At Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University (FranU), classroom learning is only a part of the curriculum. What truly ...

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 ...

King’s College held a formal dedication for the new home for its Shoval Center for Community Engagement and Learning on ...

Students at the University of Nevada, Reno are constantly encouraged to step out from behind their books, computers and mobile devises and become a part of something bigger. Whether it's joining one ...

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 ...

Last weekend I was on #elemchat with my colleagues near and far on Twitter and the topic of discussion was service learning. Service learning can be defined in many ways but it is primarily when ...

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 ...

Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall's Disabilities in Literature class focuses on learning outside the classroom during their service learning trip to the Lowell Association for the Blind. Watch the video ...