Student Benefits
• Positive impact on students’ academic learning
• Improves students’ ability to apply what they have learned in “the real world”
• Positive impact on academic outcomes such as demonstrated complexity of understanding, problem analysis, problem-solving, critical thinking, and cognitive development
• Improved ability to understand complexity and ambiguity
Learning Outcomes
Student Benefits
• Greater sense of personal efficacy, personal identity, spiritual growth and moral development
• Greater interpersonal development, particularly the ability to work well with others, and build skills
• Reduced stereotypes and greater inter-cultural understanding
• Improved social responsibility.
• Greater involvement in community service after graduation
Personal & Social
Student Benefits
• Connections with professionals and community members for learning and career opportunities
• Greater academic learning, leadership skills, and personal efficacy can lead to greater opportunity
• Stronger relationships with faculty members.
• Greater satisfaction with the university
• Improved graduation rates
Career Development
Staff Benefits
• Satisfaction with the quality of student learning
• New avenues for research and publication via new relationships between faculty and community
• Networking opportunities with engaged faculty in other disciplines or institutions
• A stronger commitment to one’s research
Personal Outcomes
University Benefits
• Improved institutional commitment to the curriculum
• Improved student retention
• Enhanced community relations amongst themselves
• Establishment of lasting networks with other institutional/ organization with a similar vision of Service to humanity
• Improved brand of the institution
Institutional Enrichment
Community Benefits
• Satisfaction with student participation
• Valuable human resources needed to achieve community goals
• New energy and perspectives applied to community work
• Enhanced community-university relations
• Improved quality of life