Service-Learning at SFCC

Martha Sorensen, LISW

Director of Service-Learning Janet Berry, Specialist

Keith Melton, Community Outreach

AACC Definition of Service-Learning

The combination of community service and classroom instruction with a focus on critical, reflective thinking as well as personal and civic responsibility.

Service-Learning Department

• Now in the School of Liberal Arts & Core Studies

• Service-learning integrated into an increasing number of courses within this School.

Other Service-Learning Activities

• America’s Unfinished Business Film and Discussion Series

• Voter registration and promotion of voting and civic engagement

• Participation in community events

Courses

• Volunteer Service

• Community Health Service

• Women in Transition

• Transforming Self

• Conflict Resolution

• Service Leadership

Learn and Serve Grant

• Tutoring program • Leadership & conflict

management classes • Leadership training

with agencies • Creating and

supporting service-learning classes

- 256 contact hours

- 620 contact hours

- 800 contact hours.

- 2000 contact hours

Women in Transition Program

• Women in Transition

• Transforming Self

• Women in Transition in Spanish

• Women in Transition scholarships (Larry Meyer Endowment)

National Chemistry Week

Girls Inc.

Some of our Community Partners

Girls Inc.

Southwest Care

Esperanza Center for Battered Families

!Muy Sabroso! Spicing Up Service-Learning in the City

Different Presentation for the Community College

National Center for Community Engagement Conference

Scottsdale, AZ, May, 2008

Three Recipes for Service Learning

• Engaging Students for Maximum Yield (Retention).

• Picking the Best Community Partners.

• Going Green and Local.

Going Green and Local

• SFCC signed the Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

• Four instructors grew on-campus service-learning environmental projects.

• Carbon calculator outcomes will be used to generate new on-campus projects seeded by the Big Green Brainstorm.