Faculty Resources

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Academic Service-Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection

An academic conception of service-learning, described as "a pedagogical model that intentionally integrates academic learning and relevant community service."

Building Partnerships for Service-Learning 

Contains models and tools for creating and sustaining service-learning programs. Presents frameworks for developing sustainable partnerships and profiles and case studies of successful partnerships with communities, agencies, and public schools.

Civic Responsibility and Higher Education

More than a century ago, John Dewey challenged the education community to look to civic involvement for the betterment of both community and campus. Today, the challenge remains.

Colleges and Universities as Citizens

Critically examines from a variety of perspectives how and why institutions of higher education should accept Ernest Boyer's challenge to become engaged citizens of their communities.

The Complete Guide to Service Learning

A treasury of activities, ideas, quotes, reflections, resources, hundreds of annotated "Bookshelf" recommendations, and author interviews, presented within a curricular context and organized by theme.

Conducting Educational Research

Focuses on analyzing and critically evaluating published research.

Connecting Cognition and Action

Evaluation of student performance in service-learning courses.

Developing and Implementing Service-Learning Programs

Answers the questions: "What exactly is service learning?" and "How can I do it effectively?" Both newcomers and veterans will appreciate the clear, practical advice on such matters as finding community partners, reaching diverse populations, and integrating service-learning and research.

Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Provides the academic community with an understanding of the current state-of-the-art practices in experiential learning, with suggestions for program design and development and operation.

Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction

Offers six models for service-learning courses, a cataloged sample of assignments, and sample syllabi.

A Guide for Change: Resources for Implementing Community Service Writing

Designed for instructors and students who would like to integrate "real world" writing projects into their courses.

Learning Through Serving

Enables the reader to derive the greatest benefit from the experience – in terms of providing meaningful service to the community partner, developing his or her skills and knowledge, and connecting back what she or he learns to course objectives and the framework of his or her discipline.

A Legal Guide for Student Affairs Professionals

Provides access to the laws that regulate student programs, services, and activities. It offers a fully indexed and cross-referenced guide to the state and federal laws that bear on student conduct, students' relationships with institutions, institutional obligations toward students, and student and institutional liability relating to on- and off-campus events activities

Liberal Learning and the Arts of Connection for the New Academy

Challenges us to think in fresh terms about the meaning of education for civic responsibility. What kinds of learning help all students prepare to assume responsibility and leadership in a democracy characterized by diversity and marked by persistent and invidious inequalities?

On Becoming a Servant Leader

Postulates that true leaders are those who lead by serving others. Spanning a time frame of more than fifty years, this collection includes original essays focused on the key issues - power, ethics, management, organizations, and servanthood.

Power of Servant Leadership

Designed to stimulate and inspire people in the practice of a more caring leadership and reflect Greenleaf's continual refinement of his servant-as-leader concept, focusing on issues such as spirit, commitment to vision, and seeing things whole.

Redesigning Curricula: Models of Service Learning Syllabi

Collection of lesson plans and syllabi that are examples of successful service-learning programs.

Servant Leadership

Robert K. Greenleaf, who died in 1990, has been a powerful voice in the dialogue to reshape management and leadership policy.

Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience

Documents the congruence of two powerful educational concerns: the success of first year students and the potential of service-learning as a teaching-learning strategy.

Service-Learning Code of Ethics

This book will prepare students, faculty, and administrators for the sometimes difficult ethical dilemmas that arise during the service-learning process.

Service-Learning in Higher Education

Rooted in Dewey and building on the work of the National Society for Experiential Education and its predecessors, this comprehensive volume is useful for experienced practitioners and newcomers alike. Academic deans, department heads, and faculty members will profit mightily from its solid combination of conceptual underpinnings and specific institutional examples.

Service-Learning: History, Theory, and Issues

Explores the controversies surrounding service-learning practice.

Service Matters: A Sourcebook for Community Service in Higher Education

Compiles trends and statistics, national service initiatives, community service contacts, funding information and national organizations with more than 500 models and examples.

Student Learning Outside the Classroom

Explores the issue of institutional productivity and student learning outside the classroom. Reviews the conditions that can foster a climate where out-of-classroom experiences can contribute to greater educational productivity.

