Academic Service Learning

Placing Siena students in partnership with the poor and marginalized provides a context for the knowledge they learn at Siena and brings to life the Franciscan Tradition as hallmark of a Siena education.

Academic Service Learning (ASL) at Siena includes all forms of academic teaching and learning in which learning outcomes of an academic course or project are met in whole or in part through meaningful service to a community-based organization. The ASL Program assists Faculty through training, design assistance, managing community partner relations, identification of community partner needs, building ASL networks of faculty across the region, and student and community partner training and development.