Service Learning

Students applying their learning to benefit our neighbors.

• Inver Hills Students have completed over 35,729 hours in service to the community since Fall, 2003.
  
• According to the Independent Sector, the total economic value of IHCC student service learning hours equals $670,633 over the past 4 years.
  
• During the 2006-07 school year, 725 students and 38 faculty participated in service learning. Compared to 2003, this is twice the number of student participants and triple the number of faculty.
  
• IHCC service learning is currently collaborating with 53 community agencies.
  
• IHCC Service Learning Department was recently funded a Campus Compact grant worth $19,900 in a project that links civic engagement and college retention.
  
• Each Spring, IHCC service learners participate in a Katrina Relief Excursion, which includes approximately 25 students, 4 faculty, and over 1,000 hours of service work to the New Orleans Community. 

Mission Statement

IHCC Service Learning strives to engage students in active learning that stimulates critical thinking and reflection, addresses genuine community needs, and fosters lifelong civic engagement.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

Newsletter

Service Learning Newsletter (Spring 2008) 

Contact Us

Emily Zoeller, Director of Service Learning
Inver Hills Community College

2500 East 80th Street

Heritage Hall 303

Inver Grove Heights, MN  55076
Phone:  651 450 8594
Fax:  651 552 3317
Email: ezoelle@inverhills.edu

These pages were created by Robert Stewart, Abdullahi Mohamed, and Cora Lee Aldrich as a part of a service learning project.