LSC-CyFair Service Learning

I SERVE, I CARE.

How can Service Learning improve my college experience?

• Become involved with the collegiate and Houston communities
• Gain new skills and experiences
• Lead to future internship and career opportunities
• Demonstrates leadership, community involvement, scholarship, and skills which can be added to resumes, scholarship, transfer, and job applications
• Four year Colleges and Employers look for a Service Learning Designation on transcripts

Why should students participate in Service Learning Experiences?

• Provides hands-on learning experiences that tie students’ classroom knowledge in with serving their community
• Expands students’ learning environment and opportunities beyond the classroom
• Gives students new ways of leading and learning

What does Service Learning involve?

• Apply what you are learning in the classroom to working with the community
• Work with your professor to design or select a service project
• Getting to and from the service site
• Connecting with the Community
• Reflecting on the service work you are doing
• Earn a Service Learning designation on your transcript after 15 hours of Service Learning per semester

What types of Service Learning opportunities are there?

• Check out our past projects!
• On campus opportunities
• Service Learning in the Houston Community

Service Learning Experience

Service Learning Experience – Edwin Campos, Summer 2017

"Edwin Campos volunteered at the Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition (TWRC) Wildlife Center on Hammerly Boulevard as part of a Service Learning project in Professor Aurora Lugo's biology class for non-science majors." - Lone Star College-CyFair News

Learn more about Edwin’s experience in the Houston Chronicle.