Center for Service, Work, And Learning - Welcome Augsburg Faculty!
Experiential Learning Resources
Work, and Learning are committed to working closely with students, faculty, and the community to provide off-campus opportunities for students that will enrich and expand their learning in the classroom and also to help students make good career decisions. The Center was founded on principles of experiential education and promotes the integration of theory and practice. We believe students will be better prepared for lifelong community and civic engagement -- and meaningful careers -- when they combine structured off-campus community service, internships, and work experiences wth their Augsburg education.
We can visit with individual faculty or departments to give an overview of CSWL and explain how we can assist you. Faculty are encouraged to visit our office in Anderson Hall (lower level) anytime.
Below is a list of areas where we work with faculty to support them in their experiential learning efforts:
Community Service and Civic Engagement
- Assists faculty to develop courses that have an embedded service-learning component
- Develops appropriate campus-community partnerships for service sites to meet the goals of a course
- Provides resources and ideas for service and community based Engaging Minneapolis and Augsburg Experiences
- Provides faculty training and assessment strategies related to service-learning
- Coordinates Campus-Community civic engagement efforts
- Coordinates faculty-student city service projects for first year student orientation
- Develops co-curricular community service opportunities for students
- Coordinates AugsburgReads paid off-campus work-study tutoring programs
- Coordinates Community Service Scholars Program
For more information about community service and civic engagement opportunities for your students, contact , 612-330-1775.
Internships
- Provides support to faculty supervising student internships for academic credit
- Provides individual advising for students in all majors related to internships for credit or not for credit
- Assists students with internship academic guidelines, policies, and registration process
- Assist students with writing drafts of internship learning agreements
- Provides faculty with resources on Good Practices of Experiential Education
- Provides advising for the Jr/Sr. year Augsburg Experience options and opportunities
- Offers a non-credit transcript notation for internship and work experiences related to student's major (can fulfill Augsburg Experience)
- Develops and coordinates listings of paid and unpaid internship opportunities for all majors
- Coordinates off-campus work-study service internships (students eligible for work-study can use their work study grants to get paid for their internships in approved non-profit sites)
- Coordinates the Lilly Vocation Internship Program
For more information about internship opportunities for your students, contact , 612-330-1474. Also, visit the internships section of the CSWL web site.
Career Services
- Provides professional career counseling, coaching and vocation planning
- Provides interest, skill, & personality assessments (MBTI, Strong, 16PF personality interpretation) for
individual students or classes - Assists faculty who are interested in learning more about career-related topics and employment trends
- Conducts classroom career related presentations and general workshops on campus
- Provides an on-line resource library on career fields and graduate schools
- Provides resume writing, interviewing, job search strategies for individual students, classes, student organizations
- Maintains web based internship and part-time, summer and full-time career job listings
- Prepares students for MN Private College Job & Internship Fair and Education Job Fair
- Plans and promotes fairs and employer seminars for specific career areas
- Coordinates employer recruitment and employer classroom presentations
- Facilitates the Lilly Vocation Quest retreat
For more information about career services for your students, contact , 612-330-1167.
Our Goal for Students
The Center for Service, Work, and Learning provides students with a wide range of resources and support to help students:
- BECOME MORE SELF-AWARE of their talents, interests, skills, and values
- EXPERIENCE hands-on community-based learning
- EXPLORE career possibilities
- DEVELOP PLANS around vocation, career choices, community and civic involvement
- GAIN SKILLS for professional job searches and/or graduate school applications
