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What the Key Center can do with you...

If you are interested in service learning, the Key Center would like to work with you. We are available to consult with you about undertaking best practices in service learning, developing Service Learning Designated Courses, working with community partners, creating projects, integrating service learning into your curriculum, or anything else you may need. We also offer faculty workshops on Service Learning throughout the year.

What is service learning?

Service Learning is a broad and varied approach to education. Sometimes faculty think of service learning as students volunteering for a few hours somewhere. That is one possibility, especially for students just getting their feet wet. However, service learning can go much farther -- into research projects on issues and problems, creative or artistic endeavors that tell the unheard stories of people and communities, efforts to market or publicize good works that aren't receiving the attention they deserve (and we're just scratching the surface).

Service Learning Designated Courses

• Click here to learn more about the Service Learning Designated Courses being offered at UNC Asheville
• Click here for an Application for Creation of a Service Learning Designated Course

Community Engaged Scholars

• Click here to learn more about the honorary graduation designation for students, Community Engaged Scholars.

Community Organizations You Can Work With

• Click here to read more about potential community organizations you can partner with for Service Learning.

Service Opportunities

• Click here to read about current service needs in our community.

Defining Service Learning

• Click here to find out more about service learning

More information on Service Learning:

• Learn and Serve America's historical timeline of Service Learning.
• Campus Compact information on  models of service learning.
• High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter by George D. Kuh, (Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2008).

Models of Service Learning and other programs:

Campus Compact is an organization that works with faculty and chief academic officers focuses on linking community-based work with course content across disciplines. Campus Compact was an early leader in the service learning movement, launching the Integrating Service with Academic Study (ISAS) project in 1989.

• Campus Compact Faculty Resource page.

Resources and Web Links

• Articles and web links on service learning and related topics