About APPLES

Mission Statement

APPLES is a student-led program that builds sustainable, service-learning partnerships among students, faculty and communities in North Carolina and beyond. By engaging all partners in an enriched, community-based curriculum, APPLES experiential programs foster socially aware and civically involved students.

Organizational Beliefs and Values

  • Sustained commitment to public service integrated in academic curricula
  • Collaborative student-led program with University support
  • Program development driven by community issues
  • Partnership with University and community
  • Relevant intersection of issues in local and global communities

What does APPLES stand for?
Assisting People in Planning Learning Experiences in Service

What is Service-Learning?
Service-Learning is:

  • A method by which students learn through active participation in thoughtfully organized service.
  • An activity conducted in, and meeting the needs of, the community.
  • A program integrated into and enhancing academic curriculum, which includes a structured time for reflection and helps foster civic responsibility.

Contact Us

The APPLES Service-Learning Program is located in the
Carolina Student Union, Suite 3514
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB # 5210
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5210.

You may contact us at:
(919) 962-0902
(919) 843-9685 (fax)
or by email at apples@unc.edu

Directions

  1. Get on Hwy 54 heading towards Chapel Hill.
  2. After passing the exit for Hwy 15-501, you will see a visitor parking lot on your right just before the stoplight.
  3. Continue straight on this road (South Road).
  4. You will pass the Knapp Building on your left and the cemetery on your right.
  5. At the next stoplight, the gym will be on your left and the Student Union on your right. (This is the corner of South Road and Raleigh Road.)
  6. Turn right onto Raleigh Road and the first set of stairs that you see on your left leads into the Student Union.
  7. APPLES is located just within this entrance; it is the first door on your left upon entering.

Download an Adobe Acrobat version of a map.