Overview:
The Columbia Service-Learning Program (CSLP) aims to deepen and enhance
student learning, develop students' citizenship skills and values,
build partnerships between the campus and communities, and promote
the public good. Service and learning can be interdependent and mutually-reinforcing
goals.
CSLP
can play a vital role in supporting SEAS’s central academic
mission, promoting: deep learning, flexible expertise that
can be applied across situations, instill an increased sense
of purpose and community, and increase student performance,
commitment and retention. The program benefits an array of
stakeholders: students, community service organizations, alumni,
faculty, administrators, industry, accreditation bodies, educational
critics, policymakers, government, and foundations.
CSLP was implemented in pilot form in the Gateway Lab design
course in Spring 2003 with 11 community projects. Clear positive
outcomes were evidenced, and consequently the program expanded
coursewide beginning fall 2003 to involve some 20 community
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