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“Doing service learning is not just helpful to students, it also plays an important role in the community,”  Springer said.

“Service learners are a necessity. They help provide interventions for students who struggle with literacy, math and behavior by providing one-to-one instructional support.” Lansing Reo School Principal Kim Johnson Ray said.

Many MSU students are doing community service at Lansing Reo School. Most of them would be assigned to a specific class and help students there for lunch or activities, or sometimes do one-to-one tutoring.

“I really enjoyed the time I spent there,” education major student Tianshu Hong, who did service learning at Lansing Reo School last year, said.

There are a lot of choices for students to choose where to do service learning.

“We partner with over 370 community agencies and we have hosted different kinds of programs, pretty much anything someone wants to do we can find them a partner,” Springer said.

“The agencies tell us how many students they need and specific time and all these are online, students can always come in and talk to someone whether to figure out what they want to do or they’re part of a group like you are part of a club here on campus and you guys want to do a service project, we can help you with that too,” Springer said.

“I also work with groups that go to internationality or in different places around the country and do work, for example, they might go over spring break in a couple weeks, we have 13 trips getting ready to go to different places,” said Cradit.

“They all really like it, we have a lot of students who go once and they come back year after year and continue doing it cause they really enjoy it,” Cradit said.