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Kalamazoo College initiated the service-learning program in 1997.

In 2001, Trustee Ronda Stryker dedicated to her grandmother the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service Learning.

This Institute was created to house several Service-Learning programs in the school.

The current director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute is Alison Geist.

In 2008, Kalamazoo College had twenty-three on-going service-learning programs.

There are several courses in the college that incorporate service-learning into their curricula.

The programs in service-learning include Community Advocates for Parents and Students ; Helping Youth through Personal Empowerment ; Academic Mentorship In Giants On-going Success ; the Woodward School ; Keeping the Doors Open ; and Farms to K.