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Johnson, Jessica Grazulis, & Joshua K. White, Aurora University  \nAbstract  \nOne of the purposes of higher education is to promote citizenship and social justice. This article explores the way Aurora University is helping students to discover what matters through the impact of Sleep Out on the Quad, which is an event that uses multiple pedagogies to impact student learning of homelessness. It serves as a call to action for one ofour nation’s most important issues.  \nKeywords: experiential education, servant leadership, student learning, simulation  \nIntroduction  \nIn the United States, approximately one in every seven Americans lives in poverty. While statistically this percentage rate has remained fairly constant (11-15%) over the past 30 years, the actual number of American’s living in poverty has increased 35% during this same time period. 1 As the number of people living in poverty in both the United States and abroad continues to rise, higher education has a moral imperative to educate students using multiple pedagogies about the issues surrounding poverty and homelessness. Best practices seek to transform students who will go into the world and serve others. This transformation often happens when students are engaged inside the classroom and also immersed in co-curricular experiences. Aurora University has been addressing issues of poverty through both academic and co-curricular programs by instilling a sense of social responsibility within students. One of their latest programmatic successes has been the Sleep Out on the Quad, which is developed, implemented, and evaluated by a group of undergraduate students in the Leadership Education and Development (L.E.A.D.) program.2 Over the past three years, approximately 400 students, faculty, and staff have attended an evening of educational sessions related to poverty and homelessness culminating in an actual Sleep Out on the Quad during a frigid evening in order to simulate homelessness. The authors note that this brief simulation is not designed to be a comprehensive experience of what it is like to be  \n1. Charles Hokayem and Misty Heggeness,“Living in Near Poverty in the United States: 1966-2012,” United States Census Bureau, Washington, D.C., accessed July 28, 2014, [http://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p60-](http://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p60-)[ ](http://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p60-)[248.pdf.](248.pdf.)  \n2. The L.E.A.D. program at Aurora University seeks to develop the leadership knowledge and skills of students. It combines principles from both Social Change and Servant Models of Leadership. [http://www.aurora.edu/](http://www.aurora.edu/)[ ](http://www.aurora.edu/)[student-life/activities/lead.html\\#axzz386waVfOi.](student-life/activities/lead.html#axzz386waVfOi.)  \nhomeless. Rather it seeks to plant the seed of social justice through experienced dissonance in order to make participants agents of change.3 The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the programmatic goals for Sleep Out on the Quad as well as highlight qualitative outcomes.  \nThe Role of Colleges and Universities  \nOne of the most important outcomes for students in higher education is the development of leadership skills,4 and these skills should exist for the purpose of serving others.5 However,“one of the greatest failings ofthe American education system…is that young people can graduate from a university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.” 6 These sentiments gave rise to the development ofthe L.E.A.D. program at Aurora University and the subsequent development of Sleep Out on the Quad, which is an event designed to increase awareness of homelessness.  \nTo begin with, the L.E.A.D. program was developed in 2007 by a university-wide taskforce in response to students seeking further leadership knowledge and skills in conjunction with their co","cbCaigKGH76hKz3l","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigKGH76hKz3l","pdf",332105,"English","# Introduction\n# The Role of Colleges and Universities\n# The L.E.A.D. Program and Its Leadership Models\n# Sleep Out on the Quad","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of Sleep Out on the Quad at Aurora University?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to increase awareness of homelessness and to plant the seed of social justice through experienced dissonance that encourages participants to become agents of change.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the L.E.A.D. program support students involved in Sleep Out on the Quad?\",\"answer\":\"The program combines Social Change and Servant Models of Leadership and develops leadership knowledge and skills through year-long tiers with workshops and service-oriented engagement.\"},{\"question\":\"What learning approach does the article associate with the event?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes experiential education, where students are immersed in co-curricular experiences and engage in simulation to deepen understanding beyond the classroom.\"}]","Sleep Out on the Quad - Experiential Education and Servant Based Leadership | PDF",1792089168,23]