The Kernodle Center for Civic Life states "The Kernodle Center inspires, educates, and prepares students and campus to partner with diverse communities to address local and global challenges, and gain a deeper understanding of their responsibility to actively contribute to civic life. The center serves as the convener of community-based engaged and experiential student learning opportunities in collaboration with faculty, staff, and community partners to address the common good."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peter |first=Felten, |last2=Z. |first2=Gilchrist, Leigh |last3=Alexa |first3=Darby, |date=2006-01-01 |title=Emotion and Learning: Feeling our Way Toward a New Theory of Reflection in Service-Learning |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3239521.0012.204 |journal=Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning |language=en |volume=12 |issue=2 |issn=1944-0219}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=Jessie l. |date=September 2013 |title=Preparing Advocates: Service-Learning in TESOL for Future Mainstream Educators |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tesj.97 |journal=TESOL Journal |language=en |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=555–570 |doi=10.1002/tesj.97}}</ref>
