Faculty Resources:

VCC Resources

NCC Resources

Organizations and Journals

Community Based Research

Service Learning Research

Service Learning Courses and Syllabi

Organizations and Journals

• Association of American Colleges and Universites Liberal Education Journal
• Civic Responsibility: What is the Campus Climate for Learning? 
• Civic Engagement at the Center: Building Democracy Through Integrated Co-Curricular and Curricular Experiences
• Service Learning Resources for Chemistry Faculty from the American Chemical Society
• The CCPH Community-Campus Partnership Toolkit includes portfolio examples, intended as a resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure.
• The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement’s (CIRCLE) has several resources and white papers, including "The Impact of Participation in Service- Learning on High School Students’ Civic Engagement" by Shelley Billig, Sue Root, and Dan Jesse
• Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit A resource for community-engaged faculty on how to "make their best case" for promotion and tenure.
  
• Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART) is a database that provides information on instruments that measure attributes associated with youth development programs. CART includes descriptions of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended to assist those who have an interest in studying the effectiveness of service-learning, safe and drug-free schools and communities, and other school-based youth development activities.
• The Corporation for National and Community Service provides opportunities for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities and country through three programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America.
• Effective Practices Service Events Page Browse the month-by-month list of service events, each with corresponding effective practices that offer ideas for supporting these service- and volunteering-related events.
  
• The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute is widely recognized for its role in examining public issues and shaping public policy at the local, state, national, and international levels, and for providing leadership and management expertise to public and nonprofit organizations.
• The Higher Education Network for Community Engagement (HENCE) is a response to the growing need to deepen, consolidate, and advance the literature, research, practice, policy, and advocacy for community engagement as a core element of higher education’s role in society. Increasingly, higher education institutions are intentionally connecting academic work to public purposes through extensive partnerships that involve faculty and students in active collaboration with communities. This idea of "community engagement" is renewing the civic mission of higher education and transforming academic culture in ways that are both exciting and challenging.
• Idealist on Campus offers resources, events, educational tools, networking opportunities, and other programs that support students and campuses in strengthening communities through service, activism, and civic engagement.
• Idealist offers downloadable workshops, originally known as the Civic Engagement Curriculum, developed by C.O.O.L. (Campus Outreach Opportunity League) in partnership with The Bonner Foundation. These workshops are free for public use. Topics include: Leadership; Relationships & Community; Diversity; and Group Infrastructure.
• The Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning publishes numerous articles that address the impact of service-learning on faculty, students, community members and others; including The Impact of Service-Learning on College Students by Eyler, Giles and Braxton, Fall 1997 and An Assessment Model for Service-Learning: Comprehensive Case Studies of Impact on Faculty, Students, Community, and Institution by Driscoll, Holland, Gelmon, and Kerrigan (Fall 1996). See abstracts and table of contents (and order past issues).
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has several articles available on the impact of service-learning on K-12 students and college students, as well as "Hot Topics: Impacts, Outcomes and Effects"
• Now available from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, Building Citizens: A Critical Reflection and Discussion Guide for Community Service Participants is designed to help community service programs incorporate a deliberative, civic dimension into their programs by guiding participants in reflection that makes explicit connections between service and critical, enlivened citizenship.
  
• Peer Review, Bringing Theory To Practice, Summer 2007, Vol. 9, No. 3
  This issue features Bringing Theory to Practice, a project that seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students' education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement. This issue includes a project overview as well as campus examples.
• The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
• UC Berkeley Service-Learning Research and Development Center provides a number of resources related to service-learning research and evaluation.