UP-eligible class in the following semester.

d) All students who fail to earn at least three UP points in upper division courses by the time they have completed 54 units will be required to complete 373b, Advanced Legal Writing: Bar Exam in their final semester before they graduate from law school, and receive individual counseling from a faculty member from the Office of Academic and Bar Success.

Transfer students may receive UP credit for course work completed at their home school as long as they have taken an UP-eligible class and received a C+ or higher as an upper-division student. Students may not receive UP credit for a course, even if it is categorized as UP-eligible, if it was taken as part of the first-year curriculum at the school from which they transferred. 

With prior approval from the senior assistant dean for student services, students may enroll in a course at another law school that would be UP-point eligible at the School of Law. Such students may receive UP credit for this course work so long as they have taken a course geared towards upper-division students and received a C+ or higher. Students may not receive UP credit for a course, even if it is categorized as UP-eligible, if it was taken as part of the first-year curriculum at the other law school. Please refer to the section titled,  Visiting at Other Law Schools , for details.

Experiential Course Requirement

As a condition to graduation, each student must successfully complete one or more experiential course(s) totaling at least six credit hours. An experiential course is a simulation course, a law clinic, or a field placement that focuses on professional skills needed for competent and ethical participation as a member of the legal profession.

• Experiential courses are determined by the law school and may include skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, fact development and analysis, trial practice, document drafting, conflict resolution, organization and management of legal work, collaboration, cultural competency, and self-evaluation.
• The Associate Dean for Experiential Learning in collaboration with the professor will determine which courses satisfy the experiential course requirements and they will be designated as such in the course description.
• A student may not use a course to satisfy more than one requirement for graduation.

Regular Classroom Instruction Requirement

The law school’s accrediting agency requires that students complete at least 64 credit hours in courses that require attendance in regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct faculty instruction. The credit hours may include credit hours earned by attendance in regularly scheduled classroom sessions or direct faculty instruction and credit hours earned by participation in a simulation course or law clinic.

Course units awarded for all field placements, Juvenile Justice courses, the Panetta Fellowship program, independent research, coursework completed in another department and co-curricular activities such as journals, moot court, and trial competitions will not meet this requirement.

Distance Education Credit Limitations

Santa Clara Law’s J.D. program is not a Distance Education J.D. Program, which means that student participation in online courses is subject to limitations set forth by the ABA. Specifically, ABA Standard 311 provides that a law school that does not offer a J.D. degree via distance education: (1) may grant a student up to one-third of the credit hours required for the J.D. degree for Distance Education Courses; and (2) up to 10 of those credit hours may be granted during the first one-third of a student’s program of legal education. To assist students in complying with the ABA Distance Education standards, starting in Summer 2023, the law school will designate courses as Distance Education at the time of registration. Faculty teaching those courses which have not been designated as Distance Education at the time of registration will make every attempt to ensure any remote instruction does not exceed one-third of the class time. However, in rare extenuating circumstances, a course may need to be moved to online, and changed to a Distance Education course, mid-semester. If that occurs, students will be notified immediately. The ABA Standards provide an exception for students attending courses remotely with accommodations provided under law (such as the Americans with Disabilities Act) or other exceptional circumstances. If you wish to seek an accommodation, contact the Office of Accessible Education at Santa Clara University.

Academic Progress Report

Students should check their degree progress regularly by reviewing the Graduation Requirements Worksheet in the Pink Book and their Academic Progress Report in Workday.

For more information regarding the Juris Doctor program of study, contact the  Student Services Office .

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Capilano University’s Open Education grants have been awarded for the 2021/2022 academic year.

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• Diverse and Inclusive Representation in OER – BCcampus Part of the Getting Started: OER Publishing guide from BCcampus, this chapter provides guidelines on how to ensure your OER content is both diverse and inclusive.
• First Nations Pedagogy Online A resource to support educators in exploring learning practices and strategies rooted in Indigenous pedagogy.

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• Disabled and Here "Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)." Images available under a CC BY 4.0 license
• The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary "The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. "This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives." Images available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
• Nappy "[W]e launched nappy ... to provide beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else." "Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements." Images available under a CC0 1.0 license
• PICNOI "We are a coop of stock image photography. We recognize that most other FREE stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color." "We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images." Images available under a CC BY 4.0 license 
• AllGo "[A]collection of stock photography featuring plus-size office workers—available at no cost—to increase the representation of plus-size office workers in media" Openly licensed, but not with a CC license

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Find a range of openly licensed materials for your classroom, including activities, worksheets and assignments.

