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The Effects of Service-Learning on Retention

In a report of results of a study to the Northern New England Campus Compact, students who participated in service-learning courses scored significantly higher on all measures. The students reported higher community engagement, academic engagement, interpersonal engagement, academic challenge, and likelihood to remain at the university (retention) than students in courses that did not include service-learning. In addition, a mediation model showed that academic challenge and academic engagement were the elements of service-learning courses that most influenced students’ decision to stay at the university (retention).

»To read the full report, click here.

My own service-learning experience helped me to change my undergraduate major to social work. As a student worker with the program, I gained so many skills that helped me to be successful as a social worker and change agent after graduation. Now I help student workers develop these same skills and find the same passion for creating positive change that I have felt."

-Kim Jensen, Assistant Service-Learning Administrator, Marquette University

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