Personal benefits

• Develop valuable leadership skills
• Enhance understanding of local and global issues
• Strengthen civic engagement
• Feel satisfaction of contributing to an important cause or community need
• Explore career or major options
• Gain marketable experience
• Learn more about yourself
• Extract greater meaning from your service through critical reflection
• Have fun!

Academic benefits

• Enrich your college experience
• Apply course material to work in the community
• Draw greater meaning from academic theory
• Enhance retention of course material
• Strengthen student learning
• Understand course content in context of larger, ‘real world’ concerns
• Learn about the complexities of social injustices and systemic problems
• Add value to academic path through participating in relevant community work
• Connect service work to learning experience through structured reflection activities
• Be more engaged in your course