Service-Learning Resources
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 service-learning resources help students, faculty members, service-learning staff, and others create strong programs across academic disciplines.
Advanced Service-Learning Toolkit
Engaged Department Toolkit
The Engaged Department Toolkit (and Supplemental CD-ROM) is a handbook designed to help departments develop strategies for including community-based work in their teaching and scholarship, making community-based experiences a standard expectation for majors, and encouraging civic engagement and progressive change at the departmental level.
Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit
At a Glance 
Campus Compact Consulting Corps
Campus Compact Publications: Service-Learning
Colleges with a Conscience
From Princeton Review with assistance from Campus Compact.
Documenting Service and Service Learning in Higher Education
A compilation of general information on documenting service and service-learning in higher education from California Campus Compact.
Essential Service-Learning Resources Guide
Examples of Service-Learning Office Structure
Service-learning office structure varies greatly from campus to campus. This link provides job descriptions, human resource information, and summarizes reporting structures of service-learning offices.
How Higher Education Is Integrating Diversity and Service Learning: Findings from Four Case Studies
With the generous support of the James Irvine Foundation, California Campus Compact conducted a research study (conducted by Dr. Lori Vogelgesang) exploring how independent colleges and universities were integrating service learning and diversity and identified some "best practices."
Reflection Resource
Risk Management
Service-Learning Risk Management Resources (Microsoft Word Document) courtesy of Theresa Cuisman, Colorado Campus Compact
Service-Learning and Retention
A Preliminary Overview of the Literature Linking Service-Learning and Retention
See also: Research Brief: The Positive Impact of Service-Learning on College Student Retention 144K
Service-Learning in the Disciplines (AAHE)
Service-Learning Syllabi
More than 300 service-learning syllabi covering a wide range of disciplines.
Successful Service-Learning Programs
Experienced leaders share how they have championed successful service-learning programs that have enriched their campuses and renewed their communities.
The Impact of Service-Learning: A Review of Current Research
A research brief from Learn and Serve analyzing the results of service-learning.
The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Sub-categories:
- Publishing Outlets for Service-Learning and Community-Based Research (48)
Much of the content on this page was compiled by: Nick Cutforth, University of Denver, March 2005. Acknowledgement: Thanks to the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (www.ccph.info) for the initial idea for this document.
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