Use of Community Service-Learning placements in a course can: 

• Give students a means of relating your course content to individuals, situations, and settings.
• Increase student engagement in the classroom and with course content.
• Increase student retention of the course material.
• Provide unique opportunities for assignments to relate content to observed experience.
• Give students the opportunity to learn what it means to give service and connect to a larger community.
• Facilitate greater awareness of the relevance and importance of their academic work to their life experience and career choice.
• Provide opportunities for a new role in teaching:  that of mentor, guide or facilitator of learning.
• Allow for collaboration and partnering with community organizations and potentially add new dimensions to research.
• Provide the opportunity to connect teaching and research with the Values, Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles and Academic Plan of the Institution.