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| From the Editors: |
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NSLC is delighted to announce that Campus Compact has joined the team of NSLC Program Advisors as Advisor for the Higher Education sector. Campus Compact President, Maureen Curley, and Julie Plaut, head of Campus Compact’s national academic initiatives will be leading this work. Learn more about them in our Program Advisor Spotlight. For information on all of our Program Advisors, visit: http://www.servicelearning.org/about_us/prog_advisors/index.php.
With President’s Day next week and Super Tuesday just behind us, this month NSLC is featuring resources on service-learning and civic education and citizenship in Featured Library Resources. For even more resources on this topic, take a look at NSLC’s Hot Topics on Citizenship and Civic Engagement and see where they can take you and your students!
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/hot_topics/citizenship/index.php
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/hot_topics/civic_engagement/index.php
This month, we’re presenting three new kinds of service-learning electronic tools to help you stay up-to-date on service-learning resources and events. Our new mini Fact Sheets will allow you to stay up on new service-learning research more quickly; RSS feeds will help you learn about new service-learning publications every month; and the NSLC podcast will let you catch service-learning teleconferences, webinars, and other audio events from your mp3 player. Read about all three new tools under New from NSLC.
And, don’t forget that NSLC is more than a virtual warehouse of service-learning information and resources. We also have a physical library (the nation’s largest on service-learning) located in beautiful Scotts Valley, in the Bay Area of California. If you’re planning to be in the area, contact us at info@servicelearning.org to plan a visit or come to our open house February 27, 2008 from 11-6 PST. We’d love to see you!
Finally, many thanks to those of you who completed NSLC’s annual user assessment. We very much appreciate your feedback and will be using it to develop new resources and services over the coming months. If you didn’t have a chance to respond, we’ve held the survey open for one more week (until this Friday 2/15/08). Please make your voice heard: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3AIl_2bC8xIfCvKw2URI2n1g_3d_3d.
Barbara and Liberty
Barbara Holland, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Director
Liberty Smith, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Program Manager |
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| News: |
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528 Colleges Make The President's Honor Roll!
 Six colleges and universities today received presidential recognition for extraordinary contributions to service in their communities in the second annual President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Liz Seale, Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, announced the awards Monday, February 11 at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education.
Presidential Awards for General Community Service
Presidential Awards for Service to Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances
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2008 C. Peter Magrath Engagement/Kellogg Outreach Scholarship Awards
The awards program seeks to identify colleges and universities that have redesigned their teaching, research, extension and service functions to become even more sympathetically and productively involved with their communities. Made possible by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Magrath Award includes $20,000 and a trophy. The national award will be presented in November at the NASULGC Annual Meeting. The application deadline is February 25, 2008. |
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| Program Advisor Spotlight: |
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Program Advisors to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provide sector-specific guidance and expertise to insure a responsive, contemporary, and vibrant NSLC. For information on all of our Program Advisors, visit: http://www.servicelearning.org/about_us/prog_advisors/index.php.
Featured Program Advisor: Campus Compact
It brings us great pleasure to announce that Campus Compact has joined the team as the Program Advisor for the Higher Education sector. Because commitment to excellence and collaboration across service-learning audiences is critical to a vital Clearinghouse, Program Advisors provide the Clearinghouse with sector-specific guidance and expertise. Campus Compact, like all NSLC Program Advisors, was selected for this role because of the high quality research, practice, and advocacy they bring to the service-learning community. Leading Campus Compact's efforts for NSLC will be Maureen F. Curley, president of the national Campus Compact organization, and Julie Plaut, head of Campus Compact’s national academic initiatives.
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents-representing some 6 million students-who are dedicated to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. For two decades, Campus Compact has led a growing movement to ensure that students graduate with the knowledge and experience to tackle society’s most pressing issues. The organization’s national office and network of 32 state offices provide training, resources, advocacy, research, funding, and information sharing to help higher education institutions create service-learning and community engagement initiatives that benefit all involved.
See below for more information about Maureen Curley and Julie Plaut. To learn more about Campus Compact and all of the NSLC Program Advisors, visit:
http://www.servicelearning.org/about_us/prog_advisors/index.php.
Maureen F. Curley, president of the national Campus Compact organization, has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, concentrating in the areas of community service and public policy. Among other leadership positions, Maureen has served as Director of Public Policy for the Community Service Society of New York and as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, where she oversaw distribution of $12 million in grants to support AmeriCorps community service-learning and mentoring programs. She also founded the Forum for Women Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations. Most recently she was the Chief Relationship Officer for Bridgestar, where she developed services to connect executive-level managers with career and board opportunities in the nonprofit sector. Maureen has taught courses on nonprofit and volunteer management at Columbia University, New York University, and UMass-Boston. Currently she serves on the board of directors of the National Service-Learning Partnership and Friends of the Children - Boston. She holds a B.A. in political science from Emmanuel College and a master’s in human services administration from Antioch University New England.
