Service-Learning and Interpersonal Communication: Connecting Students With the Community

Ernest Boyer concluded his survey of undergraduate education with "the uncomfortable feeling that the most vital issues of life — the nature of society the roots of social injustice, indeed the very prospects of human survival — are the ones with which the undergraduate college student is least equipped to deal" (Boyer 1987: 283). Higher education needs to encourage students to see beyond themselves and better understand the interdependent nature of society Sendee-learning can provide this opportunity and offer an antidote to the separation of college students from the wider community