Student Services

Service Learning: Project Reach

Service Learning Home Page | Agency Steps to Service Learning | Faculty Steps to Service Learning | Students Steps to Service Learning | Service Learning Opportunities | Student Enrollment Form | Student Evaluation Online Form | Community Evaluation Online Form | Faculty Evaluation Online Form | Project Reach | Civic Engagement Center | Annual Service Projects

Project Reach

Prairie State College was one of eight distinct community colleges to receive a grant from the American Association of Community Colleges to create inclusive service learning opportunities for students with disabilities.

Along with faculty partiipation, the Label us Able student organizations plan and implement activities, with the help of Student Life.

Some activities that have included students with disabilities are:

• United Way Fundraising Annual event
• Fashion shows
• Walk of Hope
• Relay for Life
• Phi Theta Kappa service projects
• Black Student Union events and service projects
• All Latin Alliance service projects
• Label us Able events and service projects

Civic Engagement Center

The Center offers space on PSC's campus to four community-based organizations:

• The Center for Multi-Cultural Communities (formerly Healing Racism Chicago Southland)
• Diversity Dinners
• Unity Coalition Southland
• National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI)

The purpose of the Center is to connect these organizations with our students, faculty and staff and provide volunteer opportunities for students and employees who want to make a difference in their community.

A brand new service learning opportunity will be available to PSC students through the Center for Multi-Cultural Communities beginning in the Spring 2009 semester. Opportunities will be available for students to act as Mystery Shoppers to the various retail and restaurants in the Southland area. This program is designed to compare and contrast services provided to different ethnic and age groups. More details to come.

For more informaiton about performing service learning with any of these groups, please contact awinters@prairiestate.edu.

Annual Service Projects

• Martin Luther King Day of Service www.mlkday.gov
  • Collaboration between Adult Education & the Civic Engagement Center
• Heartland Blood Drive & Dr. Charles Drew Blood Drive
  • Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society & Student Government Association service project
• Cesar E. Chavez Serve & Learn Project
  • All Latin Alliance Service Project
• National Global & Youth Service Day
  • Collaboration with SouthSTAR Services community partner
• Keep America Beautiful
  • Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society service project
• Operation Green Recycling Project
  • Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society service project
• National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Day
  • Collaboration between the Civic Engagement Center, Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society, and the department of Arts & Sciences faculty
• United Way Days (pdf of flyer)
  • Student Government Association / Campus Activities Programming Committee service project