A comprehensive set of resources for faculty interested in teaching service-learning courses is available here.
Director of Service-Learning
Volunteer Coordinator
AmeriCorps VISTA
The UCA Service-Learning Program supports partnerships between students, faculty, and community partners to integrate meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Service-learning and volunteerism are part of UCA’s Division of Outreach and Community Engagement
Service-learning can engage students in a variety of types of service experiences, including direct service, indirect service, research-based service, and advocacy.
Advocacy service-learning educates others about topics of public interest, and engages students in projects that aim to create awareness and action on some issue that impacts the community. Examples include:
A growing body of academic research is devoted to community engagement in higher education, including on the impacts of various types and models of service-learning on students, faculty, and communities. Research that includes community partners in the design, implementation, and sharing of results is called community-based research, and such research is often used to drive advocacy or social action based on findings