About Lipscomb
The SALT Project is Lipscomb’s service-learning initiative that allows students to
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Connect meaningful service, relevant academic work and critical reflection
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Apply knowledge and skills to specific service projects
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Grow and develop academically, spiritually and civically
Service-learning opportunities through The SALT Project are collaborative and mutually beneficial projects where community partners, along with Lipscomb faculty and students work together.
Service-learning is distinctly different from volunteerism. In service-learning, the service experience is the vehicle for learning, and students are required to crucially reflect on their experience and connect it to a wider academic, civic or personal/spiritual context. Click here to learn more about the differences between service-learning and volunteerism.
Service-learning could not take place without our Community Partners! We know that service-learning results in increased capacity at community agencies and in enhanced services to clients. The SALT Project welcomes your service-learning project ideas and suggestions.
Please use the electronic form below to submit a proposal for a service-learning project. To submit additional service-learning opportunities, click here for an abbreviated form.
Service-Learning Suggestion
Criteria for Service-Learning Opportunities:
- The organization may be nonprofit, public or private in structure; the service-learning project must meet community, environmental or social needs.
- The service-learning work must have a clear connection to the student’s (service-learner’s) academic program or learning objectives.
- As a part of the service-learning experience, students should have some contact with the agency’s clients or constituent groups.
- Students will be expected to communicate with the service site, but agency staff must ensure that the site is ready to receive service-learners and provide the support needed for students to effectively contribute to the work of the agency.
- Before beginning the project, the agency will provide the service-learner with appropriate information, orientation or training. This may take the form of:
- Agency literature/background information
- A formal training session
- A presentation by agency staff.
- The agency contact person, volunteer manager or supervisor will communicate with service-learners and faculty to ensure that the all partners are having a meaningful and beneficial experience.
- Under agency risk management procedures, service-learners should be considered agency volunteers.
- The agency should be able to support students as they connect their service experience with their learning goals and objectives.
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