Submit service-learning syllabi to new online database being developed by Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Dear colleagues,
Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is now developing a national, searchable, online database of higher education service-learning syllabi, K-12 lesson plans, and community-based project ideas. I am writing to invite you and your colleagues to submit service-learning syllabi for possible inclusion in this new resource.
Service-learning syllabi are welcome from any accredited U.S. college or university, for courses in any academic department or program and at any level of higher education (undergraduate or graduate). Courses need not have been supported by a Learn and Serve America grant in order to be eligible for inclusion, although we expect many syllabi will come from past and current Learn and Serve America grantees. Staff from Campus Compact, the Clearinghouse’s Higher Education Program Advisor, will review all submissions according to four criteria of quality in service-learning: engagement, reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination (see http://www.compact.org/syllabi/ for details). All syllabi determined to meet these criteria will be publicly available on both the Clearinghouse’s and Campus Compact’s websites.
In addition to syllabi from individual courses, we welcome information about more extensive civic and community engagement opportunities that involve multiple service-learning courses or other intentional connections between students’ academic experiences and engagement (e.g., minors, certificates, honors/scholars programs, core curricula requirements).
Please submit syllabi and other materials as Word documents attached to emails to jplaut@compact.org; please also download, print, and sign the Permissions Form available at http://www.compact.org/syllabi/ and mail it to Julie Plaut at Campus Compact, Brown University Box 1975, Providence, RI 02912. We look forward to showcasing your good work and demonstrating the rich variety of high-quality service-learning taking place at colleges and universities across the country. Thanks in advance for sharing the materials that allow us to do so! Of course, you’re also more than welcome to contact me with any questions and to share this invitation with your colleagues.
Best wishes,
Julie
Julie L. Plaut, Ph.D.
Program Manager for Academic Initiatives, Campus Compact
Higher Education Program Advisor, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
401-867-3921
jplaut@compact.org
www.compact.org
www.servicelearning.org
