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We are delighted that you are interested in service learning. We have prepared this Handbook to give you a perspective on this instructional method, an overview of the services available to you at the Office of Service Learning, and suggestions about how you can incorporate service learning into your academic course.
This handbook provides
resources that will support your efforts to develop a service learning course consistent with high standards of practice, as exemplified in the document "Evaluating Instruction of Service Learning Courses at Tulane University" (Appendix A).
Please contact Vincent Ilustre, Associate Director, at vilustr@tulane.edu or (504)862-3358 if you are interested in receiving assistance in setting up a service learning course or to request a hard copy of this handbook.
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Learn and Serve America
Tulane's Office of Service Learning (OSL) is excited to be leading a consortium of colleges and universities in a project to increase the impact of service learning on each school's campus. Service learning program staff at each institution are implementing new efforts or revising their current procedures for faculty development, community relationship building, student development, and program institutionalization. For more information, please visit our website specifically for this program HERE.
As part of this grant, our office has launched three new initiatives for faculty:
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Learn and Serve America Faculty Seminars With support from the Corporation for National and Community Service's Learn and Serve America Program, Tulane's Office of Service Learning is offering four faculty course development grants to faculty members to develop a new service learning course. Seminars will be offered through the Spring of 2006. For more information about the seminar, please see the link below or call Vincent Ilustre at vilustr@tulane.edu. Learn and Serve America Mini-Grants With funding from the Learn and Serve America Program, we are offering four $1500 mini-grants each year (2004-2006) to support opportunities for collaborative community research and project development. Service Learning faculty or community partners are encouraged to apply for the mini-grants. We hope that projects supported by mini-grants will help to build university/community collaborations that actively engage the community, university faculty, and students in addressing issues of community importance. For more information about the mini-grant, please see the link below or call Vincent Ilustre at vilustr@tulane.edu. Learn and Serve America Faculty Mini-Seminars
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FIPSE Faculty Seminars
With support from the US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, Tulane's Office of Service Learning(OSL) offered 36 faculty course development grants to faculty members to develop new service learning courses. Faculty members attended a ten week seminar discussing service learning theory and pedagogy at the same time they were creating or reconstructing their course syllabi to integrate service learning.
Faculty participants in FIPSE
Faculty evaluation of service learning courses
Although it is being widely adopted, service learning is a relatively new educational approach at Tulane. With it being a unique pedagogical approach, the following document may be useful in assisting faculty members to understand standards of good practice associated with service learning.
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Service Learning Syllabi Service learning syllabi developed by faculty members at Tulane are catalogued at the Office of Service Learning. If you would like to view syllabi, please contact the OSL at (504)862-8060 Service Learning Syllabi also exists on the web at the following addresses: |
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