UTech has won awards and the thanks of many agencies and hundreds of children and adults whose lives our first year students have enriched. First Year full time students give forty hours of service to schools, homes, hospitals; homes for children, the handicapped and the aged, libraries, Hope Gardens and Zoo, Holiwell National Park - to name only a few of the organizations with which we work.

For our students (even those who were reluctant or even resentful at first) this has proved a great adventure which they say “they will never forget, much less regret”.

CSP2020: “Human & Social Development Through Service Learning”: An Elective.

Relatively new, this Elective course offers students with an interest in community service and a possible career in the volunteer/development sector, national or international, governmental or with an “N.G.O.” a chance to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills. Academic lectures are supported by practical work in a service agency related to the student’s professional programme. The course begins with a one-week tour of diverse Jamaican communities – like the Maroon Town of Accompong.

International Community Service

The International Partnership for Service-Learning (IPSL) a United States-based organization who pioneered the concept of Service-Learning, academic study united with service to the community, has collaborated with the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies for many years. Each year its students spend a semester on the UTech campus – for 3 days per week attending classes on the literature, the history and life of the Caribbean and for 2 days working/volunteering in Jamaican service agencies (some of the same agencies in which our CSP1010 students serve/work).

Community Service is an integral part of life at UTech. It makes a statement about us, about the UTech graduate, about the way we perceive ourselves and others and about how we perceive our country, and the world.