Characteristics of Academic
Service-Learning
Community service serves as the vehicle for the achievement of
specific academic goals and objectives.
It provides structured time for students to reflect on their
service and learning experiences through a mix of writing, reading,
speaking, listening and creating in small and large groups and
individual work. It fosters the development of those "intangibles"-
empathy, personal values, beliefs, awareness, self-esteem,
self-confidence, social responsibility and helps to foster a sense
of caring for others. It is based on a reciprocal relationship in
which the service reinforces and strengthens the learning and the
learning reinforces and strengthens the service.
Credit is awarded for college-level learning, not for a
requisite number of service hours.
For more information concerning adding an Academic
Service-Learning option to your class, please contact: Janet E.
Mangione, M.A., Associate Director of Academic Service-Learning at
St. John’s University ext. 6268 or via e-mail at mangionj@stjohns.edu.
Below is a comprehensive list of Dean’s Offices that can be
contacted for more program opportunities for your students:
The Peter J. Tobin College of
Business
- Queens
Bent Hall, Room 111A
(718) 990-6212 - Staten Island
Spellman Hall, Room 101
(718) 390-4509
College of Professional Studies
- Queens
Bent Hall, Rooms 113 and 268
(718) 990-6414 - Staten Island
Lavelle Hall, Room 106
(718) 390-4449
College of Pharmacy and Allied Health
Professions
- Queens
St. Albert Hall, Room 171
(718) 990-6275
The School of Education
- Queens
Marillac Hall, Room 210
(718) 990-6208 - Staten Island
Spellman Hall, Room 117
(718) 390-4491
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
- Queens
St. John Hall, Room 145
(718) 990-6271 - Staten Island
Flynn Hall, Room 102
(718) 390-4300