About the Kernodle CenterThe Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement engages students, faculty, staff and community partners in service that benefits the university and its surrounding community. The Kernodle Center houses Elon Volunteers!, a student-led program offering a range of volunteer activities; coordinates Elon’s signature academic service-learning programs and courses; and sponsors alternative break service trips.

MissionThe Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement at Elon University, in partnership with local and international communities, advances student learning, leadership and citizenship to prepare students for lives of active community engagement within a complex and changing world. This preparation is grounded in an ethic of service that appreciates multiple perspectives, creates opportunities that are affirming and empowering to all, and responds to the needs of our diverse communities.

• Educate students through curricular and co-curricular experiences encompass-ing direct service, indirect service and advocacy.

• Create and support collaborative and sustainable relationships between faculty, staff, students and community partners.

• Encourage personal responsibility and a deeper understanding of societal issues.

• Foster creative solutions to social concerns and identified community needs.

• Build student leadership, community capacity and faculty and staff engagement.

Goals

The mission statements of Elon University and the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement reflect the strong values of our campus and its commitment to community service, which are hallmarks of an Elon education. On behalf of the Kernodle Center, I am happy to report that once again the number of service hours performed by Elon students exceeded 100,000 in 2011-2012. These hours represent a commitment to our communities—locally, nationally, and globally.

The Kernodle Center and its campus and community partners arededicated to serving as community advocates, providingservice to meet those needs, and reflecting on these experiences ina manner that demonstrates personal and community change. Ourgoal is that our students’ experiences with service build a personalethos of community engagement, advocacy and servantleadership beyond their time at Elon. We recognize that we are all partners in this journey, and I wouldpersonally like to express my thanks, admiration and appreciation for our devoted students, faculty and staff who have served ourcommunities. I would also invite all who read this to continue to engage with the Kernodle Center and to reaffirm your lifelong commitment to service and community engagement.

Dr. Jana Lynn Patterson Assistant Vice President for Student Life

I am continually impressed with Elon student’sdedication to helping others. They have worked inpartnership with faculty and staff to create acampus culture that is committed to servinglocally in Burlington, throughout the US, andabroad. This campus ethos was immediatelyevident on move-in day when hundreds of poundsof schools supplies were collected in donationboxes set up near residence halls. These supplieswere sent to school children in war torn HelmondProvince, Afghanistan as well as homeless children at

Burlington area schools. Students’ service in the local community included tutoringchildren, volunteering to aid the elderly, assisting persons withdisabilities, and raising funds to donate to charities. Elon studentseven engaged in service during their time off from school helping toaddress issues such as hunger and homelessness, affordablehousing, disaster relief, and rural poverty while serving during theirfall and spring breaks. All of this would not be possible without the world-class facultyand staff of Elon University. Faculty and staff members embraced thevalue of students learning in-and-out of the classroom offering over50 service learning courses and traveling, locally and internationally,to serve as advisors for service projects. Through it all the Kernodle Center for Service Learning andCommunity Engagement’s staff kept the focus on student learningand developing mutually beneficial partnerships in the community,thus maintaining Elon University’s place as a leader in servicelearning and community engagement.

Dr. G. Smith Jackson Vice President & Dean of Student Life

Elon receives money from the Charles A. Frueauff Foundation to develop two new programs: Community Partnership Initative Grants and LINCS.

‘05-’06

Elon Volunteers! (EV!) forms as part of the Chaplain’s Office.

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Elon is named as one of the top three universities nationwide in the inaugural President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

‘06-’07Elon sends five service trips to Bay St. Louis, MS to provide Hurricane Katrina relief.

‘05-’06

First year of the Service Learning Community.

‘94-95Elon College Habitat for Humanity chapter is chartered.

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Spotlight on Service

In 2011-2012, 2,693 Elon students completed 101,189 hours of service.

