Take steps toward your career while earning college credit.
Be more than a volunteer.
Service-learning features career-focused experiences with real organizations. So you build your future, while doing something good for the community. Win-win.
The difference we make. Together.
8,271
Up from 7,891 last academic year, this is the number of Missouri State students and
Greenwood Laboratory School* students who participated in service-learning in 2024
- 2025.
Greenwood Laboratory School high school students contributed a total of 900 hours
of service during the 2024 Walkable Springfield Restortation Project. Their service
was valued at $28,989.
86,003
HOURS
Service-learning students served over 85,000 hours combined in the 2024 - 2025 academic
year to communities locally, nationally, and globally.
$2,770,157
VALUE
This is the total value of service provided by service-learning students in the 2024
- 2025 academic year.
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Our efforts are driven by a focus on community engagement.
"Field-based" education designed by teachers. The definition of high-impact.
The office of Citizenship and Service-Learning (CASL) supports the development, implementation, the evaluation of sustainable service-learning courses and encourages community-engaged learning across the curricula at Missouri State University as a high-impact practice (HIP) to enhance student learning, student success and retention, develop civic engagement, support the university’s mission in public affairs, and foster collaboration with communities – locally, nationally, and globally. Community-engaged learning is a form of experiential education characterized by student participation in an organized community-based activity that:
- Connects to specific learning outcomes
- Meets identified community needs
- Provides structured time for student reflection and connection of the community-based experience to learning
As defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU), service-learning, as an “instructional strategy”, is a form of experiential “field-based” education that provides students “direct experience with issues they are studying in the curriculum. A key element in these programs is the opportunity students have to both apply what they are learning in real-world setting and reflect in a classroom setting on their service experiences…”. These programs model the idea that giving something back to the community is an important college outcome, and that working with community partners is good preparation for citizenship, work, and life.
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