CEACs Focus

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CEACs
Focus

• Community connections for working with
• faculty and community
• Using service learning as a tool to strengthen
  teaching and leadership skills while contributing
  to community

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Challenges and Barriers

• Increased roles, expectations
• Diverse and changing society
• Arrangements and time

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Benefits Abound

• Connection to other disciplines and community,
  building relationships
• Reality testing for students enriches
  understanding of subject, adds to discussion,
  raises competence (Root,1997)
• Increased knowledge through application,
  opportunities for exploration, leadership
  building

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Benefits

• Another instructional paradigm
• Link to learning with better retention by
  practicing/ trials,
• reflection and research opportunities, builds
  skills (prioritizing, decision-making, PR)

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Connectivity through Service

• Hart and Teeter (1999) shows 68 disconnectedness
• Loss of social capital, leadership skills
  (Putnam) ie. committee serv.
• Yet increase in institutions and communities in
  2003 (see graphs)

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Examples used elsewhere

• On-line tutoring
• Community fairs
• Resource guides, data bases
• Tutoring, mentoring
• Photo displays
• Coaching, afterschool programs, YMCA and other
  agencies

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Next Steps

• Testimonial from a source
• What are ways you could incor-porate service into
  your curriculum?
• How to start ideas

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Bibliography Information

• National Service Clearinghouse, University of
  Minnesota
• Corp. for National Service, www. cns.gov
• Ward, K., Faculty development,Expanding Bound-
  aries (p.33-35,1996, Co-op Ed.)

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