110 students served as EV! leaders

Snapshots of 25 Years

At Elon, service is a way of LifeService is a core value at Elon, and is one of the five Elon Experiences. Service is conducted through sports teams, fraternities and sororities, and a variety of student organizations on campus. Everywhere you look, service is being done at Elon!

More than 120 students went on 10 alternative break trips

“I absolutely love working with EV! because of the service opportunities, atmosphere of the office and attitudes of those within the programs.” – Jessica Elizondo, senior

Elon is named one of five recipients of The Washington Center’s inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award.

‘08-’09The Elon University Campus Kitchen is founded.

‘09-’10KCSLCE celebrates its 25th anniversary

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Pam Kiser named first Kernodle Center Faculty Development Fellow for Academic Service-Learning.

‘03-’04North Carolina Campus Compact forms at Elon.

‘01-’02Center for Service-Learning receives endowment gift from the Kernodle family to name the center in honor of John Robert Kernodle, Jr.

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Community Parternship InitiativeGrant Recipients 2011-2012 • Sophie Adamson, French • Bill Andrews, Physical Therapy Education • Lucinda Austin, Communications • Joan Barnatt, Education • Alexa Darby, Psychology • Amanda Gallagher, Communications • Martin Kamela, Physics • Doug Kass, Communications • Julie Lellis, Communications • Max Negin, Communications • Rebecca Olmedo, Spanish • Toddie Peters, Religious Studies • Rebecca Pope-Ruark, English • Beth Warner, Human Services Studies

Service Learning Faculty Scholars 2011-2012

• Peter Felten, History • Julie Lellis, Communications • Buffy Longmire-Avital, Psychology • Max Negin, Communications • Toddie Peters, Religious Studies • Amanda Sturgill, Communications • Jennifer Uno, Biology

Awards & Recognition 2011-2012

• American Red Cross Golden Heart Award for EV! Blood Drives • President’s Higher Education Community Service Award • Outstanding Service to Students: Mary Leigh Frier • Student Organization Member of the Year: Andrew Somers • Dr. J Earl Danieley Leadership Award: Katie Kenney • Ward Family Learning in Action Award: Kevin Lynch • 2012 Newman Civic Fellow: Will Brummett

26,429 hours completed through 52 Academic Service Learning courses

17,960 hours completed by graduate school students

“Service learning is so important inside and outside the classroom to personal development, and EV! provides Elon students with ample opportunities to learn.” –Rachel Stanley, senior

3,886 pounds of food donated through CKEU

•Linda Allison - Assistant Director, Alamance County Department of Social Services

•Brooke Barnett - Senior Fellow and Advisor to the President and Professor of Communications

•David Cooper - Dean, School of Education and Professor of Education

•Peter Felten - Assistant Provost, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of History

•Sharon Hodge - Associate Profes-sor of Marketing and Chair of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship

•Laurie Lambert - Community Volunteer

•Deborah Long - Director of the Elon Academy and Professor of Education

•Steve Mencarini - Director of the Center for Leadership

•Jason Springer - Assistant Director of Academic Advising and Director of Elon 101

•Jeff Stein - Chief of Staff, Senior Advisor to the President, Secretary to the Board of Trustees & Assistant Professor of English

• Eric Townsend - Director of Elon University News Bureau

•Rans Triplett - Executive Director, The American Red Cross – Pied-mont Carolina Chapter

•Tom Vecchione - Executive Direc-tor of Career Services

•Mary Wise - Assistant Vice Presi-dent of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Communications

•Lynn Wright -Kernodle Associate Executive Director/ Director of the Teachers Institute North Carolina Humanities Council

Kernodle Center Staff

KCSLCE Advisory Committee

Mary Morrison, Director

Mary Leigh Frier Denlinger,

Associate Director

Tammy Cobb, Assistant Director of

Community Partnerships

Evan Small, Special Programs Coordinator

Libby Otos, Program Assistant

Steve Caldwell, Campus Kitchens Program Coordinator

Pam Kiser, Faculty Fellow for Academic Service-Learning

Bud Warner, Faculty Development Fellow

2999 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244