Julie Plaut is head of Campus Compact’s national academic initiatives. Her work focuses on preparing and recognizing the next generation of engaged leaders and scholars; fostering research to inform good practice; and deepening higher education institutions’ intentional and active commitment to their distinctive civic missions. She brings to the Program Advisor role 20 years of experience with service-learning in higher education. As an undergraduate student at Stanford University, she initiated a service-learning option that grew into a community organizing track in the Urban Studies Program and launched COOL’s first national grant program supporting teams of faculty, community partners, and students developing service-learning courses. At Indiana University, where she earned a Ph.D. in history, she taught service-learning courses and helped to establish and lead the campus service-learning office. She then worked at Minnesota Campus Compact, developing new partnerships, writing proposals and publications, organizing numerous professional development and networking events, and administering Learn and Serve America and other programs. Julie’s work is grounded in an asset-based approach to collaboration and change and a deep commitment to creating just, democratic, and sustainable communities. |
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| New From NSLC: |
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Fact Sheets, Lite!
In an effort to make NSLC materials of even more use to you, we’re developing new mini versions of our Fact Sheets. While you’ll always be able to find the in depth research fact sheets on our website, we hope you’ll find these mini versions a great way to get a quick overview of important service-learning research. Below you’ll find the first four redesigned fact sheets, but keep your eyes open in the newsletter and at NSLC’s booths at upcoming conferences for more: |
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Resource Update RSS Feed:
NSLC has a new (and improved) way to help you stay up-to-date on new service-learning publications collected and/or created by the Clearinghouse: the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Resource
Update RSS feed!
Unlike a newsletter, email, or traditional webpage, an RSS feed offers you many more opportunities to use and reuse the information. You can subscribe so you'll always know what's new in service-learning publications instantly and you can incorporate the feed into your own webpage, iGoogle page, or blog so it will automatically add the newest content on your site. You just need a newsfeed reader or aggregator. To subscribe, click on (or copy and paste into an aggregator) the link below:
http://www.servicelearning.org/rss/nslc.xml.
If you have trouble using this feed, you can also get the updates by visiting http://www.servicelearning.org/rss/nslcblog.html. For more information on RSS feeds, see:
http://www.semiologic.com/resources/blogging/help-with-feeds/. |
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Bring Learning to Life: A Service-Learning Podcast
You can now access recordings of teleconferences and webinars with guest speakers and other special service-learning audio events via the new NSLC podcast. And, if you have special audio events you'd like to share, let us know and we'll do our best to share them with the rest of the service-learning community.
To subscribe, click on the link below.
http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/podcasts/podcasts.rss.
If you're unfamiliar with podcasts, they are audio recordings that work similarly to RSS Feeds (by letting you subscribe to them to stay up-to-date). You can also save the podcast to your computer or mp3 player. For more information on podcasts visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting.
If you are using an older browser, or are uncomfortable subscribing, you can also find our podcasts in reverse date order here:
http://www.servicelearning.org/rss/podcasts/index.php. |
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| People are Talking About... |
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Recently the members of the higher ed email discussion list have been talking about service-learning activities with corporate partners and the role that corporate social responsibility can have in service-learning pedagogy. If you have ideas on this topic or have partnered successfully with corporations to carry out service-learning projects contribute to the discussion here:
http://lists.etr.org/read/messages?id=86220.
Meanwhile, John Guffey, Tribes and US Territories Program Advisor has introduced a new feature on the Tribes/Territories email discussion list: a digest of news and events for the sector. To read the latest edition, visit:
http://lists.etr.org/read/messages?id=86218.
If you’re not yet a part of a service-learning discussion list, please join us in discussing these and other topics in service-learning practice and scholarship by visiting
http://www.servicelearning.org/what_is_service-learning/lists_news/index.php#ls. |
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| NSLC How-Tos: |
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e-Library:
In our nearly 1,000 item (and growing), easy-to-use e-library you can find free materials related to service-learning that can be viewed and downloaded full-text right to your desktop. Search by title, author, keyword, and publication date – or just search by ‘all fields’ to find a word or phrase anywhere in the catalog record.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/fulltext.php.
Tips:
- Search for an exact phrase by using quotation marks (e.g. “civic education”)
- Try narrowing your search by sector. Put a checkmark in one or more of the sector boxes in the advanced search to get more relevant results. Or if you know you only want beginner or advanced resources, try limiting with the starter, expert, and classic checkboxes at the bottom of the catalog search page.
