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Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with central course themes in ways that promote reflection, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Courses that promote service-learning combine the process of gaining knowledge with direct involvement in community-based research projects, usually centered on social justice. Through this intentional integration of university learning environments with community-based initiatives, service-learning shapes both students and communities in a variety of contexts. For example, our department works directly with the Hampton Roads refugee center to link global migration to the needs of new Americans transitioning from regions of severe conflict and environmental disasters. By engaging in service-learning at either the local or global level, students are able to greatly expand their academic inquiry, providing new ways of understanding and a journey of discovery not found in a traditional setting. At the same time, communities and organizations benefit from this extensive reciprocal connection with student researchers and professionals in training. In addition to local organizations, the Women's and Gender Studies department has designed graduate and undergraduate immersion courses in Senegal, South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti, and Nepal. We are committed to getting students into the world, whether that be right outside the university's perimeters or across the globe. Our Friends of Women's and Gender Studies organization directly supports the costs of service-learning for both undergraduate and graduate students.