Service Learning Principles

  1. Academic credit is for learning, not for service.
  2. Do not compromise academic rigor.
  3. Set learning goals for students.
  4. Establish criteria for the selection of community service placements.
  5. Provide educationally sound mechanisms in order to best learn from the community.
  6. Provide support for students to learn how to learn from the community.
  7. Minimize the distinction between the student’s community learning role and the classroom learning role.
  8. Rethink the faculty instructional role.
  9. Be prepared for uncertainty and variation in student learning outcomes.
  10. Maximize the community responsibility orientation of the course.

Jeffrey Howard, Praxis I, 1993.

 

 
Community Engagement & Leadership is a department in the Division of Student Affairs.