Hobbs Hall

The Center of Service Learning and Leadership

What is Service Learning?

If you are looking for an opportunity to grow as a leader, and to impact the community around you, then you need to take a look at Hobbs Hall.  The students of Hobbs Hall are living and working together to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of people in our community.

Service Learning provides a way that students can use their minds, talents, passions, etc., to effect change in meaningful ways – both in the community and in themselves.

The goals of the Center for Service Learning and Leadership are:

·         To fulfill unmet needs in the community through direct service which is meaningful and necessary.

·         To develop an environment of collegial participation among students, faculty, and the community.

·         To increase the civic and citizenship skills of students.

·         To expose students to societal inadequacies and injustices and empower students to remedy them.

·         To provide cross-cultural experiences for students.

·         To give students greater responsibility for their learning.

·         To become involved!

Service Learning

Service counts towards building goal of 2000 hours IF:

1. You are a Hobbs Hall resident or other resident in a Hobbs-sponsored event,

2. You have actively participated in a service project , AND

3. You have actively participated in some type of reflective exercise related to the project.  Examples of reflection include:

• Group discussion about the project

• Discussion about the effect you had on the specific project and/or the effect the project had on you

• Participating in a writing exercise in which you examine how you have been affected through service

Hobbs Hall Residents volunteering at the YMCA Lancaster Family Triathlon