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Service-Learning

Initiatives: Service-Learning

Campus Compact has been a leader in the service-learning movement since its inception. Service-learning incorporates community work into the curriculum, giving students real-world learning experiences that enhance their academic learning while providing a tangible benefit for the community. Campus Compact’s research, online tools, and other initiatives help campuses create effective service-learning programs that meet academic and service goals.

  • Advanced Service-Learning Toolkit
    “Strategies for Creating an Engaged Campus” — A toolkit for academic leaders who wish to deepen the civic education of their students and to increase the engagement of their institutions
  • Indicators of Engagement
    This multiyear research project, designed to help campuses deepen their civic and community engagement work, has identified models and successful practices among two-year colleges, minority-serving institutions, and comprehensive universities.
  • Integrating Service with Academic Study

    A multi-year Campus Compact project to develop service that is integrally connected to course content in a wide variety of disciplines.

  • Reflection Resource
    Guidance for educators on using structured reflection to enhance the learning from service experiences.
  • Program Models
    Our searchable database of hundreds of program models from campuses across the spectrum of higher education, indexed by type of program.
  • Service-Learning Syllabi
    Our searchable database of hundreds of service-learning syllabi, spanning dozens of disciplines.e a

In addition to the above, Campus Compact provides has numerous other Service-Learning Resources in many other areas.

The Swearer Award has provided me with such an incredible venue for advocacy. At Penn, I've had the chance to speak to faculty, students, and alumni who are interested more than ever in supporting the civic mission of higher education."

-Mei Elansary, University of Pennsylvania, recipient of Campus Compact's Swearer Student Humanitarian Award