Service Learning

Definition

Service Learning combines community service and civic engagement with academic study, allowing individuals to apply their knowledge and skills learned in the classroom while volunteering their time and service to the community. Service Learning enriches learning, teaches civic responsibility, fosters a sense of caring for others, strengthens communities, and promotes reflective and critical thinking. 

Mission

Service Learning at OSUIT is to provide & promote opportunities to students in an environment outside the classroom in order to prepare and sustain a diverse student body as competitive members of a world-class workforce and contributing members of society. 

Service Learning Survey 

Please fill out this short web form and tell us how you have been contributing to society by volunteer work, service learning, or academic service! 

Are you volunteering on campus?

This form is intended to be filed by those individuals wanting to volunteer on campus, but who are not current members of the OSUIT student or employee body. 

Use the table below to help determine if the community service or volunteering you have done is considered Service Learning or Academic Service.  

What is Service Learning?	What is Academic Service?
Service or volunteering for your own reasons	Service or volunteering for extra credit or bonus points
Service or volunteering without benefit, credit, or pay	Service or volunteering for class credit
Service or volunteering outside of class	Service or volunteering for benefit to club/organization
Service or volunteering outside of club/organization	Service or volunteering for community service hours