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“It was really amazing going into the community and performing an art form that they probably haven't seen before,” second-year voice major Ella Vaugn said, “Teachers would tell us that they've never seen their students so engaged.”

A philosophy practicum bridges the distance between teaching and learning, showing that the two are symbiotic and inextricable. The course also facilitates outreach in the Oberlin community.

American Agricultures, an environmental studies course, exposes students to the history of black agrarianism in Cleveland.

Oberlin’s history of embodying leadership and empathy in times of political and social turmoil makes the title of the upcoming traveling exhibit, Courage and Compassion, especially fitting.

Gamelan is not very well known to the general public. A class offered in the conservatory’s new community engagement division partnered with an after-school program in nearby Lorain to teach a new form of music to underserved kids.

Through the Spanish in the Elementary School (SITES) program, Oberlin students can design and practice their own pedagogy while engaging with children in the community.

Oberlin Associate Professor of Biology Taylor Allen and Peter Ogbuji, executive director of the Harrison Cultural Community Center, cosponsored a camp to make science more creative and accessible to children in Lorain County.

Poised in front of an audience in Wright Lecture Hall, Assistant Professor Robert Owen sprinkles sand on a vibrating plate. But instead of presenting to his usual audience of college students, 51 children fill the seats.

Creative writing teaching residency makes poetry accessible for local middle school students.

The aspiring educator credits several winter-term teaching experiences as well as her peers with helping prepare her for this fellowship.