Motivation and service

In understanding the meaning of community service, service learning, and civic engagement we also understand how they are interconnected. Civic engagement is motivated by the need to improve society as a whole. Civic service extends beyond volunteerism and other areas of community service or service learning

Initiating and Sustaining Partnerships Handout

Initiating & Sustaining Community-Academic Partnerships Erin Burke Brown, Ph.D., Director, ASPiRE This workshop presents “5 Simple Steps” for initiating and sustaining community-academic partnerships. Participants will move through the 5 steps to consider the unique aspects of community-academic partnerships, the importance of deliberate and intentional conversations to find mutual benefit, and knowing when/if to terminate the partnership

服務研習通訊第七期 Office of Service-Learning Newsletters, Volume 7

服務研習之旅：學生力量 今期通訊以「服務研習之旅：學生力量」為主題，展示出我們致力營造以學生為本，以及發展全人質素的學習環境。 Service-Learning Journey: Students\u27 Power With the theme of “Journey of Service-Learning: Students’ Power”, we highlight how we devote to fostering student-oriented learning and whole-person development in this issue.https://commons.ln.edu.hk/osl_newsletters/1010/thumbnail.jp

Self-Prep Checklist Handout

Initiating & Sustaining Community-Academic Partnerships Erin Burke Brown, Ph.D., Director, ASPiRE This workshop presents “5 Simple Steps” for initiating and sustaining community-academic partnerships. Participants will move through the 5 steps to consider the unique aspects of community-academic partnerships, the importance of deliberate and intentional conversations to find mutual benefit, and knowing when/if to terminate the partnership

Initiating and Sustaining Partnerships Workshop Agenda

Initiating & Sustaining Community-Academic Partnerships Erin Burke Brown, Ph.D., Director, ASPiRE This workshop presents “5 Simple Steps” for initiating and sustaining community-academic partnerships. Participants will move through the 5 steps to consider the unique aspects of community-academic partnerships, the importance of deliberate and intentional conversations to find mutual benefit, and knowing when/if to terminate the partnership

Community engagement at Roger Williams University: community service - service learning - civic engagement

Service to the local community has become a part of the college tradition as more campuses incorporate service into their curricular and co-curricular cultures. Roger Williams University parallels this trend. Service has evolved from “a nice thing to do” to an important element in our academic and co-curricular culture. We have outgrown the blanket term “service” and can place campus-wide service activities in three distinct categories: community service, service learning, and civic engagement. While based on the common goal of promoting active citizenship, each category contains distinct experiences with distinct learning outcomes

RWU Stay Break Part II: Advocating for the State’s Food Insecure Residents

Students apply their hands-on lessons in food insecurity issues to make an advocacy pitch to state legislators

From A Service-Learning to A Social-Change Model

Tutor education courses that prepare students to serve as peer writing consultants often include service learning; a typical servicelearning tutor education course involves sending students to tutor in local schools, usually in underserved neighborhoods. Existing writing center scholarship on service learning tends to overlook the limitations of this model. This article advances a radically different approach for tutor education where the course acts as an incubator for social change on campus. Informed by the principles advanced by the critical service learning movement, the course described here invites students to design and implement campus-based community building projects. Ultimately, this article demonstrates that a course focused on community building, rather than tutoring theory and strategies, can effectively prepare students to serve as peer writing consultants while imparting a heightened awareness of social inequities and a deep investment in the campus community.University Writing Cente