Service Learning integrates academic study with meaningful community service and advocates volunteerism toward meaningful social causes. Faculty who make service a part of the curriculum and community organizations who provide a learning outlet, allow students opportunities to develop real-world skills while contributing to their communities.
Benefits Include:
- Linking classroom instruction to real-world situations
- Building your resume
- Getting valuable, work related experience
- Helping others in your community
- Making a difference in someone's life
- Enhancing your marketability to a future employer, or future educational experience
- Networking with colleagues, community partners, and possible future employers
- Applying subject matter in the classroom in fresh, relevant ways to the work world Improving interpersonal skills
- Developing job skills and reinforcing career choices
- Completing applications for job shadowing, mentoring, internships, externships, or employment opportunities
- Gaining valuable references
- Establishing mentoring connections
- Testing various career pathways
- Filling gaps in your resume history
- Making a career shift
- Meeting new people and having new experiences
- Gaining life long learning experiences
- Getting a societal perspective on real world problems
