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Our Mission

The mission of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center is to promote, organize, facilitate, support and reflect on community service for the UT-Austin community, especially students. With this is mind, the VSLC strives to:

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work."
-Thomas A. Edison
  • educate students on becoming advocates for service,
  • focus on student cognitive, moral, ethical, social, and democratic development through service activities,
  • strengthen healthy relationships between students and their communities,
  • expand and support service learning on campus, and
  • help students develop effective service programs.