VSLC Learning Outcomes
Student Learning Outcomes
As a result of participating in service and VSLC programs, students will:
- Develop civic leadership skills and learn how they can use those skills to contribute to the common good
- Explore facets of their identity related to diversity, privilege, race, class and gender and reflect on how those identities impact their perspectives
- Learn about social inequalities and structural injustices and how to respond in creative and productive ways
- Build relationships in the local community in order to build professional networks and advance career skills
Public Service Learning Outcomes
As a result of participating in VSLC programs, faculty and staff will:
- Incorporate service-learning pedagogy into their courses and assess its impact on student learning
- Build civic learning outcomes into co-curricular and extracurricular programs
- Create both transactional (short-term; project-based) and transformational (long-term; sustained) partnerships with local community agencies
- Develop collaborative relationships with other faculty and staff interested in community-based learning in order build a campus-wide network of community engagement
