Snelling Connection Newsletter of the Hancock/Hamline University Collaboration
—Angela Froemming, editor In This Issue: Collaboration’s Impact
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Restructuring Earth Day
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From the Desk of...
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On the Issues
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Springtime Artwork
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Volume 12, Issue 3
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Hamline students get as much as they give
Photo by Paula Cortez
I would like to thank all those involved in this year’s Snelling Connection. Further, I would like to extend my gratitude to all those who are part of the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration. The experiences I have had working as a tutor for the past four years have been invaluable to my college education. I feel privileged to have been a part of such a wonderful collaboration; I am confident it will continue to grow and do great work for many years to come.
First-year Hamline student Amrit Misra plays a game with his 5th-grade buddy. Misra, like many other Hamline students involved in the Collaboration, reports that working at Hancock has influenced his future goals.
experience of the Hancock By Angela Froemming students, the Hancock stuEditor or many Hancock dents have an equally imporchildren, the oppor- tant role in the lives of the tunity to work with Hamline students. a Hamline tutor or buddy The Snelling Connection deis the highlight of their day. signed a survey and adminisOver 80 Hamline students tered it to Hamline students spend some time at Hancock involved with the Hancockeach week, making Hancock Hamline Collaboration eiElementary Hamline’s largest ther through tutoring or the wo r k - s t u d y Approximately 79 percent of H a n d - i n Hand proemployer and the survey’s respondents were gram. Of volunteer site. Students of able to describe how working those who with the Collaboration has responded, all academic pursuits and specifically influenced their lives. 71 percent worked excareer ambitions work in Hancock’s clusively as tutors while at classrooms. And just as the Hancock; 29 percent did both Hamline tutors play a signifi- tutoring and Hand-in-Hand. cant role in the educational Students with career goals ranging from elementary
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In a survey designed and administered by the Snelling Connection, Hamline students from a wide range of academic pursuits reported that working with the Collaboration has made an impact on their futures.
education to pediatrics commented that working with the Collaboration has been an influential experience that they anticipate will impact their future. Approximately 79 percent of the survey’s respondents were able to describe how working with the Collaboration has specifically influenced their lives. Heather Albrecht, a fourthyear Hamline student and also president of Hand-inHand, said that working with the Collaboration has been “extremely influential” in shaping her post-graduation plans and goals. When Albrecht first began college, she intended to pursue a degree in library science. However, IMPACT continued on page 2 Spring 2009