Service Learning Benefits
Students:
- Provides students with documented experiences
- Enhances student’s resumes
- Promotes critical thinking
- Broadens horizons
- Improves communication
- Promotes ethical and moral development
- Improves social awareness
- Improves self-esteem
- Provides opportunity to apply classroom knowledge (active learning)
- Provides career exploration and improves occupational skills
- Develops citizenship skills
Faculty:
- Enhances and enriches teaching - innovative pedagogy
- Improved faculty/student interactions
- Improves faculty evaluations
- Limitless research/publication possibilities
- Work in faculty teams
- Access to SL Course Protocol as resource
- Make/improve connections with the community
- Campus, community, state, regional and/or national recognition
- Grants available
College:
- Improves student preparation for work and transfer to senior institutions
- Improves student satisfaction and retention
- Enriches the curriculum
- Monitors the relevance of academic material
- Meets the community needs Increases learning opportunities
- Improves linkage to the community
- Reorients educative process to meet human needs
- Meets Blinn's conception of educational roles
- Generates community support
Community:
- Increased human resources for problem solving
- Increased ability to hire good students
- Increased future citizenship support / commitment
- Augmented service delivery
