Marquette University Service Learning - Mission, Goals, and Objectives

Mission, Goals, and Objectives The mission of the Service Learning Program is as follows:

Following in the Jesuit tradition of faithful service, the Service Learnng Program at Marquette University facilitates student academic learning through meaningful service experiences, which encourage and enable Marquette's faculty and students to positively impact the community. The Service Learning Program seeks to bring campus and community together in partnership to share resources, meet real community needs, and help to educate women and men to become the change agents of tomorrow.

Chief among program goals are the following:

To enhance students' learning by enabling them to practice skills and test classroom knowledge through related service experiences in the local community;
To enable students to provide needed assistance to community agencies and to the people served by the agencies;
To assist faculty in their role as facilitators of service learning and in their engagement with the community.

To meet the above goals, the following objectives have been set:

To recruit faculty who are willing to include a service option in one or more of their courses;
To assist faculty in designing the service learning portion of their classes;
To inform students about service learning as it applies to their specific classes;
To secure relevant community placement sites for each service learning course;
To assist students as they enroll in service learning, choose placements, and become established in their agencies;
To prepare students to engage in community service projects and activities;
To monitor students' service and report results to faculty;
To disseminate information about service learning outside the immediate campus and community.