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Service Learning
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Service
Learning
Report
January 2019
Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
-- The Corporation for National and Community Service
What
is it?
Benefits
for students:
Why bother?
- Increased retention of course material
- Brings academic knowledge to life
- Influences persistence
- Improves leadership
- Transferable job skills
Benefits for faculty
Faculty
- Foster better relationships with students
- Increased student participation
- More lively class discussions
- Opportunities for research & publication
Benefits to college / community
College / Community
- Develops well-rounded individuals individuals who work well in society
- High impact educational practice
- Good for accreditation
Donnelly faculty survey
Faculty say ...
- 28.57% include SL in at least one course
- Barriers:
- Not knowing how to incorporate SL in courses (62.5%)
- Not knowing how to connect SL to their discipline (25%)
- 87.5% interested in learning more about incorporating SL in coursework
Donnelly student survey
Students say ...
"SL has improved my motivation to continue my college education"
- 79% - definitely true
- 21% - true
"I would be interested in taking more courses that include SL."
- 47% - definitely interested
- 53% - interested
"[I liked] how we stayed locally rather than going out to more privileged students."
Quote
"I can make a difference."
Quote
Dr. Julia Vargas Rockhurst University
How?
Rockhurst has earned the prestigious Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement
Center for Service Learning -- helping provide SL at Rockhurst for more than a decade. Dr. Vargas is the director.