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The Volunteer and Service Learning Center offers a wide variety of services to non-profit agencies in search of UT volunteers. We hope that through our center you may find committed individuals seeking to serve their community.

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
-George Santayana

Post volunteer opportunities in the UT Volunteer.org Database

Hundreds of UT students, staff and faculty in search of service events access the database on a daily basis. We encourage you to register your organization and post your volunteer opportunity!

Get involved with our Service Learning Program

Service Learning integrates volunteer community service and guided reflection into the academic curriculum to enhance and enrich student learning while meeting a community need. Service learning volunteers are a wonderful resource for community agencies, but also are not your "typical" volunteers. Students will have specific learning objectives related to the focus of the class they are enrolled in. The agency supervisor and the service learning student should complete a service learning contract to clarify the service learning objectives, duties, and purpose. This document will be shared with the faculty member teaching the service learning class. In this way expectations are clear for all involved. Acrobat Icon Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

Join us for Volunteer Fairs

The Fair is a wonderful opportunity for volunteers to walk to Speedway Mall and gather information from non-profit agencies interested in working with the UT community. The details and registration information can be found at UTvolunteer.org beginning in August and January of each academic year.

For agencies to register, please email your name and general contact information to Cheryl Sawyer, cheryls@austin.utexas.edu. A confirmation and details will be emailed to you.

Upcoming Dates:

  • Wednesday, February 19, 2011    Spring Volunteer Fair
    Saturday, February 26, 2011       Project 2011
    Saturday, April 9, 2011               Project Reach Out
    Wednesday, April 27, 2011          Tower Awards

Contact us if you would like to know more about our training and information sessions.


  Updated June 08 2010
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