College of Health Professions

Service-Learning Focus: Explore communication processes, disorders across the lifespan, and evidence-informed intervention approaches while engaging directly with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to support inclusive communication and social integration.

Past Partner: Bobcat RISE (Focus: Inclusive postsecondary education support, intellectual and developmental disability engagement, speech-language and cognitive communication interaction)

Service-Learning Focus: Apply evidence-based practices in bilingual speech-language pathology to assess, support, and provide culturally and linguistically responsive clinical intervention strategies for dual-language learners and bilingual individuals.

Past Partners: Community Social Service Organizations & Local Agencies (Focus: Bilingual speech-language pathology, second language acquisition support, culturally responsive intervention, and community language screening)

Service-Learning Focus: Examine historical, cultural, and professional dynamics in healthcare delivery while engaging directly with older adults to practice professional language, cultural competence, and empathetic communication in care environments.

Past Partners: Area Senior Living Centers & Local Resident Care Facilities (Focus: Senior care engagement, professional healthcare communication, intergenerational interaction, and cultural competence)

Service-Learning Focus: Observe and participate in supervised administrative activities within healthcare settings, applying core management concepts to evaluate operational practices, decision-making processes, and organizational structures.

Past Partners: Local Health Service Providers & International Healthcare Facilities (Focus: Healthcare management observation, operational process analysis, administrative decision-making, and institutional evaluation)

Service-Learning Focus: Engage in a full-time field experience featuring structured rotations and project-based work to apply foundational health administration principles, critical thinking, and ethical decision-making in practice-based clinical and administrative environments.

Past Partners: Regional Health Systems and Community Health Organizations (Focus: Healthcare administration rotations, preceptor-guided leadership, operational project management, and interprofessional collaboration)

Service-Learning Focus: Integrate advanced didactic knowledge with executive health administration practice through a full-time placement, completing strategic, project-based deliverables and administrative rotations under senior preceptor guidance.

Past Partners: Healthcare Delivery Systems, Local Health Service Agencies, & Global Healthcare Organizations (Focus: Advanced administrative leadership, operational strategy, ethical governance, and healthcare systems management)

Service-Learning Focus: Develop cultural competence and linguistic proficiency within global healthcare environments by engaging directly with international healthcare systems and community health practices.

Past Partners: Spanish-Speaking Community Health Systems & Regional Clinics in Costa Rica (Focus: Cross-cultural healthcare delivery, global wellness practices, medical language immersion, and community health orientation)

Service-Learning Focus: Compare international healthcare systems and key health indicators with U.S. frameworks while analyzing the influence of cultural dynamics and natural resources on global community wellness practices.

Past Partners: Spanish-Speaking Community Health Systems & Regional Clinics in Costa Rica (Focus: Advanced comparative healthcare analysis, health indicators evaluation, global wellness systems, and cross-cultural medical engagement)

Service-Learning Focus: Apply clinical judgment models and evidence-based health assessment techniques to conduct comprehensive physical evaluations and developmental screenings for individuals across the lifespan in community settings.

Past Partners: Local Elementary Schools in San Marcos, Round Rock, & Georgetown Communities (Focus: Pediatric health assessments, community health screenings, developmental observation, and electronic health record documentation)

Service-Learning Focus: Deliver developmentally appropriate, family-centered nursing care and pediatric health screenings by applying clinical judgment models, age-specific safety interventions, and effective communication strategies in community childcare environments.

Past Partners: Local Head Start Programs & Community Early Childhood Centers (Focus: Pediatric health assessments, growth and development monitoring, family-centered health education, and early childhood wellness)

Service-Learning Focus: Hands-on clinical practice in rural community settings, delivering population health care and observing international public health systems and policies in action.

Past Partners: Global Brigades & Panamanian Community Health Workers (Focus: Direct patient intake, mobile clinic operations, and rural community nursing in Panama)

Service-Learning Focus: Apply the public health nursing process through global study, delivering health promotion, disease prevention, and community health assessments in under-resourced international settings.

Past Partners: Global Brigades & Panamanian Community Health Workers (Focus: Sustainable rural healthcare delivery and holistic community health expansion in Panama)

Service-Learning Focus: Perform specialty-specific respiratory care clinical procedures, advanced patient assessments, and diagnostic data interpretation across diverse specialized care environments to enhance technical proficiency and community healthcare delivery.

Past Partners: Healthcare Facilities & Specialty Clinics in Round Rock & San Marcos (Focus: Pediatric/neonatal care, pulmonary diagnostics, pulmonary rehabilitation, home health care, and subacute clinical services)