Boston College offers opportunities for real-life, community-based learning experiences both at home and abroad. The VSLC offers programs and supports both student and faculty/staff initiatives that ...

The Service-Learning Center (S-LC) equips students, staff, and faculty to learn reflectively, serve lovingly, and engage wholeheartedly with our neighbors in the pursuit of justice, vibrancy, and ...

As a pregnant teenager and school dropout, Isis Martinez could have abandoned educational hope and purpose. Instead, she found a school designed to make education come alive for her. She learned ...

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 ...

After learning about nutrition in class, students have the opportunity to be instructed about how to craft nutritional advice for patients based upon common dietary challenges (e.g., too much sodium).

If you went to college a while back, the idea of service learning may be a new one. It was certainly not an option when yours truly was a student, and I am the poorer for it. In essence, service ...

Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...

Meeting employers’ need for experience — often identified in job postings — is the great catch-22 of starting any career. Many employers require experience for a job, but people cannot gain experience ...