- Use * in place of the end of a word to search for words with a range of endings (e.g., searching for “educat*” will find “education” “educator,” “educating,” and “educators”.
- Use ^ to denote the beginning of a field (e.g. searching for ^theory in title will find all records with titles beginning with “theory”)
- Try using terms in a different order if you’re doing a complex search
And, don’t forget that Learn and Serve American grantees can borrow any of the print materials from NSLC’s over 6,500 item print library collection. |
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| Featured Library Resources: |
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 The Impact of Participation in Service-Learning on High School Students' Civic Engagement (fulltext)
This study compared more than 1,000 high school students who participated in service-learning programs with those who did not and looked at the effect that service-learning had on measures of civic engagement.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6411
 Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement Among Youth From Disadvantaged Circumstances
The aim of this report is to explore the attitudes and behaviors of youth from disadvantaged circumstances, particularly around their engagement in volunteering, to inform efforts around enhancing opportunities for these youth people to enter into the cycle of civic participation.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6983
 Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement
The authors of this book discuss what it means to teach effectively for political learning without imposing particular ideologies on students, and offer guidelines for faculty and administrators who want to help their students become more fully engaged in political life.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7305
 The Civic Renewal Movement: Community-Building and Democracy in the United States
This work explores innovation in various forms of civic engagement, while documenting the renewal of the civic movement and analyzing the power of citizens in their communities
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6624
**Service-Learning ‘Classic’:
In addition to bringing you new library resources or those selected each month around a theme, we want to highlight some of those foundational resources that are of enduring importance and usefulness to the field. Remember that you can always conduct a search for such "classic" resources (or "starter" and "expert" resources) by visiting our advanced library search page:
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/default.php.
Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, Thomas Ehrlich, Editor.
This book explains the theory and practice of civic learning and provides practical examples of programs that prepare students for lives of civic engagement.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=4588 |
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| Order Publications from NSLC: |
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Did you know that NSLC offers copies of many of our most popular resources for free or low cost to both grantees and non-grantees? You can order copies of the Bring Learning to Life public service announcement DVD and companion materials (including the new “What Is Service-Learning? A Guide for Parents”) or order NSLC promotional items for your next event. The order process is easy. Just fill out the form online and let us do the rest!
http://www.servicelearning.org/pubs/index.php |
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| What's Happening: |
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NSLC Teleconference: Meet the Tribes and US Territories Program Advisor!
Reminder: Don’t forget to attend NSLC’s teleconference this Thursday 14, 2008 from 3-4 EST (12-1 PST) to meet our Tribes and US Territories Program Advisor, John Guffey. John is the Service-Learning Instructional Specialist from Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center. This meeting will be an opportunity to help shape NSLC's services and resources for the Tribes and US Territories sector. Come share your hopes and questions about the sector and to discuss John’s work in his NSLC Program Advisor capacity. Sign up at:
http://www.servicelearning.org/nslc/teleconference_reg_form/signup.php.
Call-in Information:
Phone: 866-365-4406
Access Code: 4384139
Note: The call will be recorded for those who cannot attend.
Take Your Family to School Week
February 10-16, 2008 is PTA’s week for reinvigorating family involvement in student education. What better occasion for sharing NSLC’s new resource, What is Service-Learning? A Guide for Parents? Written by Cathy Berger Kaye for NSLC, this 6-page guide provides information on the definition and benefits of service-learning as well as practical steps that parents can take to ensure service-learning is a part of their child’s education. Order or download your free copy at: http://www.servicelearning.org/lsa/bring_learning/index.php#parents.
And to learn more about Take Your Family to School Week, visit: http://www.pta.org/take_your_family_to_school.asp
3rd Annual Conference on International Service-Learning: Advancing Research and Practice
February 29 – March 1, 2008
Indianapolis, IN
Sponsor: The International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership in collaboration with The Center for Service and Learning, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis
http://www.servicelearning.org/events_jobs/slconf_events/index.php?action=detailed&event=693
The sixth annual Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education
March 13 – 15, 2008
Nashville, TN
Sponsor: Belmont University
http://www.servicelearning.org/events_jobs/slconf_events/index.php?action=detailed&event=666
The 19th Annual National Service-Learning Conference: Youth for a Change
April 9 – 12, 2008
Minneapolis, MN
Sponsor: NYLC (National Youth Leadership Council)
http://www.servicelearning.org/events_jobs/slconf_events/index.php?action=detailed&event=618
Eleventh Annual Continuums of Service Conference
April 17 – 19, 2008
Portland, OR
Sponsor: Western Region Campus Compact Consortium
http://www.servicelearning.org/events_jobs/slconf_events/index.php?action=detailed&event=596
20th Annual International & Global Youth Service Day
April 25 – 27, 2008
(multiple locations)
Youth Service America and The Global Youth Action Network
http://www.servicelearning.org/events_jobs/slconf_events/index.php?action=detailed&event=630 |
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| Learn and Serve America Grantee Materials Roundup: |
Have you ever been convinced that your program isn't the first to try a particular idea? Do you wonder if others would be interested in your project discoveries? Whether you're just starting out, or have been engaged in service-learning for years, let the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse make the connection for you. We collect materials created by service-learning programs and add them to our library for others to access. If you have produced surveys, forms, curricula, project plans, or any type of materials that could be shared with others involved in service-learning, send them our way! Check out this list of recent grantee submissions to find evaluation tools, program ideas, publicity ideas, strategies for measuring learning, etc.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/grantee_submitted_mats.php.
