The Whitworth Center for Service-Learning engages students and faculty in
strategic service that enriches academic coursework while allowing participants to do
justice, love mercy and serve humbly alongside community partners.
Service-learning classes create tangible experiences in our city
and world that equip students in both mind and heart to honor God,
follow Christ and serve humanity.
The center also provides co-curricular opportunities
for students who wish to engage in service-based activities.
 In
brief, the goals of our programs are to enhance students' Whitworth education, to help students discern their
vocational interests, to provide students with the skills and resources
necessary to excel in their vocational endeavors, and to instill
in students a lifelong ethic of service that will remain with them in any field or industry they enter after college.
Community-Engagement Opportunities Sponsored
by the Center for Service-Learning:
- Academic
Service-Learning:
Service-learning is a teaching approach integrating academic instruction
with community service that engages students in civic responsibility,
critical and creative thinking, and structured reflection. From
discipline-based service-learning to service-based internships,
students are engaged both locally and internationally in an experiential
form of learning that not only enhances what is learned in the
classroom, but provides a direct benefit to the communities being
served.
Service-Learning Courses
- Bonner
Leader Program:
The Bonner Leader Program is a service-based work-study program
sponsored by the Bonner Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). It is designed
for students who exhibit high financial need and a strong commitment
to community service/civic engagement. This program is designed
to heighten students' overall education by affording them the
opportunity to engage in sustained community service work throughout
their undergraduate education. The Bonner motto, "Access
to Education, Opportunity to Serve," captures the foundation's purpose
of supporting students in college to use their energy, talent,
and leadership to engage in local communities.
- SERVE
(Students Eager to Respond to Volunteer Endeavors):
The SERVE program is designed to empower and enable Whitworth
students to engage with the Spokane community and to serve humanity.
The primary goal of the ASWU SERVE coordinator is to act as an
advocate of service and social justice on campus by informing
students about social-justice issues, coordinating opportunities
to address those issues, and networking between individuals and
groups who are interested (e.g., dorms, service clubs, individuals).
Whitworth's annual Community-Building Day event is coordinated by this program.
- Students
in Service:
Students in Service is an AmeriCorps-funded program
sponsored by Washington Campus Compact. The purpose of Students
in Service is to meet critical community needs by engaging
higher-education students in service, and by fostering within
them an ethic of civic responsibility.
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