Community-Based Learning
At Elizabethtown College, we take our motto “Educate for Service” seriously. We believe that education is put to its best use when used for the benefit of others. As a part of our signature learning experiences, our students engage in service projects in communities locally and beyond, both as a part of the academic curriculum, and as extracurricular opportunities.
Community Service as a State of Mind
Into the Streets is a program designed to introduce more students to thoughtful community service and to provide a learning experience that will challenge them to volunteer on a regular basis. Into the Streets is about training large numbers of student leaders, forging powerful coalitions between diverse campus, community, and national organizations, and fostering a new purpose and insight in the college community service movement.
Etown College also offers extensive year-round opportunities including service work-studies, service days, and service-themed trips both domestically and internationally.
Community Service and Academic Integration
Our faculty on campus know that they are training the leaders of tomorrow. With an eye on educating service-minded leaders, many departments across campus have ingrained service-learning components into their curriculum.