{"id":120,"date":"2014-01-15T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:54:12","slug":"benefits-of-service-learning-for-community-partners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/community-engagement\/benefits-of-service-learning-for-community-partners","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Community-Based Learning for Community Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it&#8217;s the only thing that ever has. &#8211;\u00a0Margaret Mead<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community-Based\u00a0Learning provides an opportunity for a community to shape students&#8217; values and to prepare students for engaged citizenship, leadership and community participation after college, all essential things in democratic society.<\/li>\n<li>Community-Based\u00a0Learning helps with community education and contributes thousands of hours of community engagement\u00a0to people in need, non-profit agencies, private sector companies, non-governmental and governmental agencies, hopefully alleviating poverty and making the community a better place to live in.<\/li>\n<li>Establishing a partnership with the university ensures that self-identified community needs will be met, and a long term partnership provides for a sustainable sources of assistance for years to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have seen the reality of poverty first hand in a way the textbook cannot relate to\u2026 I believe more classes need to install this component. &#8211;\u00a0Marshall University SL Student<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it&#8217;s the only thing that ever has. &#8211;\u00a0Margaret Mead &nbsp; &nbsp; Community-Based\u00a0Learning provides an opportunity for a community to shape students&#8217; values and to prepare students for engaged citizenship, leadership and community participation after college, all essential things in democratic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":2043,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar-right.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/8520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}