Below are a few of the proven benefits from participating in Service Learning courses:
- Increases student's ability to retain course information
- Increases student's understanding of course material
- Reduces stereotypes, facilitates racial and cultural understanding
- Increases analytical skills
- Fosters a deeper bond between professors and students
- Positive effect on spiritual growth
- Positive effect on moral development
- Students participating in SL are more likely to graduate and become involved in community service after college
source:http://www.compact.org/resources/downloads/aag.pdf
"Great care and concern are to be shown in receiving the poor ...because in them more particularly is Christ received; our very awe of the rich guarentees them special respect." - RB 53:15