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Service Learning

Do you want to make a difference as a student? At South Piedmont, you can!
Our Service Learning Program combines community service with academic activities and reflective practice. Students grow academically by applying their course learning in “the real world.”

Service Learning Benefits

Service Learning is a great way to grow as a person, as a student, and as a member of the community. 

Leadership

You’ll gain leadership skills through your Service Learning participation. 

Portfolio

Your Service Learning experiences are excellent additions to your portfolio or resume, helping you to stand out to future transfer institutions and employers. 

Network

Service Learning projects are a great way to expand your personal and professional networks. 

Credits

You can earn college credits for your Service Learning activities if they are completed as part of a course.  

Growth

Service Learning is a great way to learn about yourself and grow academically, socially, emotionally, and professionally. 

Community Service

You can earn community service hours for your Service Learning work.

Learn While Making a Difference

Service Learning provides students with the opportunity to use the concepts that they learn in class to make a difference in the real world. Perhaps you’re learning about the environment, so you volunteer to participate in a community clean-up event where you see the effects of pollution firsthand. You might be learning about domestic abuse, so you volunteer to work at an abuse recovery center, where you learn about the effects of domestic abuse on real-life families. The options are endless.

South Piedmont’s Service Learning program will help to connect you with relevant community service opportunities that will bring your in-class learning to life.

We offer Service Learning courses that integrate Service Learning as a portion of the student experience.

Students may also participate in Service Learning without earning course credits, if they choose. Each semester, the School of Arts and Sciences offers a campus-wide volunteer project. Students can also identify projects within the community that are important to them.

To get started, contact Director of Academic Enrichment Programs Tammy Frailly at tfrailly@spcc.edu.

Tammy Frailly sitting on the patio at South Piedmont's OCH campus.

Be Empowered Through Service Learning

It’s empowering for students to participate in Service Learning and to begin learning early on that they can make a meaningful difference in this world. Through Service Learning you not only apply what you’re learning in class, you learn about your own power to create positive change.

Tammy Frailly, Director of Academic Enrichment Programs