Benefits to Faculty
Back to Benefits to ParticipantsInstructors benefit from service-learning through:
- An enhanced teaching repertoire
- Increased contact with students
- New perspectives on learning and increased understanding of how learning occurs
- Increased awareness of community issues and their relationship to instructors' academic interests
- Identification of current trends and issues that might inform research
- Potential for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Contribution to tenure and other review files