RVCC works with more than 200 social service agencies, government offices, non-profit businesses, educational institutions, museums, and various associations. The partnering relationship provides many service sites that create abundant educational opportunities for service- learning students. Computer students help set-up databases for large and small organizations. Criminal justice students work in courthouses, prosecutors' offices, police, and probation, departments. Education students assist teachers in the classroom at local schools.
Nursing students provide home health care to the elderly or disabled.
RVCC places more than 800 students annually in service- learning projects and has earned national recognition for its leadership efforts. Last year, the College was the recipient of the Service Learning Collaboration award from the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges. In The Renewal of America's Communities and American Democracy, for three achievements. The publication named RVCC as one of only two colleges or universities in the country for having the highest faculty involvement in service learning. Sarah Patten, an RVCC student majoring in Early Education and Communications, is working on promoting service learning through writing in her Interpersonal Communications course.