Student Service: The New Carnegie Unit

A comprehensive report examining both voluntary and compulsory community service programs of high schools in America.

Successful Service-Learning Programs

Experienced leaders share how they have championed successful service-learning programs that have enriched their campuses and renewed their communities.

Syllabi Guide for Incorporating Service-Learning into the Curriculum

Contains 116 sample syllabi from 57 disciplines and over 100 courses from Florida community college and university courses that incorporate service-learning.

A Time for Boldness

Presents the story of how an urban research university is redefining what it means to be an engaged university.

Understanding the Role of Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration in Creating a Successful Learning Environment

Examines authentic models of collaboration that will help to develop successful student leaders for the new century. It reviews the results of a national study on academic and student affairs collaborations and provides organizational models and facilitators of change as well as examples of facilitative strategies in action.

Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?

Defines learning expectations, presents data about learning, and links program characteristics with learning outcomes. It is the first book to explore the experience of service-learning as a valid learning activity.

Acting Locally: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Environmental Studies

Provides a brief history of programs, class objectives, and agendas, and impacts on students, teachers, and the community.

Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Philosophy

Deals with service learning as an approach to teaching and learning in philosophy.

Building Bridges: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Spanish

Aims at helping teachers, administrators, and students realize the potential of service learning in Spanish classes.

Campus Partners in Learning: Resource Manual for Campus-Based Youth Mentoring Programs

A guide for establishing a mentoring program, adding a mentoring component to existing programs serving youths, and improving current mentoring efforts.

Caring and Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Nursing

Describes ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service learning as a methodology into many diverse settings.

Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum

Offers faculty in all disciplines rationales and resources for connecting their service-learning efforts to the broader goals of civic engagement.

Connecting Past and Present: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in History

Includes case studies and descriptions of service-learning and history (American, European, Latin American) in the higher education setting.

Creating Community Responsive Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Medical Education

Intended to help the reader understand service learning, how it differs from traditional clinical medical education, and how, as a form of experiential education, it can have a profound impact on students, faculty, communities, medical schools, and the relationships among these important stakeholders.

The Engaged Department Toolkit

This handbook is designed to help departments develop strategies for including community-based work in their teaching and scholarship, making community-based experiences a standard expectation for majors, and encouraging civic engagement and progressive change at the departmental level.

Experiencing Citizenship: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Political Science

Eighteen articles most of which include course syllabi.

From Cloister to Commons: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Religious Studies

Includes theoretical papers, pedagogical papers (at the course and institutional level) on the topic of religious studies and service learning.

Learning by Doing: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Accounting

This collection intends to introduce and provide concrete materials on service learning to be used by accounting faculty and educators.

Learning with the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Teacher Education

An attempt to bring together the best recent work in the field to assist teacher educators in developing successful service learning in their programs and to promote policies and procedures that will foster successful service-learning activities at the local, state, and national levels.

The Practice of Change: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's Studies

Includes case studies and descriptions of service learning and women's studies in the higher education setting.

Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering

Not only serves as a practical guide for faculty seeking to integrate service learning into an engineering course but also to examine larger issues of engineering education, the mission of higher education, and the role of service learning as a catalysis for program reform and educational enhancement.

Snapshots of Service in the Disciplines

Highlights over 70 service-learning projects from the 1994-95 Corporation for National Service (CNS) grants awarded to faculty by Campus Compact. Covers a wide range of disciplines, from accounting to urban studies.

Teaching for Justice: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Peace Studies

Provides essays on the integration of service learning into the field of peace studies.

Teaching Service-Learning as an Academic Course

Important considerations, student evaluation, class meetings, techniques, syllabi samples, reflection, bibliography

Voices of Strong Democracy: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Communication Studies

Includes conceptual essays, pedagogical papers (at the course and institutional level) on the topic of communication studies and service-learning.

With Service in Mind: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Psychology

Six articles that address how psychological theory, research, and practice bear on collaborating with communities, interpreting changes in students, and using psychological techniques to understand and act on social problems. The remaining articles demonstrate how service learning can be effectively integrated into a variety of psychology courses so that student learning is enhanced in breadth and depth.

Working for the Common Good: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Management

Designed to help management faculty, and those who manage them, to catch the vision of the service-learning movement.

Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition

Includes case studies and descriptions of service learning and postsecondary writing and composition classes.