• MERLOT Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
• National Science Digital Library A curated collection of open educational resources (OERs) for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Search by keyword or browse by subject or resource type.
• OASIS Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 62 different sources and contains 160,785 records.
• OER Commons A public digital library of open educational resources (OERs). Search by subject or material type under "Discover."
• SOL*R A repository service provided by BCcampus that allows educators to access free online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by B.C. post-secondary educators.

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Look for open textbooks in your subject area – start by browsing the links below.

• BCCampus Open Textbook/OER Directory A list of open textbooks/OER collections and academic presses, put together by BCcampus .
• Directory of Open Access Books A directory to increase the discoverability of open access books. Includes thousands of academic peer-reviewed books and chapters.
• LibreTexts A living library of multi-institutional collaborative open-access texts and courses to improve postsecondary education. Explore different disciplines in the top menu.
• Open Textbook Library A collection of 700+ open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

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Want to find openly licensed images to use in your course materials? Take a look at the following sites – and be sure to check the specific usage rights for any image you select, as licenses can vary.

• Creative Commons Image Search Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons license s.
• NounProject A collection of icons under public domain or creative commons licenses. User can pay a fee to use the icon without attribution.
• Pixabay Stunning Free Images. Over 1.6 million royalty free stock photos and videos shared by Pixabay's talented community.
• Unsplash Unsplash has a photograph collection of more than 500,000 images. All images are free to use, even for commercial purposes.

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Adopt an open textbook

If you are an instructor interested in adopting an open textbook to use in your classroom, learn more about it on BCCampus' Use OER in Your Institution page. 

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BCCampus is looking for Subject Matter Experts (SME) from B.C. or other parts of Canada to review textbooks being considered for the   B.C. Open Textbook Collection .

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Interested in creating or adapting an open textbook? Learn more about Pressbooks , an open-source, web-based authoring and publishing platform.

Learn more about open education

For more information about open education at CapU, contact Alyssa Hamer, Open Education Faculty Associate, at [email protected] .

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Introduction.

Santa Clara Law, centered in the heart of Silicon Valley just 40 miles south of San Francisco, is located on the lush, historic, 105-acre campus of Santa Clara University, California’s oldest operating institution of higher learning. The University was founded by the Jesuits in 1851 on the site of the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, one of California’s original 21 missions. Established in 1911, Santa Clara Law has fostered an exceptional academic program based on the Jesuit tradition for more than 100 years. Approved by the ABA, Santa Clara Law is a member of the Order of the Coif and the Association of American Law Schools.

Santa Clara Law is dedicated to educating lawyers who lead with a commitment to excellence, ethics, and social justice. The school offers students an academically rigorous program including certificates in high tech law, privacy law, international law, and public interest and social justice law, as well as numerous graduate and joint-degree options. Santa Clara Law is nationally distinguished for its faculty engagement, preparation for practice, and top-ranked programs in intellectual property.

Centered around a historic California Mission with beautiful gardens, Santa Clara Law is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, one of the most vibrant and exciting economies in the world.  South of the world-class city of San Francisco, Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation and home to leading law firms as well as numerous leading companies such as Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo!, and Facebook. Unlike any place else on earth, the region is the epicenter of innovation, attracting extraordinary talent and resources. It is a proving ground for new scientific and technological industries and trailblazing ventures. Santa Clara Law is a major contributor to the economic and social strength of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond through its students, faculty, signature programs, and the outstanding legal practitioners it provides to business, industry, and government. Santa Clara Law provides a substantial percentage of the law school graduates in the area, and there are exceptional opportunities for externships and careers in intellectual property, venture capital, biotechnology, antitrust, and privacy.

Santa Clara Law’s ideal location enhances the curriculum, including the nationally acclaimed high tech and intellectual property programs, which feature experienced Silicon Valley executives and attorneys who share their experience in courses, workshops, and lectures. Students also benefit from the school’s location through internship and job opportunities, lectures, and networking events.

In addition, the San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most beautiful regions in the United States, and the Mediterranean climate boasts sun more than 300 days a year. North of Santa Clara are the world-class cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco; southwest are the coastal towns of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur.

