Service Learning Faculty -
Shelley Wigley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Communication
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Service learning
emerges as a powerful approach that not only enhances academic knowledge but also nurtures personal growth, fosters community engagement, and cultivates essential life skills
Empowering the Future with Service Learning
Our Mission for Transformative Education
Service learning expands student perspectives, transforming their lives and empowering them to make a positive difference in their communities. The CSL works with faculty to incorporate a service learning component into their coursework, whereby students work in reciprocity with a nonprofit agency on a project related to what they're learning in the classroom. This experience benefits both the student and the community and prepares compassionate leaders committed to creating a more just and equitable world.
Faculty Insights: Service Learning Unveiled
Uncover the transformative power of Service Learning through the testimonials of faculty members.
Service Learning can actually be a step toward an internship or a similar kind of practice. It helps students develop skills, conduct outreach, and use tools that they’ve been developing.
If you're getting any kind of value out of it [Faculty Fellows Program] at all, you know whether you're learning or even thinking about what you can do to turn parts of your course into a service learning course.
Service learning is important because we do want to try out best to expose students to real partners who have real needs.
The magic and power of education at that moment was something that I always wanted to recreate. It was so rewarding to be a part of that transformation and process.
Starr Robinson
Discovering purpose through communication technology, senior Starr Robinson harnesses her skills to make a difference by creating a website for a new organization that aids wrongly convicted individuals. To her, the challenge of satisfying her client weighs greater than any other obligation. Meet the aspiring visionary paving the way for meaningful change.
“My jaw dropped when the founder told us her story,” Robinson says. “I want to make sure this is pretty much perfect. We have to give it our all.” (Courtesy of UTA Magazine)
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