The goal of the Gary Horowitz Service Learning Program is to foster an environment of social responsibility and community engagement, and to prepare students for their roles as citizens of the ...

Service learning goes beyond volunteering or fundraising. It has explicit learning objectives and involves real-world skills and critical analysis. My colleague Heather Singmaster examines ways to ...

In 1974, Duke offered its first service-learning course. Since then, those individual service-learning courses have expanded into Duke Service-Learning, an initiative supporting 80 separate courses ...

Suining Ding, Ph.D., is a professor of Interior Design at Purdue Fort Wayne, and she is a lifetime scholar dedicated to curating service-learning experiences for herself, her students, and the broader ...

Six members of the Bates College community — four students, a psychology professor and a staffer for the chaplain’s office — were among a select group of individuals from campuses across the state to ...

Pamela Sari’s interest in service-learning first blossomed several years ago while pursuing her doctorate degree at Purdue. “When I was a graduate student, I took an American studies class called ...

The OSLCE welcomes an opportunity to meet one-on-one with community partners to discuss service-learning related issues/concerns, to better understand the service-learning program and your role as a ...

At the awards banquet, one student wore a union T-shirt under a loose button-down. He was not an honoree. The honorees -- students who had worked with children, animals, the elderly -- were volunteers ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

Relevant service with a community partner: the community placement is related to course content, and vice versa. Community-campus partnerships that are mutually beneficial. Students engage in ...

Students involved with service learning can reflect on their experiences to gain a deeper understanding of course content and a broader appreciation of the discipline, improving critical thinking ...

Service-learning is a pedagogical and andragogical approach in which student learning outcomes are realized concomitantly with meeting the needs of a community organization. Service-learning also ...