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Creating, Running, and Sustaining Campus-Community Service-Learning Partnerships: Lessons from Practitioners This handbook addresses "good" partnerships by drawing on the experience of dozens of individuals from colleges and universities and from community organizations in northern New England who have been involved in service-learning partnerships for several years or more.
Service-Learning Course Descriptions This list includes 100+ descriptions of courses, sorted according to discipline, offered at Campus Compact member campuses in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire.
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The VCC Network listserv is used to share information about Vermont Campus Compact programs and grant opportunities. The listserv also features a bi-weekly digest that includes upcoming fellowships, publications, national initiatives, legislative updates, and regional and national conferences.
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Northern New England Service-Learning Faculty Consulting Program
This program enlists the most skilled and experienced faculty graduates of the PBSL Institute, as well as other experienced faculty recruited by VCC staff to serve as consultants to faculty, staff, students, administrators and community partners for service-learning. Consultants assist faculty with introducing service-learning as a pedagogy, creating community partnerships, redesigning courses, devising strategies to develop students' skills and capacities, and developing service-learning research programs. Consultants also assist administrators and community service directors with setting up campus-wide service-learning programs, building campus infrastructure for service-learning, offering faculty development in service-learning and promoting the benefits of service-learning.
Download a Faculty Consultant brochure or Faculty Consultant Request Form
Faculty Consultants may be hired by any member campus by contacting Cheryl Whitney Lower.
"Principles of Good Practice in Service Learning"
"Engaging Democracy" Institute Proceedings
Faculty Guide for Service Learning from Campus Compact for New Hampshire
Books on Service and Service-Learning

National Campus Compact Resources

Organizations and Journals

Association of American Colleges and Universites Liberal Education Journal
The CCPH Community-Campus Partnership Toolkit includes portfolio examples, intended as a resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure.
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement’s (CIRCLE) has several resources and white papers, including "The Impact of Participation in Service- Learning on High School Students’ Civic Engagement" by Shelley Billig, Sue Root, and Dan Jesse
Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit A resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure.
Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART) is a database that provides information on instruments that measure attributes associated with youth development programs. CART includes descriptions of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended to assist those who have an interest in studying the effectiveness of service-learning, safe and drug-free schools and communities, and other school-based youth development activities.
The Corporation for National and Community Service provides opportunities for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities and country through three programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America.
Effective Practices Service Events Page Browse the month-by-month list of service events, each with corresponding effective practices that offer ideas for supporting these service- and volunteering-related events.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute is widely recognized for its role in examining public issues and shaping public policy at the local, state, national, and international levels, and for providing leadership and management expertise to public and nonprofit organizations.
The Higher Education Network for Community Engagement (HENCE) is a response to the growing need to deepen, consolidate, and advance the literature, research, practice, policy, and advocacy for community engagement as a core element of higher education’s role in society. Increasingly, higher education institutions are intentionally connecting academic work to public purposes through extensive partnerships that involve faculty and students in active collaboration with communities. This idea of "community engagement" is renewing the civic mission of higher education and transforming academic culture in ways that are both exciting and challenging.
Idealist on Campus offers resources, events, educational tools, networking opportunities, and other programs that support students and campuses in strengthening communities through service, activism, and civic engagement.
Idealist offers downloadable workshops, originally known as the Civic Engagement Curriculum, developed by C.O.O.L. (Campus Outreach Opportunity League) in partnership with The Bonner Foundation. These workshops are free for public use. Topics include: Leadership; Relationships & Community; Diversity; and Group Infrastructure.
The Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning publishes numerous articles that address the impact of service-learning on faculty, students, community members and others; including The Impact of Service-Learning on College Students by Eyler, Giles and Braxton, Fall 1997 and An Assessment Model for Service-Learning: Comprehensive Case Studies of Impact on Faculty, Students, Community, and Institution by Driscoll, Holland, Gelmon, and Kerrigan (Fall 1996). See abstracts and table of contents (and order past issues).
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has several articles available on the impact of service-learning on K-12 students and college students, as well as "Hot Topics: Impacts, Outcomes and Effects"
Now available from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, Building Citizens: A Critical Reflection and Discussion Guide for Community Service Participants is designed to help community service programs incorporate a deliberative, civic dimension into their programs by guiding participants in reflection that makes explicit connections between service and critical, enlivened citizenship.
Peer Review, Bringing Theory To Practice, Summer 2007, Vol. 9, No. 3
This issue features Bringing Theory to Practice, a project that seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students' education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement. This issue includes a project overview as well as campus examples.
The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
UC Berkeley Service-Learning Research and Development Center provides a number of resources related to service-learning research and evaluation.

