Welcome to the Office of Civic & Community Engagement
Aloha! Welcome to the Service Learning Program (SLP) at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Since 1994, our office has worked with students, faculty, and members of the community. The SLP provides students with the opportunity to volunteer in their community in meaningful ways while furthering their education.
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Aloha students,
Welcome! Check out our upcoming events page for volunteer opportunities! We have developed some protocols for those who want to serve our community while staying safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We also put together a list of ways how to help our community.
There are various food distribution sites all over the island to help people in need. Kapi'olani Community College is offering a food pick up from Pohukaina Food Pantry every week. Contact LaVache Scanlan lavache@hawaii.edu/808-734- 9371 or Colette Andrade-Fujii andradef@hawaii.edu/808-734-9645.
The UH Mānoa Food Vault remains open and is available by appointment only. Click here for more information!
What is Service Learning?
Service Learning combines the best of active learning and citizenship by connecting course content with service projects that help the community. It is a powerful way of understanding course material by learning from experience.
Service Learning can help
- To develop personal and social responsibility
- To develop leadership ability and critical thinking skills
- To improve your knowledge of academic subjects
- To expand your world view
- To develop skills for future employment
Preparing for the Real World
Service Learning is all about connecting what you're learning in class to the real world. It helps you find relevance in the material you're learning, and exposes you to real-life situations to enhance your understanding. We hope you'll find that the four walls that separate the classroom outside of college suddenly become less daunting after you engage in a service learning project.

Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.
Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, ed. by Thomas Ehrlich, 2000 (Preface, page vi)
A morally and civically responsible individual recognizes himself or herself as a member of a larger social fabric and therefore considers social problems to be at least partly his or her own; such an individual is willing to see the moral and civic dimensions of issues, to make and justify informed moral and civic judgements, and ti take action when appropriate.
Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, ed. by Thomas Ehrlich, 2000 (Introduction, page xxvi)
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