The purpose of the Midwest Campus Compact STEM Consortium is to provide training and technical assistance to sub-grantees as they implement multi-institution service-learning projects to increase student engagement, participation, and persistence in STEM disciplines while helping to address local community concerns about food, its production, and its distribution; and about nutrition and related health issues. Funded service-learning projects will bring together multiple post-secondary institutions to collectively address local/regional food related issues such as, but not limited to, food security, sustainable agriculture, nutrition education, and childhood obesity/diabetes. Sub-grantees will gain expertise in designing, implementing, and assessing course that use complex and compelling social issues to deliver STEM instruction building a cohort of experienced service-learning practitioners in each participating state.

Funding for the Midwest Campus Compact STEM Consortium is provided by the Corporation for National and Community Service, through the Learn and Serve America program.

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