Community-Based Research

Service-Learning Research

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education AACTE Best Practice Awards
“Assessing Service-Learning: Results from a survey of "Learn and Serve America, Higher Education" in Change; New Rochelle; Mar/Apr 2000; Maryann J Gray; Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje; Ronald D Fricker Jr; Sandy A Geschwind. ( Search for "assessing service-learning." You have to pay for the full article, but you can view the abstract for free.) (Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning)
"At A Glance: What We Know about The Effects of Service-Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, 1993-2000: Third Edition"
"Best Practices For Reflection" University of Scranton
"Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2006-2009." This new eight-page project brief describes service learning initiatives and highlights at 12 community colleges participating in AACC's current Horizons grant program. (American Association of Community Colleges)
"Impact of Service-Learning and Social Justice Education on College Students’ Cognitive Development" by Yan Wang and Robert Rodgers (2006) in the NASPA Journal.
"The Impact of Service-Learning on Student Achievement: A Statewide Study of Michigan Learn and Serve Grantees 2004 Research Brief"
"The Impacts of Service-Learning on Youth, Schools and Communities: Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning, 1990-1999" (Learning In Deed)
"In Search of Evidence - Measuring Community Engagement and Higher Education" (Eidos)
Jefferson College Center for Teaching and Learning "Theory to Practice"
Maryland’s Best Practices: An Improvement Guide for School-Based Service-Learning (Maryland Student Service Alliance)
"Principles of Good Practice for Combining Service and Learning" (A Wingspread Special Report)
"The Service Learning Component in Business Education: The Values Linkage Void" (Academy of Management Learning & Education)
Reflection in Service-Learning: Selected Resources highlights resources for practitioners and researchers interested in reflection.
"Resource Guide for Staff and Faculty Working in Support of Engaged Students" (Raise Your Voice: Student Action For Change)
"Understanding the Effects of Service Learning: A Study of Students and Faculty" A series of reports, including: How Service Learning Affects Students (2000), The Lasting Impact of College on Young Adults’ Civic and Political Engagement (2005); Comparing the Effects of Community Service and Service-Learning (2000); The Long-Term Effects of Volunteerism During the Undergraduate Years (1999); and How Undergraduates are Affected by Service Participation (1998). ( Higher Ed Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA)

Service-Learning Courses and Syllabi

Template and Sample Form Database - Numerous templates and sample forms collected in one central location for easy access.
Service-Learning Course Descriptions 100+ descriptions of courses, sorted according to discipline, offered at Campus Compact member campuses in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire.
101 Ideas For Combining Service & Learning Florida International University
The Big Dummy's Guide to Service Learning 27 Simple Answers to Good Questions on: Faculty, Programmatic, Student, Administrative, & Non-Profit Issues
The Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC) at University of Minnesotra offers students, community partners, faculty and staff a range of information and resources about service-learning and community involvement.
Community-based Participatory Research Course Syllabi and Course Materials University of Washington
Community-Linked Interdisciplinary Research Course Description "The African Refugee Population in Buffalo" University at Buffalo
Learning In Deed. This site is a tool for becoming informed about and involved in service-learning.
Service-Learning Course Criteria Matrix UC Berkeley
Service-Learning Syllabi at Campus Compact
Find resources about course construction, browse syllabi by discipline, and submit syllabi.

Contact Cheryl Whitney Lower with any questions about these programs at 802-443-2507 or clower@middlebury.edu