Abstract: The social service function of universities and colleges has been paid full attention in the world.How to maintain high quality and effective interaction between universities and society is a topic of concern to universities,government and society.The concept of service learning in the United States,which originated in the 1960s,has received the attention of many countries and universities by restructuring the relationship between “service” and “learning” and advocating social service to feed back talent cultivation.From the perspective of concept dimension,we should pay attention to the development and welfare of teachers,students and communities and directly feed back talent cultivation;from the perspective of system,we should strengthen the system of “politics,school and society” to ensure the diversification of personnel training;from the perspective of practice,we should implement talent training in localization in the process of focusing on the physical construction of central institutions.In-depth understanding and reflection on it can provide new thinking for the in-depth play of social service functions,the overall improvement of teaching and learning quality and the reform of talent training in the construction of Chinas double first-class universities.

Key words: service learning, social service, talent cultivation, American universities and colleges