VU Home Page Service-Learning FAQ Sign up for the CFT listerv to receive notices about Center events . If you don't find the answer to your question here, be sure to check out Service-Learning Web Sites . Service-learning is a form of experiential learning where students and faculty collaborate with communities to address problems and issues, simultaneously gaining knowledge and skills and advancing personal development. There is an equal emphasis on helping communities and providing valid learning experience to students. Students learn new knowledge and skills that contribute to their education.
Students have the opportunity to reflect critically upon their experiences.
The service provided meets a need identified by the community to be served. Those receiving the service have significant involvement and control over the activities engaged in by students and faculty. Simultaneously, service is enhanced through the application of the new analysis, fresh perspectives and intellectual curiosity that academic learning provides. Service programs and initiatives are improved as each participant gains deeper and more innovative knowledge of the problems they address. Pedagogy National studies validate the claims that service-learning improves academic achievement across a wide variety of disciplines.