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Service Learning Program Mission:
The Warren Wilson College Service-Learning Program provides encouragement, information, opportunities, and education that increase student involvement in community service. These activities connect "thinking with doing," address social issues both locally and globally, and provide an opportunity for us all to learn ways of changing the basic structure of our world.
Completing the Triad
In addition to completing their work and academics, students at Warren Wilson College work hard to serve the community. Each year, students complete roughly 20,000 verified service hours, serving over 200 different agencies all over the world. Last year, students served from Artspace Charter School in Swannanoa to GIMAT Volunteer Network in Ghana and everywhere in between.
The Service Learning Crew and its supervisors are responsible for coordinating a variety of service projects so that students may continue to effectively serve the community. Service projects that we offer may last one hour, one day, one week, or even one year; it depends on the student to decide what kind of commitment they will make to the organizations that they serve. Please visit the Service Projects page for more information about weekly, Saturday, and fall/spring break service opportunities.
Okeefenokee Volunteers take a break at Jimbo's
Academic Service-Learning
An ongoing goal of the Service-Learning Program is for students to incorporate service into their everyday life, rather than just doing service every now and then. It is our vision that if a student is serving his or her community on a regular basis, then the service becomes charged with meaning and purpose for both those doing and those receiving the service. In an attempt reach this goal, Service-Learning has combined with Academics to try to bring service to the classroom (or more often, to bring the classroom to the service). For more information, go to Academic Service-Learning