Program Mission,
Goals, & Objectives
The mission of the Service Learning Program is as
follows:
"The Service Learning Program, born of the Jesuit
commitment to faithful service, works cooperatively with faculty,
students, and community agencies to provide diverse ways for
Marquette students to perform meaningful service to their
communities while engaging in some form of academic reflection or
study related to the service." (Grace Mazza Urbanski: 1994-95
Staff Manager)
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.