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Office of Service Learning

The UGA Office of Service-Learning supports academic service-learning and community engagement initiatives designed
to enhance students’ civic and academic learning, promote engaged research that is responsive to community needs,
and contribute to the public good through mutually beneficial community-university partnerships. With support from
the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach and the Vice President for Instruction, OSL has facilitated
182 service-learning courses in AY 2013-14 that combine active, experiential and inquiry-based learning with real world
problem solving on campus and in the broader community. In FY15 OSL launched the Clarke Middle School Kitchen
Garden Corp to teach middle school students about growing, harvesting and preparing nutritious, local foods,
and established Experience UGA, a partnership with Clarke County School District to host interactive fiel