Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education JB - Anker

Service-learning offers college students valuable hands-on learning experiences as they unite with their community in cooperative service efforts. Students and professors who participate in service-learning engage in authentic problem definition and problem solving in powerful applications of what they have discussed in the classroom.

In this book, experienced leaders share how they have championed successful service-learning programs that have enriched their campuses and renewed their communities. Each chapter provides a personal account of how these directors of service-learning projects have gained the acceptance and resources to design programs that foster a lifelong student commitment to community service and learning.

Contents include: The evolution of ten successful service-learning programs across a range of institution types: Augsburg College, Bates College, Bentley College, Brevard Community College, North Carolina Central University, Portland State University, Providence College, Santa Clara University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Utah An overview of each program's internal operations Strategies, rationales, and priorities in developing successful programs Service-learning and comprehensive institutional reform The most common issues facing service-learning programs Development of a service-learning major Creating effective, rigorous, academically rich service-learning courses across the curriculum A review of important community collaborations The relationship between service-learning and extracurricular volunteer work Earning formal recognition of service-learning within the promotion and tenure process Appendices that include practical sample documents for designing or enhancing service-learning programs Chapters contributed by: Richard M.

Battistoni, Providence College Lee Benson, University of Pennsylvania James Carignan, Bates College Amy Driscoll, Portland State University Irene S. Fisher, University of Utah Roger K. Henry, Brevard Community College Ira Harkavy, University of Pennsylvania Garry Hesser, Augsburg College Beverly W. Jones, North Carolina Central University William J.

Wood, Santa Clara University Edward Zlotkowski, Bentley College