Whether or not you're a Learn and Serve America Grantee, let others know about the successful approaches used in your service-learning program. Submit today at http://www.servicelearning.org/library/mat_contrib/index.php.
Remember that Learn and Serve America grantees must send the Clearinghouse all program evaluations and other material developed through their funded activities. |
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Community Partner Guide to Service Learning
Humboldt State University
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7342
Service-Learning for Social Change: A Curriculum Development Workbook
California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB)
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7351
 Montana Citizen Preparedness Through Youth Leadership
Montana Office of Public Instruction
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7421
Linking Service Learning and Civic Engagement in Community College Students
American Association of Community Colleges
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7423 |
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| Shape NSLC! |
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NSLC needs your help! We are seeking high quality photos of your service-learning programs or projects to highlight on our sector pages, as well as on the rest of the site. Each photo used will include the name of the school, a link to the school/project, and a caption. We'd love to use this as a new way to drive folks to the great program models we know are out there. Please help us brag about you by submitting your photos today using this online form:
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/mat_contrib/share_photo_form.php.
For even more bang for your publicity buck, Learn and Serve America grantee submissions will also be shared with Learn and Serve America and the Corporation for National & Community Service for inclusion in their photo collection.
Although we will be happy to work with any photos submitted, the best photos will be between 150 and 200 pixel/inch and no larger than 5Mb.
(Note: The submitter holds sole responsibility for obtaining appropriate legal permissions/releases from all stakeholders for submitted material.)
Thank you for your contribution! |
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| Success Stories: |
| Success stories are a way for NSLC to highlight and show off what you have done and are doing in the realm of service-learning.
Submit your story. |
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Greenhouses by Wayne County Community Learning Centers (A Learn and Serve America Subgrantee)
Greenhouses by Wayne County Community Learning Centers (WCCLC) project for enhancing the beautification and neighborhood improvement has collaborated with the students in the 21st Century CKCLC to expand their activities by building a greenhouse on site to help them to keep the gardens going year around. Our students currently are working on a garden at their sites and will donate the produce to the local food bank, during reflections the students have come up with ideas for the next step of their gardening and beautification projects. Our greenhouse project will enable the students to have year round planting to better support their gardening and beautification community projects. The group will construct greenhouses on site as well as help repair and update the existing greenhouse at Buffalo Elementary. They will, as a group, learn the vegetation and how it grows by having an expert greenhouse owner come and demonstrate what grows in the area. They will also have volunteers from AmeriCorps, community, parents and grandparents. The students will keep data in their journals, on what will grow in the area, what they will need to grow this type of vegetation, which person(s) will take daily care of the greenhouse, and as a group keep measurements of the plants for reflection. The staff will be responsible for keeping the students on task and the children will be responsible for the property and care giving to the plants.
Greenhouses by WCCLC project will enhance the program of Gardens by CKCLC by allowing the children to work in the greenhouse everyday and have ownership in a garden all year long. In addition to the beautification and gardening projects the students will assess community needs and choose four additional community service projects. Examples of current projects the group is participating in; collecting cell phones for the retirement homes; sending packages to the military; and continue working with the Huntington City Mission. The students will do community need surveys to determine additional projects.
For more information about this project, please contact Mrs. Lori Murdock at Playmates Child Development Center/ 21st Century Wayne County Community Learning Centers, 3603 Piedmont Rd., N., Huntington, WV 25704, wvlac@aol.com - http://www.playmates-childcare.com. |
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NSLC is all about sharing, so please feel free to forward to friends and colleagues and invite them to subscribe by sending a blank email to join-nslc-newsletter@lists.etr.org. You're also welcome to incorporate excerpts from the newsletter into your own newsletter (just be sure to cite Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse NSLC Newsletter and send us a copy). |
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