Benefits of Student Learning
Students
- Positive effect on interpersonal behaviors, ability to work with others, leadership
skills
- Positive effect on social responsibility and citizenship skill
- Enhance academic learning when compared to courses that are not integrated with service
learning
- Improves ability to apply what they have learned in the “real world”
- Stronger relationships with faculty than those not in service learning
- Improves satisfaction with college experience
- More likely to graduate
- Propensity to continue service and practice active citizenship after graduation
Faculty
- Satisfaction with enhanced quality of student learning
- Able to create connections with community
- Impacting communities and students
- Opportunity to develop scholarships related to community engagement
- Included in annual report for promotion and tenure
- Ability to demonstrate real world application to student learning
- Personal satisfaction in a “job well done”
- Contribute to the college’s standing
Community Partners
- Student participation provides services
- Enhanced organizational capacity building
- Exposing students to their goals possibly creating future serving opportunities
- Enhanced relationship with College