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Center for Service Learning
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6776
Fax: 910.775.4091
Email: service-learning @uncp.edu

Location: Sampson Building, Room 210
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Service-Learning refers to experiential learning within academic courses that is gained through structured reflection on community-based service.

In most courses, service-learning pedagogies are combined with more traditional modes of teaching and learning.  Essential components of service-learning include: learning and service which enhance one another, reciprocal partnership with the community, and meaningful, structured reflection.

At The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, we take pride in our mission to provide the “Personal Touch” when it comes to education.  Service-learning at UNCP is one way by which to provide a personal, “hands-on” approach to learning.

A growing number of UNC Pembroke faculty are joining together with community partners in order to engage students in community service,  allowing the application of what is being learned in class to real situations and contexts in the local community and beyond.

Pictured: Mary Locklear, Lumbee herbalist, being interviewed by students in Dr. Michael Spivey’s Cultural Anthropology class. As a service-learning project, students are applying their growing knowledge of Anthropological methods of research for an oral history book on Miss Mary’s life and herbal practices.

Updated: Monday, February 11, 2008