Planning Guides

Guide for Creating a Campus-Wide Community Service Center

Handouts

• Chapter from Bonner Directors Handbook: Campus-Wide Service Organizational Structure (pdf)
• Generic Model for Campus-Wide Center (pdf)
• Placement Model vs. Collaborative Problem-Solving Model (pdf)

Sample Organization Charts

• Oberlin College's Center for Service & Learning (pdf)

Resources

• Fact Sheet: Institutional Structures for Service-Learning In Higher Education
• Campus Compact:
  • Program Models: Community Service Centers - Establishing And Maintaining
  • Program Models :: Community Service Centers - Locations
  • Program Models :: Centers for Civic Engagement
  • Various Publications, including:
    • Establishing and Sustaining an Office of Community Service. This comprehensive guide offers community service directors a wealth of information and models for creating and sustaining a campus community service office. Topics include student recruitment and training, liability and risk management, program assessment, funding, and even office organization and management. This hands-on guide also contains an extensive appendix with sample forms, including surveys and assessment tools, organization charts, job descriptions, application forms, budgets, service-learning plans, memos, progress reports, and more. 2000, 198 pages.