How Service Learning is Conducted in a School of Business

Abstract

The article describes the process of conducting service learning projects at The George Washington Universityon a graduate level. The main goal of the article is to explore service learning as a learning methodology and tostress some of the benefits and costs of this approach of teaching. Also this article presents some important les-sons learned from conducting service learning at George Washington University and some figures about num-ber of the projects done in past and type of the projects and clients. The emphasis is on projects conducted withprivate voluntary organizations in the DC area.