|
|
 |
Benefits of Participating in Community Involvement and Service-Learning Projects
- Provides you with valuable experiences in your academic or future career field
- Gives you a better understanding of the topics you're learning about in the classroom
- Helps you to examine your values, attitudes, and beliefs about the world
- Allows you to utilize your untapped skills
- Develops your leadership skills and strengthens less developed competencies
- Helps you to integrate your personal and professional goals
- Helps you to demonstrate to potential employers and academic institutions a diversity of interests
- Allows you to fulfill requirements for service hours in a course or major
- Allows you to fulfill requirements to be admitted into some academic programs
- Gives you a better understanding of community issues
- Allows you to act on their beliefs about social change/social justice
- Provides you with a greater understanding of economic, political,
and cultural structures in society and how these structure effect and
impact individual lives, families, and communities at large
- Breaks down your sense of isolation by providing you with connections to the larger community
- Teaches you more about yourself and your ability to take on new roles
- Sharpens your creative problem-solving abilities and collaboration skills
- Gives you an opportunity to develop a network of contacts and support people across diverse communities
|
|
|
|
|
|
