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Augsburg Now: Service-learning
An
Overview of community service-learning at Augsburg
- More
than 30 courses each year include a service-learning component.
- All
300+ freshmen spend a half day during orientation on service projects while
learning about the city.
- Over
200 students each year tutor children and adults in schools, literacy centers,
and neighborhood organizations in Minneapolis.
- Six
Community Service Scholarships are offered each year to support student leaders
in service.
- $5,000
scholarships are available to AmeriCorps volunteers for full-time study. (Augsburg
is the only college in the nation to offer this.)
- A
full-time VISTA volunteer at Augsburg coordinates 30 work-study students who
work after school on the AmericaReads/America Counts program.
- A
Get Ready program staff person works with two schools to encourage low income
children, starting in fifth grade, to attend college.
- Community
Service Week each April celebrates and recognizes community service efforts
of Augsburg faculty, staff, students, and community partners.
- A
student-run Link program of more than 100 students organizes events on campus
for neighborhood children and service projects for students.
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Examples
of courses that include service-learning
"Diversity
out our front and back doors"
Augsburg's
Center for Service, Work, and Learning
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