Welcome to Service Learning at MWCC

Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. As noted by the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges it combines community service with academic instruction to focus on critical and reflective thinking, and civic responsibility. It involves students in organized community services that address specific local needs, developing their academic skills, a sense of civic responsibility and a commitment to the community.

Service learning at MWCC offers students the opportunity to gain a comprehension of social problems and how to engage in social change. This is accomplished by providing them with a real world experience and an occasion to assist the community in meeting local needs. Finally, by requiring a reflection paper the faculty member can provide a method whereby students are better able to make a connection between classroom learning and a sense of civic responsibility. Faculty interested in offering service learning in their courses should visit the teaching and learning website at http://www.ctlmwcc.com/index.php?id=SLForm. On the website there is a guide for faculty, information for agencies as well as all of the forms students need. For further information please contact Robin Duncan at extension 591.