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Service
Learning
Mission The mission of the Service Learning Program is to provide faculty, staff, and students with organized and well-supported opportunities for learning through serving and, through service learning projects, to provide valuable service to the surrounding community.
USI as an Engaged Campus
History of significant community involvement
Serving community needs has always been part of the mission
Many campus groups and organizations involved in community
What we do: Support Student Learning
Ensure Community Partners obtain quality output from the class projects
Assist faculty in using these projects to build professional records and
advancement
USI Volunteer Services
Student clubs and organizations
Resident Halls Activities
• Continuing Education
• Organizational and Professional Development
• Center for Applied Research
• Historic Southern Indiana
• Historic New Harmony
USI Extended Services Division
Examples of Current USI Engagement
Benefits for Students:
Helps learn more deeply
Enriches the learning
experience
Teaches civic responsibility
Opportunity to address local issues
Learn to become aware,
reflective, and active
citizens
Benefits for Faculty:
Enhances Teaching
Promotes Professional Development
Enlarges Networks
Helps integrate teaching,
scholarship, and service
Benefits for Community:
Perceived needs met by
service learning projects
Needs Addressed
Referrals made
Connects community
organizations to potential employees
Benefits for Institution:
Helps students feel more
connected to campus
Helps with recruitment of
students
Helps with retention
Reduces the sense that we are in an ivory
tower
Service Learning is intended to advance student learning. Five specific learning outcomes have been developed, to advance students’
• Civic and democratic engagement
• Capacity for difference/change making
• Learning through disciplined reflection
• Comfort/skill in working with or in diverse groups or environments
• Sense of belonging to the USI Community
Learning Outcomes:
Types
of
Service
Learning
Service Learning at USI is a strong community based teaching pedagogy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and structured reflection to enrich the learning experience and teach civic responsibility. Several types of Service Learning are practiced on campus.
Academic Service Learning is a serious academic enterprise in which community projects are integrated into credit courses.
Curricular Service Learning is a process in which entire disciplines or Colleges participate in certain projects, not necessarily course-based.
Co-Curricular Service Learning promotes learning and opportunities for reflection around community projects not connected to credit courses. Many of these activities are student-led initiatives dedicated to service, community/civic engagement, and advocacy.
Academic Service Learning Academic Service Learning is a course-based credit bearing strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and structured reflection.
• Departments Offering Courses in Service Learning • Marketing
• Management
• Economics
• Communications
• Computer Information Systems
• Modern & Classical Languages
• Public Relations
• Psychology
• Advertising
• Radio & Television
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene
• Diagnostic Vascular Technology
• Gerontology
• Nursing
• Food & Nutrition
• Occupational Therapy
• Teacher Education
• Physical Education
• Mathematics
Academic Service Learning Projects
Students conducted an interactive workshop related to decision-
making and peer pressure at the local Boys and Girls Club at Fulton
Square.
Six teams of four students designed, planned and executed separate public relations Heroes
campaigns, both on- and off-campus, for the American Red Cross of the Evansville-Wabash
Valley Region.
Contact
Us At….
Anne Statham
Director of Service
Learning
812/ 465-1203
