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- Levels of Engagement
- There are different types of student engagement within an academic setting. Activities may be categorized based on their purpose, desired outcomes and level of complexity based on their purpose. This is a general overview of these categories and examples.
- Models of Service Learning
- Service-learning can be integrated into all disciplines, though the type of program varies. Course level, class size, student demographics, and learning objectives will determine the style of service learning that may be appropriate. This is a general overview of the models of service learning.
- Benefits and Expectations
- Learning through engagement is an innovative teaching methodology. This is a general overview of benefits and expectations that don't only benefit you but your students and the community that surrounds us.
- Steps to Integrate Service-Learning into your Curriculum
- Incorporating service-learning into a course requires thoughtful pre-planning and thorough follow-up. Here is a list of steps that can help you integrate service-learning into your curriculum.
- Faculty Syllabi
- Not sure how to incorporate service-learning into your course? Here are a few samples of faculty syllabi who have incorporated service-learning.
- Things to Consider when Designing your Course
- This is a list of questions to consider while developing the course and the service-learning activity for your course.
- Service Learning Course Development Form
- The goal is to blend service and learning so that the service reinforces, improves and strengthens the learning, and the learning reinforces, improves and strengthens the service. The integration of service-learning, at its best, produces a greater impact than either the service or the classroom learning could have produced separately. Use this form to assist you in mapping out the service-learning component in your course(s).
- Reflection Activities and Questions
- This is a list of effective reflection activities and questions to practice with your class once you integrate service-learning in your curriculum.
- Boyer, Ernest. 1990. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- John Braxton, et al. 2002. Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship through Boyer’s Four Domains. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (NOTE: Read everything Ernest Boyer, the pioneer who conceptualized ‘engagement’ in faculty teaching and research, and higher ed institutions)
- Brown, Michael Jacoby. 2006. Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World. (Arlington, MASS: Longhaul Press)
- Ehrlich, Thomas, ed. 2000. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education. Phoenix: Oryx Press.
- Green, Gary Paul and Anna Haines. 2002. Asset Building & Community Development. Thousand Oakes: Sage.
- Lappe, Frances Moore and Martin Du Bois. 1994. The Quickening of America: Rebuilding our Nation, Remaking our Lives. San Francisco: Jossey-Bassey (dated, but still a gem)
- Macedo, Stephen et al. 2005. Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
- Naples Nancy A. and Karen Bojar, 2002. Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field. NY: Routledge.
- Rhodes, R. A. and J. P. K. Howard, co-editors. 1998. Academic Service Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection. San Francisco: Simon & Shuster.
- Shultz, Jim. 2002. The Democracy Owners’ Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
- Staudt, Kathleen and Irasema Coronado. 2002. Fronteras no Más: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border. NY: Palgrave USA. (organizations and nonprofits in the region)
- Stoecker, Randy. 2005. Research Methods for Community Change. Thousand Oakes: Sage.
- Zlotkowski, Edward, ed. 1998. Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing.
- Kathleen Staudt* and Diana Natalicio**
*Political Science Professor and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement
**President of The University of Texas at El Paso
Title: "Engaged Universities: Border Vantage Points on Institutionalization"
Published in: Metropolitan Universities Journal, Vol 17.1
Director of the Student Development Center and Women's Resource Center
Title: "New learning and teaching from where you've been: The global intercultural experience for
undergraduates."
Published in: New Directions for Teaching and Learning 2007(111): 55-62.
Political Science Professor and Director of the Center for Civic Engagement
Title: "Service learning and you"
Published in: The Prospector
Giving of their hearts
- Center for Civic Engagement builds collaborative spirit...
Making a Difference
- Service learning, community engagement key to producing civic-minded citizens...
Student attends convention
- Julie Cruz,a junior political science major and intern of the Center for Civic Engagement, casted her vote as a delegate in the Democratic Convention in Austin...
Creating change through leadership
- UTEP students Ruben J. Vogt (Center for Civic Engagement Alum) and Danielle Escontrias have been among the select few honored as Truman Scholars...
UTEP center brings together students, faculty and nonprofits
- Center for Civic Engagement mission and accomplishments
Grooming future philanthropists? Better start young
- Center for Civic Engagement gives tips on nonprofit and volunteers work best together...
The ABCs of Service-Learning
- Findings on service learning and its impact on the community and classroom...
Beyond the Canned Food Drive
- Why educators are turning to service-learning as a means of charity...
Service Learning and You
- Some insight on the Center for Civic Engagement from Kathleen Staudt...
Storytelling with Paydirt Pete
- Featuring Just Read, a program of the Center for Civic Engagement...
Calling the Question: Is Higher Education Ready to Commit to Community Engagement?
- A statement on behalf of Wingspread Conference Participants about engagement.
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