Santa Clara Law is one of the most  diverse  law schools in the nation , and the school offers an array of programs that encourage and support diversity . Santa Clara Law students learn with students from all 50 states and numerous foreign countries, and they are taught by a diverse and talented group of faculty members who are committed to an inclusive learning experience.

Thirty-eight percent of applicants for fall 2016 were from outside California, and the 2016 entering class included 49 percent minorities and 57 percent women.

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Santa Clara Law is on the  campus  of Santa Clara University, which has often been voted one of the most beautiful colleges in the nation. Towering palm trees, spacious lawns, and vibrant flower gardens create a peaceful and beautiful place to learn.

In 2018, Santa Clara Law celebrated an historic move to an all-new home—the Howard S. and Alida S.  Charney Hall of Law , a state-of-the-art center for innovation and collaboration that will expand our impact in Silicon Valley and beyond. This inspiring, eco-friendly building—a modern interpretation of the Santa Clara University’s signature mission-style architecture—has flexible learning spaces, sophisticated classroom technology, and a library that is a nexus for digital information facilitated by a staff that specializes in supporting student and faculty research. Given the inherent connections among law, technology, business, ethics, and the social sciences, Charney Hall’s new campus location is ideal—right next door to the world-class Leavey School of Business and near both the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Political Science Department. Charney Hall is part of a vibrant professional district that encourages interdisciplinary curricular and programmatic collaboration and innovation, as well as opportunities for greater engagement with the local legal and business communities.

As members of the larger Santa Clara University community, law students have access to the full array of the larger campus facilities, including computer labs, the Cowell Student Health Center, the Benson Memorial Center, and the Pat Malley Fitness Center, which includes a well-equipped weight room, fitness classes, an outdoor pool, locker rooms with steam rooms and saunas, and courts for basketball, volleyball, and tennis.

Santa Clara Law offers a robust and flexible program, with day and evening classes, full- and part-time scheduling options , diversity outreach programs, and an  academic  and bar success program.  More than 200 courses are available, and 86 semester units are required to graduate. The degrees offered are JD, JD/MBA, JD/MSIS, LLM in Intellectual Property Law, LLM in International and Comparative Law, and LLM in United States Law for non-US attorneys (with optional specializations in intellectual property, international and comparative law, and human rights law). An academic orientation introduces first-year students to the study of law. The first-year curriculum is prescribed.

The  JD/MBA  and the  JD/MSIS  combined-degree programs  are a powerful union of Santa Clara’s nationally recognized School of Law and the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Students earn both degrees in a full-time program lasting three and one-half to four years.

International Law Certificate

Santa Clara Law’s  International Law program  sponsors summer law study and externship programs in more locations than any other American law school.  Students can choose from programs in Munich, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; Oxford, England; Singapore; Shanghai, China; The Hague, Netherlands; San Jose, Costa Rica; Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria; and Sydney, Australia. Classes may be combined with externships at international law firms, UN organizations, governmental or nongovernmental organizations, and corporations. The thoughtfully structured externships and classes abroad prepare students for practice in a global economy. Completing a summer abroad helps students earn a Certificate in International Law.

High Tech Law or Privacy Law Certificate

With its central Silicon Valley location, Santa Clara Law is one of the top places in the country to study intellectual property, privacy, and  high tech law , and our program is world renowned.  Students learn from full-time faculty members with expertise in every aspect of intellectual property (IP) and high tech law, as well as adjunct faculty members who work at leading Silicon Valley firms and companies. Students have unparalleled internship opportunities with well-known companies and law firms working on the highest profile cutting-edge technologies. The IP and high tech curriculum is one of the largest in the country, and students can create a highly personalized course of study. Students can obtain a certificate in High Tech Law or Privacy Law, and can earn a combined JD/LLM in Intellectual Property Law on an accelerated basis.

Public Interest and Social Justice Law Certificate

The Santa Clara Law community has a true commitment to  social justice , and many students choose to serve the poor and the marginalized while in law school through the school’s many clinics (see Clinical Programs below). Students also serve while they learn through programs offered by the Center for Social Justice and Public Service, which emphasizes the use of law and the legal system to improve the lives of marginalized, subordinated, or underrepresented clients and causes. Faculty members, many of whom do extensive pro bono work themselves, teach cutting-edge, social justice-oriented classes that provide theoretical, practical, and skills training. Students can earn a Public Interest and Social Justice Law Certificate and may select a special emphasis in one of seven areas: consumer law, criminal justice, critical race jurisprudence, environmental law, international environmental law, health law, or immigration and refugee law.

