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Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions
Service-Learning
The Center for Service-Learning in the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions (RHCHP) at Regis University serves as a resource for faculty and students in connecting academic course objectives with community based learning opportunities. Service-Learning is integrated into the core curriculum of most of our academic programs allowing faculty to use this pedagogical tool to enhance effective teaching and student learning. In RHCHP, Service-Learning takes place in the following forms.
- Direct service
- Education and consciousness raising
- Advocacy
- Community based learning and research
Since its establishment in 1996, the Center for Service-Learning continues to cultivate in students an understanding of their personal responsibilities and an appreciation for the diversity of our global community.
Through Service-Learning, students leave behind the world of books and laboratories, and enter communities grappling with urban poverty, racism, hunger, inadequate housing, famine, minimal or no access to health care. Amidst these grim injustices students also experience the resilience of community, the wealth of cultures and traditions, and unsung leaders who continue to uphold their communities.
Our goal is that the students who participate will not only gain an understanding of their ability to impact their community and make a recognizable difference, but also of their responsibility to use their gifts and talents to contribute to a more just world. We encourage students to reflect on how they respond to the needs of others, the impact this has on thought and the subsequent action needed to change existing conditions.
“Students, in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose, and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and oppressed.”
- Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.