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High Point University values service learning as a way to use our liberal arts foundation to promote a more just and sustainable society. The Service Learning Program engages students in the practices of good citizens. It encourages community-based research, active problem-solving, life skills, and a growth mindset that fosters creativity and social innovation.
Service Learning Courses fulfill General Education requirements, including Experiential Learning, and can be found throughout majors and minors.
Service Learning Courses fulfill General Education requirements, including Experiential Learning, and can be found throughout majors and minors.
Mission
The mission of the Service Learning Program at High Point University is to engage students in experiential and interdisciplinary learning that promotes their understanding of responsible civic leadership and their commitment to it.
Program Overview
Service Learning connects the knowledge and skills students develop in the classroom with practical application in our community. It pushes students to engage professionals, listen to residents, and collaborate on projects that improve life in the city of High Point for everyone.
High Point University offers about 30 service learning courses each year, engaging about 500 students in projects that align with the learning outcomes of their classes. All students serve at least 25 hours during the semester.
Featured SL Courses
Strategic Communication Campaigns
places students in partnership with a local non-profit agency to create a turn-key marketing campaign. Students work directly with the non-profit to learn about needs of the individuals that agency serves. The students then use their knowledge to develop a marketing campaign that will be most beneficial to the agency’s target audience.
Advanced Spanish Conversation
partners with the YWCA of High Point’s Latino Family Center to work with Latinx high school students. HPU students help them prepare their essays, resumes and applications for college. Through this mentoring, students gain essential Spanish conversation skills, and in turn, they help young people in the Latinx community realize their potential.
Unique to Honors students,
the Service Learning Program offers a series of HRN 1200 courses, like Co-Opting the White Paper, Serving the Social Interest, and Approaches to the Justice System, that immerse first-year Honors students in community-based research projects that build their research capacity and benefit the local community with data to improve their programs.