Campus-Community Collaborations: Examples and Resources for Community Colleges will describe models for developing effective partnerships. Major areas that will be examined include community college collaborations with social agencies, K-12, four-year institutions, business and industry, and National Service programs.
 

Community Awareness Enhances the Quality of Life is concerned with assisting faculty in various disciplines to become more aware of the notions of emergency and domestic preparedness, homeland security, and civic engagement and what they mean in each college's unique situation and circumstances. This collection of articles demonstrates how the Supporting Actions for Engagement (SAFE) teams have taken the challenge to enhance the quality of life through service learning projects in their communities. Issues, challenges, and solutions surrounding problems such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and terrorism are addressed in unique and creative ways through the actions of faculty and students in diverse geographical locations.

Evaluation and Assessment for Service-Learning is a resource for those involved in service-learning who want to improve both their programs and their awareness of the far-reaching as well as the immediate impacts their programs have. This compilation includes both the why and the how of assessing service-learning programs and impacts, including student pre and post tests, surveys, and resources. . Date Published: 12/97; 92 pages.
 

From The Margin To The Mainstream The Faculty Role In Advancing Service-Learning On Community Colleges is a resource for community colleges to understand the critical role faculty play in advancing service-learning on community college campuses. It summarizes the work of five Margin to the Mainstream project faculty members, who work with over 60 community colleges throughout the nation.

It is divided into three major components:

• five models of integrating service-learning on community college campuses;
• five cases studies that provide delimmas and strategies for integrating service-learning;
• lessons from the field that identify successful strategies for motivating, encouraging and supporting community college faculty to consider and implement service-learning.

The resource is edited by Terry Pickeral and Karen Peters and contains the work of the following project faculty members:

Donna Duffy, Middlesex Community College (MA)
Bob Franco, Kapiolani Community College (HI)
Jim Glasson, Community College of Rhode Island (RI)
David Lisman, Community College of Aurora (CO)
Sue, McAleavey, Mesa Community College (AZ)
Available on-line after December 10, 1996
 

Disciplinary Pathways to Service-Learning will provide a collection of essays to encourage faculty to consider integrating service-learning in their classes. Along with information on specific disciplines (e.g., social sciences, humanities, health, technical/vocational, business and science/math) this document will identify resources available to assist community college faculty.
 

SAFE Connections through Community Colleges addresses the importance and process of making connections to, and meeting the needs of the community in emergency or disaster situations. This publication consists of three parts: 1) reflective essays from our SAFE Grant teams across the country; 2) responses to five frequently-asked questions about service learning and civic engagement; and 3) a wealth of supplementary materials such as syllabi, surveys and questionnaires, PowerPoint presentations, and brochures. Read how the SAFE teams brought the classroom to the community, engaging in projects that taught students the importance of good citizenship while serving their community. We can emerge better prepared for many emergency situations with careful thought and advance planning. That is the mission of the Supporting Actions for Engagement (SAFE) grant. Date Published: 10/05; 206 pages.
 

SAFE Models of Civic Engagement: Sustaining Service Learning. How do we make ourselves, our homes, our communities safe? How do we take care of each other, be good neighbors, and prepare for disasters that may strike our communities? Learn how 10 community college teams across the United States developed service learning programs to address these issues while employing innovative tools to sustain their programs and institutionalize service learning and civic engagement on their campuses. Date Published: 09/06; 125 pages.
 

Tensions Inherent in Service-Learning: Achieving Balance is a resource for community colleges to understand the tensions inherent in the integration of service-learning into community and technical colleges. Faculty discuss the tensions encountered in moving service-learning from a marginal pedagogy to an authentic method of teaching and learning.
 

Three Years After: Lessons Learned from a National Service-Learning Project at Community Colleges is a resource which gleans the best practices from the perspective of engaged faculty members. Faculty identify several lessons from the field that can assist others in designing effective processes to motivate and educate faculty in service-learning pedagogy.
 

Assessing Internal and External Outcomes of Service-Learning Collaborations provides critical insights from community college and university faculty for enhancing and improving service-learning programs. From institutional self-assessments to assessing the community impact, this sourcebook provides the tools necessary to improve your service-learning program.
 

Where is the Common Ground? Insights into Service-Learning Collaborations between Community Colleges and Universities is a sourcebook which describes in depth the partnership, the community served, the challenges faced, and the relationships fostered during the collaborative efforts of 2 and 4-year institutions. The partnerships described in this sourcebook provide both ideas and insights so that you may be encouraged to pursue such an endeavor.
 

Through Whose Eyes - Service-Learning and Civic Engagement from Culturally Diverse Perspectives is a resource which will help faculty understand the theory and the practice, as well as the rewards and challenges of service-learning, with particular attention paid to our diverse population. Why is it important that colleges and universities empower students to become better citizens? How can institutions of higher learning integrate academics and community service? How do we strengthen partnerships between institutions of higher education, K-12 institutions, and community agencies? How have faculty successfully incorporated concepts and strategies of service-learning and civic engagement into culturally diverse communities? What are the rewards and benefits that faculty, students, and community partners receive in the process of serving others? America's community colleges must nurture the civic roots of our nation's increasingly diverse democracy.
 

We Are All Related: Service Learning, Civic Engagement, and Connectedness is a resource which takes a variety of approaches to underpinning service learning and civic engagement while employing practical methods in service learning classrooms. This publication demonstrates how adding the notion of connectedness to the companion themes of service learning and civic engagement magnifies the power of educators to affect both the quality of student learning and positive outcomes to the communities being served. CD with PowerPoint presentation on GEMS service learning project included.