Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn

Service Learning is one of UWM's quiet success stories. Since its debut in 1999, the Institute for Service Learning and its faculty partners have offered thousands of students service experiences that enrich academics, build critical thinking skills and foster a sense of civic responsibility. Service learning connects students with the real world side of their coursework, bringing social and cultural issues into focus and providing significant benefits to the more than 200 local nonprofit organizations which host our students.

Each semester, UWM faculty offer students a service learning option in courses ranging from the humanities to the health sciences. Depending on the course, students commit to 10-15 hours of service at an area nonprofit or complete a service learning project. By melding academics with service, course work comes alive and students learn civic responsibility as they deepen their understanding of the community in which they live.  Whether you are student, faculty member or  community partner, we welcome your interest and invite you to learn more about Service Learning at UWM.