Integrity, compassion, and service are the core values of service-learning. Collin College’s award winning Service-Learning program engages students in valuable experiential learning through community service opportunities.
Important Links and Resources:
Service Learning Student Documentation Packet
Service Learning Resources
List of Fall 2009 Community Partners
Service Learning and Volunteer Project Ideas
Service Learning and Volunteer Highlight Opportunities
If you are a student and have COMPLETED a semester project, please click here to complete the Service Learning Project SURVEY.
What is Service-Learning?
Service Learning is service-based experiential application of knowledge in real-world situations in which the service benefits the community. Service-learning projects are a component of a credit-bearing class, aligned with specific academic learning objectives, and associated with a grade. This unique method of education connects a student’s personal, career, and civic interests to learning in the classroom.
Service-learning is education in action (John Glenn).
Benefits of Service-Learning
- Enhances academic comprehension
- Strengthens character
- Develops effective servant leaders through holistic leadership development
- Nurtures commitment to the community
- Expands career knowledge and opportunity
- Fosters reciprocal relationships between the student, faculty, the educational institution and the community partner
- Applies critical thinking and problem-solving skills to community needs
- Utilizes personal reflection in the learning process
- Has been empirically shown to increase student grades and retention
Collin College’s Service-Learning program received the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges Collaboration Award, the nation’s highest honor for service-learning programs in community colleges. National Campus Compact has recognized Collin College’s Service-Learning program as a model of exemplary civic engagement practices.The Service-Learning program also received the national Bellwether Award in collaboration with the Learning Communities program.
To document your academic service hours, download the Service Learning Student Documentation Packet, complete and submit to your professor or to the Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement.
For more information on service-learning, you may go to the following links.
National Service Learning Clearinghouse
http://www.servicelearning.org
Campus Compact
http://www.compact.org
Texas Campus Compact
http://www.texascampuscompact.org
