The Center for Service Learning at Florida Southern College provides structure and supporting resources to facilitate academic service learning throughout the academic disciplines of the college. Florida Southern College’s commitment to educating citizen leaders, increasing awareness of and support of the scholarship of service within the campus community, and actively engaging students in their educational preparation translates into various opportunities for students to connect academic theories and principles to concrete service to the community.

Service learning is a pedagogical method of providing students with community-based experience that enhances the students’ academic knowledge and benefits the community partners. The service experience is integrated into the course’s readings, lectures, discussions, and writing assignments. Students are evaluated in terms of regular academic standards and not for the services provided. Benefits to the community partners may include direct service or applied research.

This site will direct students, faculty and community partners to resources further explaining the service learning opportunities that exist at Florida Southern College.