How Everyone Benefits from Service-Learning
The students will:
- Display a better sense of civic engagement and social responsibility
- Develop personal, professional, and academic skills
- Apply classroom learning to real world situations
- Explore academic and career options
- Be effectively engaged in the process of reflection on their service experience and its connection to the course
- Have an increased capacity to meet needs because of the enhanced participation of Canisius students
- Gain a core of well-informed students for future community service
- Experience improved community relations through increased involvement in the community
- Gain a better understanding of community needs
- Enrich the curriculum and learning opportunitites for students