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Student Co-Coordinators:
Co-Coordinators oversee and assist SSLs in their collaboration with professors.
Advisor:
Service-Learning Challenge
The Service-Learning Challenge (SLC) is a student-led movement at Allegheny College that brings students and faculty together to work toward integrating service-learning into course throughout the various disciplines. Service-Learning combines community service and academic learning with equal emphasis, while meeting a real community need. Each component enhances the other for the increased benefit of all involved.
In 1999, two students had an idea to get every Allegheny student involved in service through the course of the year. They soon realized that this was not a feasible idea and decided to start an organization in which students would help professors implement service-learning into their courses.
SLC Student Service Leaders (SSLs) are paired with professors to help with the planning and implementation of service-learning. SSLs have extensive experience with the local community, and therefore have a good grasp on community needs. This allows the students to be placed at service-learning sites where their service and learning will be optimized. The professor, on the other hand, offers expertise for the academic learning that takes place, and also creates the learning objectives for the course. The collaboration between SSL and professor, therefore, is ideal because it allows for each to bring his/her expertise to the equation. In the spring semesters of 2002 and 2003, SSLs were part of a class in which they learned about service-learning while they worked with a professor.
Courses recently partnered with the SLC:
