Our Purpose

Vision

Our vision is to prepare students to become civically engaged citizens

Mission

To promote excellence in teaching and learning through active service by:

• Collaborating with the community
• Encouraging servant leadership
• Promoting personal growth
• Fostering civic and social responsibility

Definition of Service-Learning

Service-Learning is a teaching and learning method that connects meaningful community service with academic instruction through guided reflection.

Areas of focus include:

• Career exploration
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Values clarification
• Social and personal development
• Civic and community responsibility

Service-Learning at MCC

We strive to make a difference through the outreach of our students, whether our students are:

• Serving through their class (in-course module)
• Building their own class to serve (independent-module)
• Serving through one of our many community partner organizations (service sites)

We work to ensure that our department makes a difference, even if it is only to one person.