Institutional Membership

For almost 30  years, IPSL has worked to promote intercultural understanding, deepen student learning, and provide help to those in need through service-learning. Our mission is twofold: to develop and promote the pedagogy of service-learning through advocacy, publications, and training, and to offer international service-learning programs for college and university students which uphold our high standards.

As IPSL has implemented our student programs and our various advocacy efforts, we have met more and more higher education institutions and leaders who have expressed a desire to join a network of institutions interested in the international and intercultural dimensions of service-learning—a network that would bring together those who have been active in the field for many years with those just getting started, and a network that would support and reflect principles of academic quality and reciprocity in service and learning.

We invite  institutions to join such a network by becoming a member of IPSL.

As a member, you will join like-minded institutions in broadening the dialogue on international service-learning, engage in contact and collaboration with your peers around the world, receive information, ideas and assistance from IPSL, and have opportunities to provide your knowledge, experience, reflections and questions as peers to your fellow members as well as to IPSL as it fulfills its dual mission of advocacy and program development in the field.

Each Institution membership includes up to three individual members. In addition, by becoming a member, your institution will receive several other benefits:

• On first joining IPSL, you may receive a copy of all  IPSL publications without charge, and a 20% discount on publications thereafter.
• Every two years, IPSL organizes a Symposium at one of our program sites abroad. Here, institutions can receive advice and training on international service-learning, share information about their work, and network with other IPSL constituents. You will receive one complimentary registration fee for each member institution.
• IPSL waives the $75 program application fee for all member institutions sending students on IPSL programs.
• Target Opportunity Grants. IPSL provides funding for per diem and lodging at our program sites if faculty and/or administrators from member institutions want to do a site visit for the express purpose of promoting the program afterward on their campus.
• 5% discount on Customized and Faculty Led Programs to one of our sites.
• Although our staff size is small, we make every effort to visit our member institutions at study abroad fairs, presentations, and the like. 
• 5% discount on annual licensing fee of GopherU database.

We look forward to welcoming you as part of the IPSL network. If you have any questions, please contact Arianne Newton, our Director of Communications, Alumni and Institutional Relations at 503-477-9330 or email anewton@ipsl.org.

Download a membership application.