Internships & Service Learning
Discover how service, learning, and career experiences create real‑world impact. RVCC connects students with mentors and opportunities that build skills, strengthen resumes, and expand networks.
Service Learning & Community Engagement at RVCC connects your education to meaningful action. Through hands-on experiences, students move beyond the classroom to serve real community needs while growing academically, professionally, and personally.
The Pray Family Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement helps RVCC students connect classroom learning with meaningful service in the community. Through service-learning courses, volunteer opportunities, and partnerships with local organizations, students can explore causes they care about, build practical skills, and make a positive impact beyond campus.
Service learning allows students to apply what they learn in class to real situations in the community. These experiences deepen understanding, strengthen skills, and show how education can create positive change beyond campus.
By engaging with local partners, students gain insight into social challenges while discovering how their unique talents can help build a better world.
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Service and experiential learning help students grow in ways textbooks alone cannot.
These experiences shape confident, engaged, and career-ready graduates.
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Students can participate through academic courses or independent service opportunities, making it easy to find a path that fits their goals and schedule.
Service Learning integrates community service directly into your coursework. In designated classes, students participate in service projects connected to course themes and learning outcomes.
Through guided reflection, students deepen their understanding of academic content while earning course credit. Service Learning may be required or optional, depending on the class, and is offered across many disciplines.
This approach brings coursework to life through collaboration with community partners.
Not enrolled in a Service Learning course? You can still make a difference.
Co-curricular service allows any student to volunteer independently of their academic schedule. It’s flexible, meaningful, and ideal for students who want to support causes they care about while building experience.
RVCC works with more than 250 community partners, giving students opportunities to connect with causes, organizations, and experiences that match their interests. Service experiences may also be documented through an engagement transcript, helping students tell the story of their impact when applying for jobs, scholarships, transfer, or future opportunities.
For more information, contact: Service.Learning@raritanval.edu
The Office of Career Services and Experiential Learning offers a wide range of internship opportunities & experiences to help students explore careers and gain professional experience.
Career Services and Experiential Learning can help students explore internship options, prepare for the job search, and connect with career tools and resources. Students may also use Handshake to search for job and internship postings, attend career-related workshops, and get support with resumes, interviews, networking, and career planning.
Internships allow students to test career interests, apply classroom learning in real workplaces, and develop skills employers value. Whether exploring a major or building experience in a chosen field, internships support professional growth and networking.
Internships are flexible, available year-round, and may be paid or unpaid. While not credit-bearing, they provide insights and experience you can’t gain in the classroom alone.
Students may also explore co-op opportunities for more structured, work-based learning as well as different corporate mentoring and job shadow experiences.
Students can begin by connecting with RVCC’s career support team or meeting with a career professional to learn more about available opportunities.
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