Committee on Service and Service Learning
Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
Service Learning courses incorporate the following basic principles (Heffernan, 2002):
Engagement is fostered through service projects with a community partner.
Reflection on the experience of working on the community project takes place academically in the classroom and personally in journals, essays or blogs.
Reciprocity is promoted by addressing real community needs.
Dissemination means that previous courses serve as models of best practices for new courses.
for Further Information contact Greg Garvey, Chair of the Service Learning Committee
582-8389
or Vincent Contrucci, Director of Community Service
582-5351
Resources
The Service Learning Website contains baseline standards for service learning courses, FAQs, How Do We Do It? and more.
National Service Learning Clearing House
http://www.servicelearning.org/welcome_to_service-learning/index.php
Kerrissa Heffernan, EdD, Foundations of Service \learning |Curricula, (2002), published by Campus Compact, the national organization of colleges and universities committed to SL.