What is Service-Learning?

Service-Learning is a teaching strategy that combines meaningful service to the community with academic instruction and develops:

• critical thinking
• employability skills
• expertise in various subjects
• civic responsibility

The Program

SFCC's Service-Learning Program does the following for SFCC students:

• Ensures the availability of service-learning opportunities for all SFCC students.
• Provides training and support to students, faculty, staff and community participants.
• Participates in service-learning partnerships with community organizations, employers and governmental organizations.
• Helps students develop transferable employability skills.
• Arranges for students to obtain up to six regular or honors credits for their service-learning experiences.

The Benefits

Service-Learning can provide the following benefits to students:

• making curriculum relevant to student's daily lives
• building a sense of community responsibility
• encouraging multicultural awareness
• developing problem-solving skills
• building career competencies

Many of the activities of the Service-Learning Program have been supported by the Corporation for National Service - Learn and Serve America: Higher Education in the past.

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