Related Links

Massachusetts Campus Compact, http://ase.tufts.edu/macc/default.htm
The Massachusetts Campus Compact is an organization of higher-education institutions that collaborate on promoting service as a critical component of higher education. Bridgewater State College is a member. MACC provides conferences and a website with information helpful for faculty developing service learning activities, including a sampling of course syllabi.

Office of Academic Service Learning at Eastern Michigan University, http://www.asl.emich.edu/
This website contains a wealth of information on resources, examples, and outcomes of academic service learning.

National Service Learning Clearinghouse, http://www.servicelearning.org/
The NSLC website provides news, information, and starter kits for service learning in higher education and K-12.

Educators’ Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation, http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/37/
This 39-page booklet (in pdf format) provides faculty with the tools to:
-- Evaluate how effectively a service learning program meets its objectives;
-- Diagnose which factors contribute to successful or unsuccessful outcomes of service learning; and
-- Provide guidance for improvement.

The Big Dummy’s Guide to Service Learning at Florida International University, http://www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/bigdummy.html
Twenty-seven simple answers to questions on Faculty, Programmatic, Student, Administrative, & Non-Profit Issues in academic service learning. Includes answers to four faculty-originated questions:
#1 What is service learning? What are the goals of service-learning?
#2 How is service learning different from community service, internships, cooperative education, etc.?
#3 What about liability?
#4 What is the faculty's role? What is the Center's role? Who does what?

Learning in Deed, http://learningindeed.org/index.html
Launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 1998, Learning in Deed is a national initiative to engage more young people in service to others as part of their academic life. The four components of the initiative are: Policy and Practice Demonstration Projects, a National Commission on Service-Learning, a K-12 Service-Learning Leadership Network, and a Research Network.

Last Modified: October 31, 2005