The Service Learning Program (SLP) works closely with the Community Action Program (CAP) and other offices at DU to provide quality community service and service-learning opportunities for students, faculty and staff. Current programming highlights include:
nearly ten documented service-learning courses in various departments involving over 300 students per year; five new faculty recipients of SLP Faculty Fellows mini-grants (which assist faculty in the development of SL courses); continued involvement by the SLP in the DU/Northwestside Denver Partnership (this is done in conjunction with the DU Graduate Education Department, Denver Public Schools and several grassroots organization in Northwest Denver); a webpage for the Service Learning Program (see www.du.edu/slp); a 60% increase in off-campus work-study opportunities at local nonprofits; a growing Service Learning Corps (a part-time AmeriCorps program where students commit to serve a minimum of 450 hours of community service and reflect on that experience in a group, each academic year); three opportunities for International service-learning (Projects Mexico, Bosnia and Costa Rica); a newly-established Service Learning Advisory Committee (to ensure accountability and greater community involvement); and a volunteer clearinghouse of over 100 local non-profit organizations and plans to integrate Service Learning information and community service opportunities into the new SOAR (Student Orientation and Registration).
Contact person: Katie Symons, Coordinator for Service-Learning Programs, ksymons {at} du(.)edu
