The Preuss School
The University of California at San Diego doesn’t just help a local school, it owns one. The Preuss School, on the UCSD campus, is the nation’s first charter school created by a university and dedicated to serving poor minority students. Preuss has access to the resources of UCSD, such as its supercomputers and it’s students, who volunteer to tutor at Preuss. The impetus for Preuss came in the wake of California’s 1998 ban on affirmative action, which caused UCSD’s minority enrollment to drop a quarter. The university looked to recruit minority students through the traditional methods–faculty visits, fancy websites and…
The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy
The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary, academic center that is dedicated to teaching, research, and community collaborations that foster active citizenship and community leadership in a multicultural, democratic society. Directed by an advisory board composed of college and community representatives, the center oversees three major areas: 1) The Program in Community Action (PICA), 2) Community Learning Course Development, 3) Community Partnerships and Public Policy. The Holleran Center also promotes the development of community learning courses at the College. Community learning takes many forms, including internships, action research, and courses with required service components. The…
Service learning partnership with the Mallett School French Program
In light of the Learning Results in Modern and Classical Languages which mandate second language acquisition from grades K-12 in the State of Maine, UMF embarked on a service learning partnership with Mallett School, to teach French in the elementary grades, and help Mallett school develop and sustain a foreign language curriculum. Several options were considered at the start of the program. French was selected because of local expertise and geographical setting, and also in light of costs involved and ease of running a second language program. Every classroom in each grade is involved, but the program was implemented in…
Resources for Faculty
The Center for Community Service and Learning offers the following resources: * Consultations with individual faculty, schools, and colleges * Faculty development workshops * Curriculum development grants * Inventory of community-based organizations, and assistance in identifying community placements compatible with course learning objectives * Workshops to prepare students for entering the community * Materials on service-learning research * Training for student facilitators * Publications lending library * Complimentary copies of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning * Searchable data-base for community-based research partners * Pocket guide on community-based research * Pocket guide on service-learning and independent study credit Website:…
Urban Communities course
For two decades now, students at Augsburg College have known that Garry Hesser s courses were different. Students who took them weren t asked just to know the material, they were asked to study it in the community. By following a semester of one of Dr. Hesser s courses entitled, Urban Communities, we can draw a picture of a high-quality curricular service-learning experience. In order to learn about urban communities, Professor Hesser tells students on their first day of class, you will use the community as your laboratory. Students are pleased to hear this, many of them having enrolled because…
America Reads Program
In response to President Clinton s America Reads Challenge, The University of Montana has strengthened its commitment to help Missoula schoolchildren become better readers. During the past two years of the program, UM placed more than 30 work-study tutors and 100 college student volunteers in local elementary schools to serve as literacy tutors and provide one-to-one assistance and support for young readers. The program involves a variety of partners on campus and in the community including Volunteer Action Services, the School of Education, Financial Aid, the local school district, and the state Office of Public Instruction. Through their participation, college…
MEd for Experienced Educators, Problem-Based Learning Using Critical Skills
Antioch University New England Our Problem-Based Learning concentration uses the highly regarded Critical Skills Classroom. Since 1986, the Critical Skills program has offered educators a powerful set of learning experiences in support of classroom and school change initiatives through the MEd program as well as via institutes and workshops through the Antioch Center for School Renewal. The Critical Skills Classroom is a comprehensive approach that creatively and effectively integrates four powerful teaching methodologies: collaborative learning experiential learning problem-based learning standards-aligned/ competency-based learning The Critical Skills Classroom is a mindset in which the teacher and the student are co-learners, engaged in…
“Trends in Nursing” students attend “Nursing, the Community and Legislation” seminar
Four students enrolled in Trends in Nursing attended a seminar at the New Jersey State Nurses Association regarding the legislative process. As a result of what they learned from the seminar, the students interest was piqued, motivating them to follow a bill through the legislative process regarding mandatory overtime. Subsequently, they attended a senatorial committee meeting where they witnessed first hand the importance of their participation in the political process, as well as how their support and involvement could make a difference within the community. After reflecting on their experiences, they decided to prepare a document describing this process as…
On the Road From Service-Learning to the Engaged Campus
Over the years, a few faculty and specific programs at PCC have in one way or another connected their course study to the community. Three years ago, however, a grass-roots movement among faculty and staff organized the Service Learning Steering Committee in an attempt to promote the concepts of community-based education within PCC s three comprehensive campuses. With a few passionate faculty and staff members on each campus who believed in the positive impact that Service Learning could have on the lives of our students and the community, the Committee applied for, then received, a small grant that would pay…
PHENND Action Seminar
This seminar, focused on the role of colleges and universities in helping to overcome poverty, is co-chaired by Drs. Ira Harkavy, Caroyln Adams, and Keith Reeves. Currently several subcommittees are being developed to critically examine poverty from a variety of angles, all with “”action”” as the guiding goal. So far, these subcommittees are: Community Action Research Internships Statements about Higher Education’s Responsibility to “”help overcome”” poverty in local communities Concepts, mapping and measurement of economic poverty Concepts, mapping and measurement of schooling and poverty Concepts, mapping and measurement of family structure and poverty Concepts, mapping and measurement of ill health…
