SERVICE LEARNING & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

The Office of Service Learning and Community Engagement is dedicated to providing students with individual attention and support while also allowing them to grow and explore new challenges. The office supports the college’s academic service-learning program and offers a diverse range of co-curricular service opportunities, workshops, and presentations for students to participate in throughout the academic year to learn about their community and connect with the mission of Hilbert College.

SERVICE LEARNING POLICY

In keeping with the mission, values, and tradition of Hilbert College students will complete at least one service-learning experience as part of an academic course during their Hilbert College career in order to be eligible to graduate. Most students will complete service learning in BLU 201, a Hilbert Blueprint course. Service-learning requirements are unique to each class. In some classes, the entire class may work together on one single project that benefits the community and meets a community priority. In other classes, students may be provided the opportunity to complete a service-learning activity by selecting an organization or project from a list of pre-approved community partners and activities. Students who successfully complete the service learning assignment for their class, including all required service agreements, time sheets, reflection activities, and evaluation, will receive a designation on their records indicating that service learning has been completed.

All students, regardless of their transfer status, are expected to complete Hilbert’s service-learning requirement. Students who have completed service-learning projects at another institution may be exempt if that service-learning course appears on their transfer transcript. If service learning is an assignment required of all students in a particular course, every student must complete the service-learning activities in accordance with the course syllabus, including those students who have otherwise been exempted from Hilbert’s service-learning requirement or those who have previously fulfilled their service-learning requirement through service-learning activities in another course.