Many U.S. universities are located in older, inner-city communities, where problems such as blighted buildings, abandoned spaces, and crime can make the areas unattractive to prospective students and ...

Columnist Peter Kennedy argues that a mandatory community service requirement for undergrads would help realize Benjamin Franklin’s vision for Penn.

Our office partners with faculty and community partners across disciplines to provide support for the development of designated service-learning courses. Our courses are designed for faculty and ...

Higher education is a battleground for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Universities around the world are increasingly promoting community-engagement pedagogies, service ...

Have you ever tried to organize a service-learning project for students and found yourself asking this basic question: Who is actually providing the service here—the students or the community ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In recent years, service learning has become an integral part of the ...

Several programs in the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences urge their students to use what they learn in the classroom to benefit off-campus communities. Service learning can also ...

Service learning (independently or in conjunction with massive community redevopments) appears to be establishing a solid footing for itself. Whether its long-term future is as a niche component of ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) includes Service Learning and Curricular Community-Engaged Learning. Both approaches are methods that faculty use to help students deepen their understanding of course ...

Service learning goes beyond volunteering or fundraising. It has explicit learning objectives and involves real-world skills and critical analysis. As service learning has taken root in schools and ...