Swearer Center for Public Service
Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service considers active community participation and social responsibility to be central concerns of the university’s liberal arts education. Activities include one-day service projects, youth education, mentoring projects, community health initiatives, and language and literacy projects. Students work with special needs populations including immigrants, low-income and minority communities, senior citizens, developmentally disabled, the deaf, and adults in need of basic education. Website
Seeing the Invisible: Experiential Learning in Domestic & Family Violence
Southwestern University – TX President: Jake Schrum Contact Person: Suzanna Pukys Through a grant from the Verizon Foundation, 18 Southwestern University student interns worked full-time for 10 weeks during the summers of 2008 and 2009 for agencies committed to addressing the epidemic of domestic and family violence. Our nonprofit partners included two domestic violence shelters, a forensic interview and counseling center for physically/sexually abused children, a shelter exclusively for children removed from their homes by Child Protective Services, an agency targeting families with a history of violence directly tied to substance abuse, and the victims’ assistance unit of local law…
Office for the Community Agenda: a model of campus support for community engagement
One of the clearest signs that an idea is valued on campus is that it has its own office. Just a few years ago, campuses with designated offices for community service were the exception. Today, they are the rule, with the vast majority of Campus Compact member institutions reporting that they have a centralized office for community service-learning on campus. Some of these centers focus on providing support to student service projects. Others provide support to faculty service-learning efforts. Still others focus on their relationship with the community. The Office for the Community Agenda based at the Maricopa Community Colleges…
The Junior Achievement curriculum: consultants in the classroom from the entire campus community
As an all campus project GateWay Community College faculty, administrators, and professional support staffers teamed GWCC service-learning students to deliver the Junior Achievement curriculum to all K-8 students (24 classes) at our neighboring Crockett Elementary School. This is a first for Arizona where a community college has provided a consultant for every classroom at an elementary school. This is an example of a true community partnership. In Fall 1999, outgoing President Randolph asked the college to identify a project that would involve our “”GateWay Family”” (our entire campus community). About that time, we received a call from the principal of…
The San Diego Dialogue
It started with a community that wanted to know more about itself, a roundtable discussion, and a class of sociology students, standing on the border between San Diego and Tijuana, tapping on the windows of cars to ask the drivers four questions: What is your nation of residence? Why are you crossing the border? How frequently do you cross in a month? For what purposes do you cross the border? The research that the students compiled dispelled a number of common misconceptions about border crossings here, at the most traversed transnational border in the world. Contrary to popular belief, nine…
Connecticut College Program in Community Action
I had wildly underestimated the impact that a college president had to convene and request and engage and inspire. All over our country, we in higher education could do a lot more if we used the moral juice that comes in our food basket and let others have a sip. Claire Gaudiani has good reason to speak. During her presidency at Connecticut College (1988-2001), she was at the helm of a panoply of innovative efforts that placed her in a leadership role in the local, state, and national community. Nationally, Gaudiani used her presidency to be a leading advocate for…
Partnership with other colleges and the Miami-Dade public school system for the America Reads Challenge
The College s Center for Community Involvement plays a key leadership role in the county-wide response to the Department of Education s America Reads Challenge. What makes this such a unique partnership that fosters civic responsibility and civic literacy is the following: The partnership involves the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the University of Miami, Barry University, Florida Memorial University, Florida International University and Miami-Dade Community College. This partnership of K-12 public schools along with private and public higher education institutions is unique in the country. Under the leadership of M-DCC these institutions jointly provide nearly 175 federal work study students…
The Service-Learning Cross-Curricular Emphasis and the “”2+4=Service on Common Ground”” initiative
The mission of the Liberal Arts program at University of Hawaiʻi Kapiʻolani Community College (KCC) to provide broad-based, integrated, cross-curricular general education courses for students who transfer to four-year institutions or embark on career paths, and instill a desire for life-long learning and personal development. In pursuit of this mission, KCC Provost Dr. John Morton engages in numerous campus-community partnerships and builds leadership collaborations with University of Hawai i (UH) Senior Vice-President and Community College Chancellor, Dr. Joyce Tsunoda, Dean of the UH College of Social Science, Dr. Dick Dubanoski, and UH President, Dr. Kenneth Mortimer. In addition, Dr. Morton has…
“Education in a Democratic Society” course
In the fall of 1998, the Department of Elementary Education launched a new curriculum that opened an exciting chapter in the history of American education. The department began in 1995 to create a curriculum that would equip teachers with new tools and new attitudes. Every early childhood and elementary teacher graduating from Ball State, we believe, should be prepared to be a reflective practitioner, a lifelong learner, and an active and thoughtful citizen. EDEL 100, Education in a Democratic Society, offers an initial investigation into teaching and the teaching profession. The purpose of this course is “”to introduce teaching as…
Public policy and social change
A key element of citizenship is the knowledge that work in the community is connected to larger issues of policy and social change. Students enrolled in POLS 320 Problems in State and Local Politics at Valparaiso University assist in the development of a measuring tool which they use to gather and analyze data related to particular public policy issues. The data is then utilized by public planners in Valparaiso, highlighting the connection between the students service and the future policies of their community. From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American…
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