Service Learning
 

StudentsWelcome to the
Oakland Community College
Service Learning Program!

Here you’ll find all you need to become a Volunteer or to start a Service Project with your Class or Student Group! Please check out the Calendar section to find upcoming Service Events and volunteer opportunities!
 
What is Service Learning?
Service Learning is a way Students and Faculty can become engaged in the needs of the surrounding community. It can be done through Volunteerism or through Academic Service Projects. When connected to a course, students turn classroom learning into real-world experiences that they can take into the workforce as they become community leaders and responsible citizens.
Anyone can become a volunteer! Any course can integrate service learning!

More Service Learning Information
 

Put Into Perspective…

When a group of students cleans up trash along a local river, that is SERVICE.
When students study river water under a microscope in a lab, that is LEARNING.
When students remove trash and collect water samples, analyze what they found, share the results and offer suggestions for the neighborhood to reduce pollution, and then reflect on their experience, that is SERVICE LEARNING!

Service Learning is NOT:

  • An episodic volunteer program
  • An add-on to an existing school or college curriculum
  • Completing minimum service hours in order to graduate
  • Service assigned as a form of punishment
  • Only for young people, or people without families and jobs
  • One-sided: benefiting only students or only the community

For Students
Students! You can sign up online! Explore the volunteer opportunities database, check out scholarships and other opportunities for students, see what other students are doing, and get involved!
Go to the Student Volunteers Page!
 
For Faculty
Here you will find nearly everything you need incorporate a service component into your courses. We have sample syllabi, resources on reflection, and links to state and national service learning resources. We also have contact information for local community partner organizations that will welcome students as volunteers!
Go to the Faculty Resources Page!
 
For Community Organizations
The infusion of enthusiastic student volunteers can assist agencies to better serve their clients. Students who participate in service learning graduate with an increased sense of civic responsibility and develop citizenship skills that will only improve the quality of communities as they become future leaders and responsible citizens.
Go to the Community Partner Resources Page!
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