Resources

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

From nonprofits to neighbors: Exploring the locus of campus-community partnerships

Author: Carmine Perrotti (Providence College)

Service learning and community engagement (SLCE) have become near ubiquitous across U.S. higher education. While much scholarship has demonstrated positive student learning outcomes of SLCE, there has been unequal consideration towards understanding the experiences of communities involved. 

Faculty Service-learning Guidebook: Enacting Equity-centered Teaching, Partnerships, and Scholarship. Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Cress, C. M., Stokamer, S. T., Van Cleave, T. J., & Kaufman, J. P. (2022).

Open access for community partners, impactful outputs for scholars: Leveraging scholarly communication movements to enhance reciprocity in community based research

Authors: Olivia Ivey  (American University)  , Rachel Borchardt  (American University)

Campus Compact Guidebooks

Anti-Racist Community Engagement Principles

Author: Collaboratory for Health Justice

The School of Public Health’s Collaboratory for Health Justice has developed the following principles in an effort to institutionalize best practices around community engaged work. In order to align our principles with the goal to achieve health equity, we must be explicit about our commitment to dismantling structural inequality in the form of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, ageism, classism, and xenophobia among others. These principles thus envision dismantling these structural barriers as core components to meaningful community engagement.

Designing community-based courses: A guide for instructors to develop community partnerships and create public scholarship courses

Author: Akin, S.; Avila-Lynn, C.; Rice, K.

This handbook from UC Berkeley’s Public Service Center is a guide for faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and staff to create, implement, or strengthen engaged scholarship courses. The handbook contains six sections: Engaged Public Scholarship, Building Campus-Community Partnerships, Developing Engaged Scholarship Courses, Supporting Student Engagement with the Community, Deepening the Learning with Reflection, Developing Evaluation and Assessment for Engaged Scholarship.

Service Learning Resources for Chemistry Faculty

Explore this ACS-created website for developing or improving a service learning program in chemistry.

Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical sciences, service-learning projects can vary greatly depending on community needs and an instructor’s curriculum. Projects can include lead testing, water clean-up, or classroom assistance in an elementary school.

Service-Learning in Engineering: A Resource Guidebook

Author: Oakes, W.

Publisher: Campus Compact

This guidebook grew out of a faculty development series sponsored by Campus Compact with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It has been used with success as a reference in a series of faculty workshops on service-learning in engineering held across the country.

Critical Service-Learning Reflection Tool

Author: et al.; Stith, M.

The Critical Service-Learning Reflection Tool  is a design and planning instrument developed for experiential education and service-learning practitioners with various levels of familiarity with critical theory. The tool is intended to support all collaborators involved in service-learning (e.g., instructors , students , staff, and community members) in reflecting critically and setting actionable goals that move their practices towards justice.

Service-Learning Action Plan

A guide for K-12 service-learning projects

Service-Learning Handbook for Educators

A Service-Learning guide for K-12 educators.

Campus Compact Resources

Community engagement as community development: Making the case for multilateral, collaborative, equity-focused campus-community partnerships

Author: Hurd, C.A.; Stanton, T.K.

Publisher: Community Development

In this essay, the authors offer a framework for a community development-focused, multilateral, sustainable justice-oriented service-learning and community engagement (SLCE); exploring what it is, why it is needed, how it looks different from other existing and emerging trends in SLCE, and how they believe it would transform the ways in which institutions of higher education (IHEs) think about and approach both community partnership-building and student learning in community contexts. 

Community Based Research: Selected Readings

A curated list of contemporary readings in community-based research that may be useful for scholar-practitioners teaching CBR courses or defining/refining their own engaged praxis.

Author: Hurd, C.A.

A Select Bibliography of Readings on Community-Based Research

Curated by: Clayton Hurd, Director of Community Engaged Research, Stanford University