Resources for Faculty

Faculty/Community Partners

• Community-Based Learning Community Partners Manual

Faculty/Students

• Placement Form – Word
• Placement Form – PDF
• Monthly Timesheet – Word
• Monthly Timesheet – PDF
• Contract – Word
• Contract – PDF

Past Community-Based Learning Student Manuals

• Manual – Fall 2005 (Word)*+
• Manual – Fall 2005 (PDF)*
• Manual – Spring 2005 (Word)
• Manual – Spring 2005 (PDF)

Note: Most of the documents above are provided in two different formats:

• Microsoft Word [".doc"]
• Adobe Portable Document Format [".pdf"]

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*These are special editions of the original documents that were printed and distributed to students. A number of blank pages that were used to ensure that forms and other pages printed correctly were included in the original documents and have been removed from these web versions. Please contact us if you would prefer a copy of the original document with extra blank pages included (intended for double-sided printing).

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Campus/Community Partnerships

CIRCLE at the University of Maryland

Course Construction

Course Construction Ideas

Legal Issues

Volunteer Legal Handbook

Listservs

Listing of Listservs

Principles of Good Practice in Combining Service and Learning

• Academic credit is for learning, not for service.
• Do not compromise academic rigor.
• Set learning goals for students.
• Establish criteria for the selection of community service placements.
• Provide educationally sound mechanisms to harvest the community learning.
• Provide supports for students to learn how to harvest community learning.
• Minimize the distinction between the student’s community learning role and the classroom learning role.
• Re-think the faculty instructional role.
• Be prepared for uncertainty and variation in student learning outcomes.
• Maximize the community responsibility orientation of the course.

Howard, J. ed. Praxis I: A Faculty Casebook on Community Service Learning. Ann Arbor, MI: Office of Community Service Learning Press, University of Michigan.

Source: PowerPoint Presentation by Roxana Moayedi

Publication Opportunities

Community Service in the Federal Work-Study Program

e-Volunteerism: The Electronic Journal of the Volunteer Community

Journal of College and Character

MI Community Service Commission: Service-Learning Toolkit

Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning Submission Guidelines

Florida Campus Compact

Reflection

CivicReflection.org

Facilitating Reflection

Using Structured Reflection to Enhance Learning From Service

Reflection in Service-Learning

Research

Eyler, Janet S., Dwight E. Giles, Jr., Christine M. Stenson, and Charlene J. Gray. At A Glance: What We Know About the Effects of Service-Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions, and Communities, 1993-2000, Third Edition. Washington, DC: Corporation for National and Community Service.

National Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Research Directory

Higher Education Research Institute

Service-Learning Basics

http://www.nationalservice.org/

http://www.servicelearning.org/hehome/

http://scholarshipofengagement.org/

Syllabi

http://www.compact.org/syllabi/

Establishing Curricular Connections: Points of Entry