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Welcome to Service Learning!
Each semester, the UWM Institute for Service
Learning collaborates with participating faculty members to
offer nearly 1,000 students a chance to enrich their studies
through organized community service. 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.
We are proud to have developed strong relationships
with more than 205 community partners in the greater Milwaukee
area. Our partners benefit from the creativity and energy
our students bring to their agencies and the services they
provide. In return, community partners help connect students
to the needs and opportunities of the city and challenge them
to become agents of change for a better world.
Whether tutoring young children, mentoring teens,
assisting older adults or working in agencies that grapple
with such complex issues as hunger, homelessness or environmental
preservation, the opportunities for real-world experience
are as diverse as they are rewarding. Those experiences are
made even more meaningful through classroom discussion and
reflection.
UWM faculty offer students a service learning
option in more than 20 courses representing disciplines ranging
from the humanities to health sciences. Depending on the course,
students are required to do between 10-15 hours of service
per semester or complete a service learning project.
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