The Service Learning Program is an educational program that is designed to offer students a chance to learn from the experiences of working with others in the community. The program provides students with the opportunity to extend their education beyond the classroom walls and into the working community so that they may enhance their ability and shape the society in which they live.

The goals of the program are rooted by the School's Mission Statement and the belief that community participation, when combined with reflection, supplies a rich tapestry of social and intellectual experiences that can give meaning and purpose to classroom learning. While using the community as an arena for reflection and action, students are challenged with learning hands-on about relationships between individuals and their communities.

By helping students make connections between learning and living, growing and caring, this type of experience-based program encourages them to question, analyze, interpret, and most importantly, act on the social conditions that pervade their lives. Coupled with the knowledge that they make a difference in the lives of others, any academic material will seem more important, for it has a powerful connection to life and to the things that make life meaningful.