Useful Information for Faculty Members

I. Miscellaneous important and helpful advice:

A. A Smart Start for Service-Learning
B. A Service-Learning Code of Ethics
C. Ideas about Reflection

II. Information on rationale for Service-Learning, assessment of effectiveness, etc.

A. Implementation, rationale, concerns. Some of these articles are critical of the service-learning movement; some are faith-based, others grounded in the communitarian movement. All are available online.

1. Robert G. Bringle & Julie A. Hatcher, Implementing Service Learning In Higher Education
2. Susan A. Ostrander,Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses
3. John Saltmarsh, Ethics, Reflection, Purpose, and Compassion: Community Service Learning
4. Ira Harkavy, Lee Benson, De-Platonizing and Democratizing Education as the Bases of Service Learning
5. Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer, In the Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning pdf
6. John W. Eby, Why Service-Learning is Bad pdf
7. Donna M. Bickford and Nedra Reynolds, Activism and Service-Learning: Reframing Volunteerism as Acts of Dissent pdf
8. Patricia Hutchinson, Service Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
9. Harry C. Boyte and James Farr, The Work of Citizenship and the Problem of Service-Learning pdf
10. Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari, Renewing the Democratic Spirit in American Colleges and Universities: Higher Education as Public Work pdf
11. The Futures Project, Correcting Course: How We Can Restore the Ideals of Pulic Higher Education in a Market-Driven Era pdf
12. Patrick Byrne, Paradigms of Justice and Love
13. John Saltmarsh, The Civic Promise of Service Learning
14. Edward G. Rozycki, Romantics, Idealists and True Service Learning
15. Mabel G. Freeman, Student Involvement Through Service-Learning Opportunities pdf

B. Assessment reports

1. Janet S. Eyler, et. al. At a Glance: What We Know About the Effects of Service-Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, 1993-2000 pdf
2. Tracy Citeroni, et. al., From Classroom to Community: A Report from the TIP Seminar on Service-Learning
3. Alexander W. Astin, et. al., How Service Learning Affects Students pdf
4. Alexander W. Astin, et. al., Long-term Effects of Volunteerism During the Undergraduate Years
5. Linda Sax, Citizenship and Spirituality Among College Students: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Headed?
6. Maryann J. Gray, Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education: Summary Report pdf
7. The Evidence Base for Service-Learning in Higher Education

III. Discussions of how service-learning fits with different disciplines; sample syllabi for courses incorporating service-learning

A. Discussions and Applications

1. Edward Zlotkowski, Mapping New Terrain: Service-Learning Across the Disciplines pdf
2. 101 Ideas for Combining Service With Learning (sorted by discipline)
3. Patricia Clarke, Financial Literacy for an Underserved Market: A Service-Learning Project for the Introductory Finance Course
4. Lisa S. Mastrangelo, Integrating Writing, Academic Discourses, and Service Learning: Project Renaissance and School/College Literacy Collaborations
5. Marshall Welch, The Development and Assessment of a Service-Learning Course on Service-Politics and Civic Engagement pdf
6. Lee Bollinger, Communicative Benefits in a Service Learning Project: How a Senior Public-Relations Class Provided a Campaign and Five-Year Plan for a Nonprofit pdf
7. Paul Fitzgerald, Doing Theology in the City
8. Robert J. Anderson, Antigone Meets the Streets: Service Learning in a Classic Context
9. Service-Learning Study Abroad pdf
10. Service-Learning Alternative Breaks
11. Alice Weldon and Greta Trautmann, Spanish and Service-Learning: Pedagogy and Praxis pdf
12. Alice Weldon and Robert L. Sigmon, Avoiding Trial and Error: Faculty Learning in Spanish Service-Learning Projects pdf
13. Brock Haussamen, Service-Learning and First-Year Composition pdf

B. Sample Syllabi

1. Sarah Gordon and Rob Murray, Service-Learning: Expanding Your Duke Education Beyond the Classroom
2. Rebecca Bruce and Susan Reiser, CSCI/MMAS 179, 3d Modeling and the Internet
3. Lorena Russell, Language 120
4. Charles McKnight Humanities 414
5. Kathie Garbe, HWP 471: Service Learning in School Health Education pdf
6. Over 300 Exemplary Service-Learning Syllabi from CAMPUS COMPACT

IV. More resources, including bibliography

A. Sites and organizations in Service-Learning

1. National Service Learning Clearinghouse
2. Student Environmental Action Coalition
3. Campus Compact
4. Educators for Community Engagement
5. Learn and Serve America
6. National Society for Experiential Education
7. University of Minnesota, Guide to Service-Learning

B. Bibliography

1. Stearns Center (DePaul U) Center for Community-Based Service Learning and Community Service Studies Library Bibliography
2. Resources from Campus Compact