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Bentley Service Learning Center

Bentley College - MA, Massachusetts

Bentley is the only business school in the US with a cross-disciplinary service learning program and an extensive scholarship and wrok program at the undergraduate level. Components include:

    -City Year Serve-a-Thon, where all first-years are required to participate in a service learning project .

    -The Scholarship Program, where first-years with a demonstrated interest in community service are eligible for this program which awards $5,000 annually to students who wish to enhance their community awareness, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

    -BankBoston/Bentley College Forum, an annual event which brings together business executives, community representatives, students, faculty and staff to explore the relationship between business and community.

    -America Reads, where students are involved in literacy partnerships with local schools, libraries, and youth groups.

Website: http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/bslc/index.html

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The service-learning program at NC State is a source of pride for the university, and an important facet of NC State's mission of extension for both our students and the population of the state of North Carolina. Thank you for all of the good work of Campus Compact."

-Alton J. Banks, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, North Carolina State University