Tailored to meet individual student’s unique educational goals, service-learning provides opportunities for direct hands-on service to the community. Learning opportunities can be formal or informal and require students to reflect on activities and their impact.



Service-Learning is the deliberate linkage of community service to academic study so that students, faculty and staff extend the teaching, research, and service mission of the University into the community. It also promotes a sense of cooperation between the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa community. If you are interested in hosting a student who serves and actively reflects upon that service and are selected as a service site, you should be prepared to work directly with the faculty members responsible for teaching service-learning courses to provide them verification of completed tasks and performance evaluations.