Service-learning is a classroom experience that utilizes
commmunity service, community-based research, or other civic
engagement activities along with regular reflection to meet course
goals and community needs.

Focus Areas

UMM’s Service Learning Program is centered around five focus areas. While service learning projects may fall outside these areas, they were chosen because they provide opportunities for long-term partnerships and relate to compelling community needs and goals in multiple disciplines. The five focus areas are:

• Youth Partnerships
  
• Social Responsibility
• Elder Partnerships
  
• Arts and Culture Opportunities, and
  
• Sustainable Living

Why Should I Take a Service Learning Class?

Studies have shown that students involved in service learning benefit in a variety of areas:

Service-Learning Goals For Students

• Increased commitment to civic engagement and improved skills and knowledge relevant to effection social change
• Increased understanding of human diversity and comfort interacting with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Improved Leadership skills, including communicating effectively in different settings.
• Improved critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Increased understanding of the connection between academic work and community needs.
  

Service-Learning Forms

• Purchase Order Request
  
• Mileage Reimbursement (one-time)
  
• Mileage Reimbursement (semester-long)
  
• UMM Vehicle Request
  

To view a photo archive from both past and continuing projects, click here

Other Programs Supporting Civic Engagement

• The Center for Small Towns
  
• The Community Service and Volunteerism Program
  
• The Faculty Center for Learning and Teaching, and
  
• Morris Area Community Education