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Service Learning Center

Mission Statement:

 

The Menlo-Atherton Service-Learning Center (SLC) is commited to providing students with accessible, engaging service opportunities that build leadership, empathy, and real-world skills. The SLC aims to connect students with diverse community needs, encourage collaboration across cultures, and foster a lifelong commitment to service. By empowering students to take initiative and make meaningful contributions, The SLC strives to create a positive and lasting impact both locally and globally.

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About M-A's Service Learning Center:

 
The Case for Community Engagement
Students...
  • are more likely to understand and critically understand course content (Tannebaum, 2008).
  • social skills are enhanced (Bailis and Melchior, 2002).
  • sense of identity is improved as are peer relations (Kelshaw, 2009).
  • feel more confident in their ability to identify issues, work with others, organize, take action and build a commitment to participation over the long term (Bailis and Melchior, 2002).
 
Learning Objectives
  • Civic Engagement: Recognize the importance of agency and life-long responsible citizenship in personal and professional activities in ways that benefit underserved populations.
  • Celebrate Diversity: Embody our motto of “strength in diversity” by looking beyond your own perspective and understand the way others see the world. Appreciate the knowledge, wisdom, assets and skills that individuals in these communities possess.
Developed in partnership with the Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service: haas.stanford.edu and Santa Clara University Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education: scu.edu/ic.