The University should expand and require service-learning courses

During the 2013-2014 school year, the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships conducted 64 academically-based community service courses, ranging from those that allowed students to assist in music education at local high schools to those that partnered with local hospitals studying asthma prevention programs.

In fall 2014, The University of Alabama’s Service Learning Pro website listed 22 different courses – certainly a respectable number. That said, UPenn is a school with slightly more than 10,000 undergraduate students, whereas The University of Alabama has recently broken the 30,000 mark. In general, students here simply have fewer choices when it comes to service-learning programs, which translates into lower participation overall. There are several reasons why the University should do more to expand these types of courses.

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