Service Learning
Helping others.
It's all about service.
Service-learning provides students the opportunity to apply instruction and skills through helping others within the community. If you or your organization has an idea on a service-learning project, we would like to know about it.
Types of service-learning projects.
Examples of direct and indirect service-learning projects include
- Tutoring other students and adults at all levels
- Conducting art/music/dance lessons for youth
- Giving presentations on violence and drug prevention or other topics
- Helping at a homeless shelter
- Planning and conducting public forums on topics of interest to the community
- Restoring historic structures and/or building low-income housing
- Removing invasive plants and restoring ecosystems in preserve areas for public use
- Fabricating bicycle racks for downtown business districts
- Serving on nonprofit boards and other organizations
- Participating in clean-up projects in the community
Examples of some of the things that Edison State students have done in our community
- Accounting students offer free tax preparation in conjunction with Partners of Hope
- Accounting students calculated votes for the Piqua Community Foundation Pitch Piqua event
- Nursing students provide covid/flu vaccine clinics on campus
- Students participated in Habitat for History at Caesar Creek Pioneer Village, to assist in preserving and restoring the historical village for community education
- Students helped to repurpose newspaper disbursement racks, by converting them into “little libraries” for placement in the community
Have an idea or project? Please email the Office of Work-Based Learning.