What is Service-Learning?

At Purdue University, service-learning is an educational experience in which students: a) participate in an organized service activity that meets community-identified needs; b) use knowledge and skills directly related to a course, discipline and/or specific learning outcomes; and c) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content and/or learning outcomes and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility. Service-learning can be academic or co-curricular in nature and should not be confused with volunteerism, community service, philanthropy, or advocacy.

10 YEARS OF…

SERVICE-LEARNING BY THE NUMBERS

58,000
Journal downloads
18,000
students impacted by grants
400
community partners
113
service-learning fellows
186
Student Showcase Presentations
10
Journal Volumes
1,000
student grant projects
432
journal authors

INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT

SERVICE-LEARNING FELLOWS

Collaborating with communities

Laura Bittner & Barbara Young; Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

2024 STUDENT SHOWCASE

1st Place: Empowering youth as researchers through engaged scholarship

Tugce Karatas, Yiheng Zhou, Viviana Piceno, Amanda Case, & Nielsen Pereira; College of Education