Land Grant Universities should help constituents to understand the meaning of place, to find their place in society and the environment, and to leave our combined place better then when we made our first discovery. One s place might be found in nature, social work, business or in any discipline and should become interrelated when members form world views. Learning and teaching cannot be restricted to classroom walls and laboratories. Place is found in human and ecological communities. Service Learning can be used for students to integrate experiential education with objectives of course content using real-world issues.
Students apply multiple contexts in life with interdisciplinary considerations to solve problems.
When successful, individuals, agencies and organizations working with human and environmental communities are helped. Students learn more through active engagement with real issues, and faculty benefit because their course objectives were met and they helped the community in the tradition of Land Grant Institutions.