Clinical Programs and Externships

Santa Clara Law students can participate in a wide variety of  clinical and field experiences  that help develop their practical skills while in law school.  The Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center offers clinics in immigration, workers’ rights, and consumer law. Other clinics include the International Human Rights Clinic, the Entrepreneurs’ Law Clinic, and the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara Law, where students help exonerate the wrongfully convicted through work with prisoners, crime and evidence labs, law enforcement, defense attorneys, and prosecutors. In these clinics, students work on real cases under the guidance of attorney mentors. Working with faculty, students can also tailor externship experiences to their interest, enabling them to work in a variety of settings including law firms, in-house corporate counsels, government agencies, courts (including the California Supreme Court or the US District Court), or public interest organizations.

Student Activities

Santa Clara Law has many student groups, including an extensive array of identity  group organizations  and national and international moot court teams.  The school’s quarterly,  Santa Clara Law Review , is published by a student editorial board. The  Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal  provides a practical resource for the high tech industry and legal community. The  Santa Clara Journal of International Law  is a respected, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Through the Student Bar Association (SBA) and student-faculty committees, students participate in the decision processes of the school. The SBA’s community service committee organizes numerous volunteer events throughout the year. Law students also participate in intramural sports through the Malley Fitness Center at Santa Clara University.

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Main article content, faculty members perceptions of open access publishing in ghana, albert buondau.

Monica Mensah Danquah

Perpetua dadzie.

This study sought to determine the rate of acceptance and use of open access scholarly resources by faculty members in Ghana. The study population was 443 faculty members. Using a survey design, a questionnaire was employed as the data collection instrument. Data collected were analyses using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS v20) and thematic analysis for qualitative data. Key findings were that although the faculty members showed positive attitudes towards open access publishing and had intentions to publish in open access journals and use open access content, they perceived that open access journals increase predatory journal publication, have poor impact factors, with murky peer review process. Recommendations based on study findings were thus directed towards the development of policies that promote open access publication, equipping libraries within the institutions with IT resources to develop and sustain open access journals, and increasing education on OAJs among others. 

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Faculty receive 2024-25 WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes Awards

Thirty-two University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for 2024-25. The awardees span the four research divisions on campus: arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences.

“These awards recognize excellence in faculty research, academics, and outreach at various stages of their scholarly careers and provide an opportunity for continued development of their research programs,” says Cynthia Czajkowski, interim vice chancellor for research. “I look forward to seeing the results of their imaginative use of these funds.”

The awards are possible due to the research efforts of UW–Madison faculty and staff. Technology that arises from these efforts is licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the income from successful licenses is returned to the OVCR, where it’s used to fund research activities and awards throughout the divisions on campus.

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Eight faculty have been awarded WARF Named Professorships, which come with $100,000 and honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Award recipients choose the names associated with their professorships.

H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

Thirteen faculty have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.

KELLETT MID-CAREER AWARDS

Eleven faculty have been honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards to support those promoted to tenured positions seven to 20 years ago and who have made key research contributions in their fields. The award, named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, provides support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers and comes with $75,000 to be spent over five years.

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Community-Engaged Learning for Health Equity Education Collection: Submissions Now Open

Service-learning, which combines community service with academic methods, is a valuable pedagogy in medical education, offering students opportunities to understand community needs, social determinants of health, and the patient-physician relationship. To provide medical and health sciences educators with educational innovations that aim to promote community-engaged scholarship, MedEdPortal and the AAMC Center for Health Justice are seeking submissions for a new collection of resources on community-engaged learning, an approach that involves collaborative efforts that delve more deeply into power structures, root causes of health disparities, and action to reverse health inequalities to promote better outcomes for patients and communities.

Submissions are now open for complete teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with medical trainees or practitioners. Each submission is reviewed by editorial staff and external peer reviewers using a standardized review instrument grounded in the tenets of educational scholarship. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

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The faculty is home to nationally and internationally recognised research centres and units exploring a wide range of educational and social science research. Click on the name of the research centre, unit or group you are interested in to find out more about their research activities.

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Marae History Project

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