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Honors College Fellow class uses Wikipedia as tool to learn, help nonprofits

Posted on May 16, 2023
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Zachary McDowell, UIC assistant professor of communication.

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via UIC Today Article:

Zachary McDowell, UIC assistant professor of communication and Honors College Fellow, uses Wikipedia as tool to learn, help nonprofits.

As part of the class requirement, McDowell’s students had to create a Wikipedia page for a nonprofit organization that either didn’t have a page or only consisted of a sentence or two.

Over the last several years, McDowell’s students have built more than 45 Wikipedia articles featuring nonprofits like Love Fridge Chicago, Friends of the Chicago River, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and even SocialWorks, Chance the Rapper’s nonprofit.