ACADEMIC CONNECTIONS:
RESOURCE HANDBOOK FOR STUDENTS

Resources

Definitions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_learning

http://www.servicelearning.org/welcome_to_service-learning/service-learning_is/index.php

http://dpi.wi.gov/fscp/slhmpage.html

http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SL_index

Getting Started

Kendall, Jane C. et al. Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service Volume I. Raleigh, NC: 1990. EXCELLENTJ

Connolly, Kathleen and Lieberman Tanya Mariko. Education and Action: A Guide to
Integrating Classrooms and Communities. United States: 1992.

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Summer 2003.

Strand, Kerry et al. Community-Based Research and Higher Education. San Francisco: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.

http://www.goodcharacter.com/SERVICE/service.html

http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/hot_topics/getting_started/index.php

Examples of Service Learning in Existence

Campus Compact

Bucknell College

University of Missouri - Columbia

Bridgewater State College

National Youth Leadership Council's Report on Service-Learning in K-12 Education

Resources to Present to Teachers and Faculty

Idealist.org has a resource page of ways to present service learning to teachers and faculty.

Service Plan Resource Ideas

You may find helpful resources for planning larger scale projects with the following organizations:

Habitat for Humanity

Second Harvest

Volunteer Match

Network for Good

CityCares

Idealist.org

Making the Case

• The Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement, housed in the Association of American Colleges and Universities, has a paper entitled: Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College (2005). Download the pdf version.
• Additional resources available at www.aacu.org

The following articles may be helpful:

• Elisa S. Abes, Golden Jackson, and Susan R. Jones, "Factors that
  Motivate and Deter Faculty Use of Service Learning," Michigan Journal of
  Community Service Learning, Fall 2002, Volume 9, #1, pp. 5-17.
• Valerie C. McKay and Patricia D. Rozee, "Characteristics of Faculty Who
  Adopt Community Service Learning Pedagogy," Michigan Journal of
  Community Service Learning, Spring 2004, Volume 10, #2, pp. 21-33.
• Research at a Glance: What we Know about the Effects of Service-Learning
  on Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, 1993-1999, by Janet
  Eyler, Dwight E. Giles, Jr. and Charlene J. Gray, in Introduction to
  Service-Learning: Toolkit (Providence, RI, Campus Compact, 1999), pp.
  19-22.