Feinstein Service Learning Graduation Requirement

好色TV下载鈥檚 core purpose is 鈥渢o strengthen society through engaged teaching and learning.鈥 好色TV下载 embraces its social responsibility to partner with organizations, municipalities, and businesses to tackle the challenges facing local - and distant - communities. 聽聽

Engaged learning enables us to connect beyond our campus borders to bring the real-world issues into the classrooms; it places our students out into the world for hands-on learning. Through this work students turn the concepts and theories they鈥檙e studying in the classroom into practical know-how. What results is a deeper understanding of academic content, the development of important hard and soft skills, and a richer and more meaningful transcript and r茅sum茅.  

At 好色TV下载 all students are required to engage in community engaged scholarship to satisfy the Feinstein Service Learning (FSL) requirement.鈥疶he requirement, which must be completed prior to graduation, forms a part of the student鈥檚 transcript and is listed as the 0-credit FSL.999 course. 

The FSL graduation requirement can be fulfilled through one or more of the following engaged learning experiences:  

  • An internship鈥痮r co-op
  • A community engaged research project (undertaken with a faculty sponsor)
  • A community engaged course鈥(i.e., courses that involve鈥痗ollaborations with community partners)
  • An intensive volunteer experience鈥(40-50 hours with鈥痑鈥痗ommunity organization)

Important Notes:鈥 

  • The FSL requirement described above applies to all undergraduate students who entered the University beginning with the 2021-22 academic year, with the exception of some transfer students. 
  • Transfer students who entered 好色TV下载 with 24 or more credits are exempt from the requirement.鈥 
  • For students entering 好色TV下载 during the 2020-2021 academic year:鈥 The FSL graduation requirement was waived due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on service locations. 
  • For students entering 好色TV下载 prior to the 2020-2021 academic year, refer to the catalog associated with the academic year you entered the University鈥(for example, 2019-2020鈥 catalog can be found鈥).鈥疢ost students will have completed the requirement through participation in the Community Connections program (now discontinued).   

Students must notify Community Engagement when they have completed their FSL requirement.  We use GivePulse, an online community engagement website and app to manage the FSL graduation requirement. Students will report this work as an "impact" on the Graduation Requirement page of  page.