Campus Centers and Departments
Bentley
College Service Learning Center
The Bentley Service-Learning Center (BSLC) was created
in fall 1990 to establish connections between business and
community interests and to add depth to the education of business
students. Students from a variety of majors participate in
service learning course projects and internships throughout
the arts and sciences and business curricula. Several courses
in business and in the liberal arts offer service-learning
projects to foster student leadership development, civic participation,
appreciation of human diversity, social awareness, and career
preparation.
Citizenship
and Service Education (CASE), Rutgers University
Begun in 1988, the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education
(CASE) program serves as a national model for integrating
service and learning across the undergraduate curriculum.
CASE courses, which are taught across the curriculum, combine
an academically rigorous 3 credit classroom course with a
1 credit service-learning placement directly related to the
subject matter of the course. The courses require students
to do 40 hours of community service and help to forge a link
between service and learning, and between the classroom and
the real world. CASE includes programs on each of Rutgers
three campuses (Camden, New Brunswick and Newark), summer
session course offerings, and international service programs.
The
Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College
The Feinstein Institute for Public Service works with
Providence College to develop an academic program in public
and community service; the Institute's principles and goals
can help guide those who are just beginning or seek to strengthen
their service learning program. Established in 1993, The Feinstein
Institute integrates community service with academic study.
At the core of the Institute are the major and minor in Public
and Community Service Studies at Providence College. Service-learning
is integrated into the academic curriculum, meets actual community
needs, and provides structured time for students to think,
talk and write about what they are doing in their service
experiences. In addition to the major and minor, the Feinstein
Institute supports service learning courses in other departments
across campus from Political Science, to English, to Sociology
and Art.
University of North Carolina’s Public Service Scholar Program
The Public Service Scholars Program helps UNC students to cultivate the commitment and skills to serve long after they graduate. It not only connects students who care about similar issues with one another, guides participants in training that can make their service more effective but also links their coursework to service as well. When these students perform public service, they improve the quality of life for people in the community, state and beyond, while also helping Carolina fulfill its responsibility as the nation’s first public university.
The Haas Center for Public Service, Standford University
Established in 1985, the Haas Center for Public Service represents Standford University's institutional commitment to education for civic responsibility. The center includes a variety of student service organizations and University programs, including a Public Service Opportunities Clearinghouse, the Stanford Volunteer Network, the Community Service Writing Project, the Ravenswood Stanford Tutoring Program, the East Palo Alto Stanford Summer Academy, and Upward Bound. Through the Center's "study=service connections" initiative, staff work with faculty and students to connect service and study across the curriculum in 40 different courses.
Hobart
and William Smith Colleges Service Learning
Service learning—community service connected to academics—is
an integral part of Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ view
of a liberal arts education. At HWS, what’s discussed in the
classroom is applied to the "real world." An extra dimension
is added when students see economic theory played out in a
local program, when sociological hypotheses crystallize before
their eyes through the work of community agencies.
Edward Ginsberg
Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan
The Center for Community Service and Learning, recently
renamed in honor of a distinguished alumnus, is now entitled
The Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.
The Ginsberg Center is home to multiple community learning
programs, including Academic Service Learning, America Reads
Tutoring Corps, Michigan Community Service Corps, Michigan
Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program, Project Community, and Project
SERVE. The Ginsberg Center also houses the OCSL Press which
produces the annual Michigan Journal of Community Service
Learning. Through these programs and publications, the Ginsberg
Center hopes to engage students, faculty members, university
staff, and community partners in a process which combines
community service and academic learning in order to promote
civic participation, build community capacity, and enhance
the educational process.
University
of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies
The University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies
has as its primary mission to study national and state governmental
and political concerns with an eye towards practical projects
that benefit and educate the public. The Center serves
as a non-partisan resource for scholars, reporters, officeholders
and the general public on issues central to our system of
government. At the Center for Governmental Studies,
scholars, practitioners and pundits work together to fashion
solutions to the challenges that imperil politics in America
and to bridge the ever-widening gap between academe and real-world
politics.
The
Arts of Citizenship Program, University of Michigan
The Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan
establishes connections between the university and the larger
community in the arts and humanities to enrich both civic
and community life and university research, teaching, and
creative expression. The Arts of Citizenship runs a variety
of programs, including community partnerships in which faculty
and students work with schools, cultural institutions, public
agencies, and grassroots groups; forums with artists, intellectuals,
and cultural advocates; experimental teaching that mixes academic
study with practical projects; and support for innovative
research and creative work that speak to both academic and
public audiences. The web site, in addition to providing access
to Arts of Citizenship projects, includes a link to a lecture
by the program's director, David Scobey, "Putting
the Academy in Its Place: Building Bridges Between the University
and the Community."
Imagining America:
Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
is a national consortium of colleges, universities, and cultural
institutions that supports the civic work of university artists,
humanists, and designers. The program is developing a range
of programs to build partnerships between faculty scholars
and artists and schoolteachers, museum professionals, public
agencies, and grass-roots community groups. Imagining America
plans to offer three initial funding programs linked by annual
conferences, workshops, newsletters, and the Internet: project
and program grants for university-public partnerships; support
for communities seeking residencies for faculty scholars and
artists; and major artists' residencies for creating new work
about the world shared by the academy and the community. The
core grant program for collaborative work by faculty and community
cultural leaders will be administered by the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation. Imagining America, which is
housed at the University of Michigan, began in March 1999
at a White House conference co-sponsored by the University
of Michigan, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,
and the White House Millennium Council.
The Center for
Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota
The Center for Democracy and Citizenship is a research
center at the Hubert H.Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, University
of Minnesota. The Center grows from Project Public Life,
a field-testing project begun by Harry C. Boyte, Harlan Cleveland,
and colleagues in the late 1980s, that worked to restore the
practice of "public life" to systems where it had been eroded,
teaching citizens that they are powerful actors in public
problem solving. The Center for Democracy and Citizenship
runs various projects to renew the civic mission of public
organizations through creating partnerships with organizations
concerned about the revitalization of their public cultures
and purposes. The Civic Mission Project focuses on renewing
the civic mission in higher education. Supported by a grant
from the Kellogg Foundation and drawing on work with partners
such as the College of St. Catherine as well as the University
of Minnesota, the Center for Democracy and Citizenship is
publishing a history of the civic mission of land grant institutions
and mapping important developments.
San Francisco
Urban Institute
The San Francisco Urban Institute is a non-profit research
and action project of San Francisco State University.
Founded in 1993 by a coalition of university and civic leaders,
SFUI has sponsored a wide range of policy initiatives, collaborative
projects, and analytic studies. Projects of the Institute
address the such issues as economic development, workforce
preparation, urban environmental restoration, inner-city education
and health, business and community development.
AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.
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