Program benefits

The Community Service Associates Program offers a variety of professional and personal benefits for faculty, students and community organizations.

Faculty benefits

As a faculty participant, your experiences provide a range of benefits, both personally and professionally.

Senior faculty members reported that their experience has allowed them to:

• Use their skills in real-world settings.
• Share their expertise.
• Test skills and theories.
• Give something back to the community.

Junior faculty members reported that their experience has enabled them to:

• Develop relationships in the community that have complemented their research agendas.
• Gain new insight that they can use in their teaching.
• Pilot projects with external funding opportunities.
• Generate publications.

Student benefits

As a student participant, your experiences provide:

• Direct involvement in the projects, which build upon your research and applied experiences.
• Faculty contacts, which often lead to internships or job placements.
• Enhanced learning – faculty integrate the Community Service Associates Program experience into courses.

Community benefits

As a community participant, your involvement offers:

• Access to university faculty expertise.
• Development of capacity within your organizations.
• Creation of university-community relationships.