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Center for Service Learning
The Center for Service Learning provides the framework and methods to link service with the curriculum and to make service an integral part of students’ education so they are prepared to be lifelong learners, responsible community members and productive citizens. Nassau Community College developed the Center for Service Learning to systematically involve and support students in educational important public service experiences.
What is Service-Learning
Service-Learning is the blending of both service and learning goals and experiences that are enriched by each other and greater together than separate. It is a teaching method and educational experience that helps students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service experiences that provide structured time for reflections, while fostering academic learning, a sense of caring and civic responsibility.
Three Service-Learning Roles
- Student
- Faculty & Staff
- Community
Dean’s Message
Evangeline Manjares
NCC’s Service-Learning program has great impacts on the community, the college and especially the students. We want more students and faculty involved in Service-Learning. Service Learning is an important teaching and learning method that helps to build and strengthen communities while bringing the curriculum to life.
For more information, please call Dr. Evangeline Manjares, Dean, Center for Service Learning,
516.572.9775, or Evangeline.Manjares@ncc.edu
Service Learning Benefits
For Students
- Enriched learning
- Documented experience
- Skill development
- Transferable credit
- Improved self esteem
- Critical thinking skills
- Job contacts
- Making a difference
- Broader horizons
- Improved health, vitality
- Application of classroom knowledge
- Civic literacy and skills
For the College
- Improved public service delivery
- Broadened conception of educational role
- Increased learning opportunities
- Check relevance of learning
- Improved motivational base of instruction and learning
- Improved linkages to community
- Reorients education process to meet human needs
- Improved community college relations
- Improved student satisfaction and retention
- Improved student preparation for work and transfer to senior institutions
For the Community
- Augmented service delivery
- Increased human resources for problem solving
- Better career selection choices for students
- Increased access to college resources
- Improved college-community relations
- Increased ability to hire good students
- More contributions to meet human needs
- Increased future citizen support/commitment
- Expanded roles for student supervisors
Resources and Links
www.compact.org
www.servicelearning.org
www.learnandserve.gov
