Service Learning Assistants
CSL supported 141 Service Learning Course Assistants last year, totaling $213,430 in scholarships. If you would like more information about this scholarship, see the link below!
In 2007-08 the Center for Service & Learning awarded $140,000 in grants to IUPUI departments and schools for work related to civic engagement.
Contact Mary Price for more information on events and other resources sponsored by the Office of Service Learning.
International service learning is a course-based, credit-bearing educational experience in which students are supported in:
a) participating in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs in a location outside the United States, and
b) reflecting on this service activity to gain a deeper understanding of course content, the specific community with which they are working, cross-cultural issues, and an enhanced sense of their own global relationships and responsibilities.
International service learning brings together two powerful educational experiences – study abroad and service learning. The IUPUI Offices of Service Learning and Study Abroad have identified international service learning (ISL) as an important means of helping students connect with their local host community when studying abroad.
Through ISL, students step beyond their role as a student, tourist, or foreigner and begin to shape a role for themselves as a neighbor, partner, and friend. Through these deeper connections with their host community, students will learn more about their host country, their discipline, and themselves. A more detailed description of international service learning can be found in these powerpoint slides.
Ongoing international service-learning projects at IUPUI include:
Summer program for Dental students |
Service learning program, dental students only |
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Summer service learning program |
Service learning program |
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Service learning Spring Break for Dental students |
Service learning program |
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Summer service learning program exploring modern Greece |
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Spring Break Service Learning program for Dentistry students in Guatemala |
Service learning program |
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Service-learning Spring Break for Dental students |
Service learning program, Program Suspended Pending Safety Review |
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Immersion Spanish language study with onsite exposure to primary and community health care in a developing country |
Service learning program, Medical students only |
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Culture and Service in Jamaica |
Service learning program |
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Alternative Spring Break for Dental, Medicine, and Nursing Students |
Service learning program |
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Summer language immersion & service learning |
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If you are an experienced service-learning faculty member and would like to learn how to combine service learning with study abroad, or if you are an experienced study abroad faculty member and would like to learn how to integrate a service-learning component, please contact:
To learn more about service learning contact the Center on Service and Learning.
To learn more about study abroad contact the IUPUI Study Abroad Office.
IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
801 West Michigan Street | Business/SPEA Building Room BS2010 | Indianapolis, IN 46202 | Phone: 317-278-2662 | Fax: 317-278-7683
