BENEFITS TO STUDENTS

Service-learning…

• Makes learning more useful and relevant.
• Promotes active learning.
• Extends the boundaries of the classroom to metropolitan Detroit.
• Heightens awareness of community needs.
• Provides real-life application of what students are learning in the classroom.
• Provides an opportunity for students to learn about and give back to the community.
• Enhances sensitivity to diversity.
• Strengthens critical thinking skills and communication skills.
• Promotes personal and social growth.
• Stimulates intellectual and leadership development.
• Fosters a sense of civic responsibility.
• Allows for integration and synthesis of knowledge.
• Helps prepare students for the world of work.
• Allows students to serve as involved citizens in their communities.
• Facilitates the development of a lifelong commitment to service.

Service-Learning and the Four Pillars of Honors

BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY

Student service…

• Helps meet unmet community needs.
• Exposes and teaches communities about emerging generations of students.
• Helps establish access and connections to other resources available at Wayne State University and through Wayne State University.
• Helps breakdown and dispel myths and stereotypes that the community has about students and Wayne State University.
• Adds youth and enthusiasm to a service program or project.
• Provides an opportunity for a community to shape students' values and to prepare students for community involvement after college.

BENEFITS TO WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

Service-learning…

• Supplements the educational experience being provided by the University.
• Allows WSU to give back to the community through its students, faculty, and staff.
• Provides good public relations.
• Provides an opportunity for the community to view the University as a resource.
• Helps establish connections for other University programs.