Service-Learning

A learning partnership in the community

A member of the 2007 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

Matching student learning experiences and career goals with community needs – that’s what BCC’s Service-Learning program is all about. Students work with a faculty member to create a service project or activity within a BCC course. The goal is to address real community needs and use that activity to earn academic credit. Service-Learning gives students the chance to help others, develop marketable, résumé-building skills, and become more informed citizens.

Students in Service-Learning at BCC have tutored students in area elementary, middle, and high schools; helped clean up local waterways; worked at shelters for the homeless or victims of domestic violence, designed websites and other products for non-profit organizations, and translated important documents into other languages. There are countless ways to help area residents build better lives while learning beneficial skills for the student’s future.

If you believe that education is more than taking courses, consider Service-Learning. You can change our community…and yourself…for the better.

Where do I start?

We have information for students, faculty and our community partners right here on the web.

What is the next step?

No matter what your interest, contact Dr. Mary Zahm, Director of Civic Engagement, by e-mail at mary.zahm@bristolcc.edu, by FAX at 508.730.3283, or by phone at 508.678.2811, ext. 2579 for more information.

You can get help to think creatively about your goals and to map out ways to use Service-Learning to achieve them.