Academic Service Learning

The UW-Superior Center for Academic Service Learning is the place on campus to find resources and information on community partnerships at UW-Superior.

Additionally, the AS-L initiative aims to make UW-Superior a regional leader in academic service learning, thus providing a distinctively public quality to UW-Superior's liberal arts mission.

http://www.uwsuper.edu/casl/

casl@uwsuper.edu

Phone: 715-394-8518

What it is...

• is a pedagogy
• enhances students understanding of the course learning goals
• is a form of experiential education
• meets community-identified needs
• allows students to apply what they are learning in class in the community and learn while they are serving
• focuses equally on learning and service
• is reciprocal because it benefits both the student and the service recipient
• helps build partnerships between colleges and community-based organizations

What it isn't...

• internships, clinical's, or field studies which focus on learning rather than service
• volunteerism which focuses on service and the service recipient but not on students and learning
• free or convenient labor
• work for pay
• an "add-on"
• a stand-alone, one-time project that does not relate to the course learning goals