Faculty
Modeling Service
Explore the resources below to incorporate community service and service-learning
into your advising, courses, and student organizations.
If your department or student organization is sponsoring a 3–5 hour community service project, you can submit it for approval to fulfill students' Christian Service requirement.
Interested in transforming a course into a service-learning experience? Learn how to design a course that connects academic learning with meaningful community engagement.
Together, we can advance Southern's mission of transforming lives for eternity by equipping students to live lives of faith-filled service.
Submit a Community Service Request
Is your student organization or department sponsoring a community service event that is 3-5 hours?
Service-Learning or Add-on Course Timeline
Reacy to Submit Course Proposal?
Follow the links to view information about the application process and download relevant forms.
Service-Learning
To offer your course for service-learning credit you will need to submit a proposal form for the Christian Service Committee to review.
Faculty Development Presentations
Learn what other classes and professors are doing for Service-Learning.
11/8/23 - Cheryl Craven, Blake Laing, Randy Craven, Laurie Stankavich - Service Learning: Professor Profiles
Service-learning is an educational methodology, which combines student service experiences in the community with explicit academic learning objectives, and deliberate reflection.
Hear from three professors about the service-learning experiences they provide through their SERV-2 designated courses.
Watch presentation here.
2/26/25 - Cheryl Craven - Service Learning and the Add-On Class
Service-learning is an educational methodology that combines student service experiences in the community with explicit academic learning objectives and deliberate reflection.
Hear from four professors – Tyson Hall, Jay Anders, Sean Walters, and Ben Schnell – about the service-learning experiences they provide through their SERV-2 designated courses.
Watch presentation here.
2/11/26 – Chery Craven – Christian Service: Spotlight on Service-Learning
Do students have course options for service-learning in your academic discipline?
Service-learning is an educational methodology that combines student service experiences
in the community with explicit academic learning objectives and deliberate reflection.
Hear from four professors and a special guest Eva Vanhook, Executive Director of Family
Promise of Bradley County. Presentations will highlight the application of service-learning
in business, applied technology, and nursing disciplines, with a focus on working
with nonprofits.
Watch presentation here.