Student Service Learning Program

Our mission at Oliverian is to prepare students “ . . . to succeed in a complex, intricate, and ever-changing world.” Oliverian students achieve “success through service” in two distinctly powerful ways: (1) the stewardship of our campus resources via the community work initiative, and (2) reaching out to local, regional, national, and international communities in service learning projects.

Community Service Projects

The Community Work Initiative is designed to encourage daily and sustained achievement through task and project completion. Students will transfer this learning to other areas of their life, including academics, interpersonal relationships, leisure pursuits, and character development.

Through service learning students are empowered to establish their own service goals and to design projects, thus fostering a sense of personal control over their own education, leading to self-motivated learning and self-directed personal growth.

A final goal of service at Oliverian is to “encourage self-exploration, spirituality, character formation and integrity.” We encourage students to explore their inter-dependent relationship with others and with the natural world. Our students will eat food harvested from gardens that they’ve planted and maintained, while also discovering a sense of awe and accomplishment as they maintain the natural habitat of indigenous wildlife. These experiences help our students to balance their individual needs with those of the community. They guide our students to an understanding of the “deeper purpose” in life and to the cultivation of a productive democratic school culture.