Service-Learning on campus and online!
Service-Learning projects enrich the material students are learning in the classroom through active learning in the community. Participation in a service-learning projects allows students to practice real world skills and real life applications, along with helping to meet community needs. The O'Connor Center for Community Engagement is a resource for students, faculty and our community partners to help promote this valuable learning tool and encourage active citizenship.
Learn how Inclusive Classroom service learning projects (a partnership with The Arc of Delaware County) at SUNY Delhi are working to meet institutional goals on diversity and student engagement!
Attention Faculty- CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Rolling Deadline
Service-Learning Fellows Grant: The O’Connor Center for Community Engagement assists SUNY Delhi faculty to revise or design new courses or new sections of existing courses, by incorporating service-learning pedagogy into course projects/assignments that will actively engage students in civic endeavors as well as developing a partnership with community agency. Grants moneys are provided to support faculty to develop such initiatives. Service-learning grant moneys can be used for extra compensation, travel, resources, attendance at conferences, and hiring student workers in support of course development initiatives related to incorporating service learning pedagogy into a given course. Faculty awarded Service-learning grants will also be expected to participate in a faculty forum on service-learning for sharing ideas on the development of service-learning courses and community engagement with other faculty. Collaborative activities involving small or whole-class group projects interacting with local community agencies can be created as part of course instruction.
Service-Learning Fellows Grant Proposal Guidelines: Course objectives should be connected to an identified need of a community/population. Structured service-learning activities should be tied to the course objectives on one hand and to the community need on the other. The course assignments/papers are designed to help students connect service experiences with the course content/theories to maximize students’ learning from such experiences. Students are guided through this reflection to see connections between personal, professional, and civic realms of educational goals.
The proposal should be no more than six double-spaced pages and must clearly describe the following with subheadings:
• Proposed course number (if new course you can indicate the level, i.e., 100, 200, etc) and title
• Course learning objectives that relate to community need
• Planned service learning course instructional components and activities
• Anticipated community agency or population and projected benefits of service learning activities to such agency/population
• Assessment plan for determining the impact of the service learning activities/projects on the group/population served, on the community or society in general, and on learning outcomes of the students in the areas of personal and professional development and civic responsibility.
• Timeline for course development and implementation
• Budget including cost of transportation
• Letter of support from Department Chair
Expectations of Grant Recipients - SL Fellows: Grant recipients are encouraged to consult the coordinator of the O’Connor Center during different stages of course development or re-development to make sure various components of service learning pedagogy are well-reflected in the proposed course. The service-learning courses developed using SL grants are required to be approved by the coordinator before offering them. For approval, the syllabus of service learning course must be submitted to the coordinator.
At the conclusion of the first term in which the course with the service-learning component is taught, a brief report (no more than two pages in length) should be submitted to the O’Connor Center. This report should discuss the instructor’s reflections (positive outcomes and challenges) in offering such course, impact of the service-learning activities on the community agency or population, details of participants, provide evidence/data on student learning outcomes/experiences and other general observations.
Upon completion of the report $500.00 will be awarded.
Please schedule a pre-proposal consultation with the O’Connor Center. Contact Elizabeth Sova (x4781)
Submit three (3) copies of the proposals to: The O’Connor Center for Community Engagement, 217 Farrell Student and Community Center
