Service-Learning Links
National Links
Corporation for Community and National Service
Provides grants and training and technical assistance to develop and expand volunteer organizations.Explores, develops, and models effective approaches for using volunteers to meet the nation’s human needs and conducts and disseminates research that helps develop and cultivate knowledge that will enhance the overall effectiveness of national and community service programs.
National Service Learning Partnership
A national network of service-learning supporters that provides service-learning tools, resources, and best practices; a marketplace to offer or seek professional services; monthly updates; and federal advocacy representation.
National Campus Compact
A national coalition of over 520 college and university presidents established to create public service opportunities for their students and develop an expectation of service as an integral part of the undergraduate experience.
Ohio Campus Compact
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Contains a searchable database of K-12 and higher education service-learning literature, information about events, listservs and Learn and Serve America efforts and links to a variety of service-learning information resources.
National Society for Experiential Education
Includes information about various experiential education methods, including service-learning.
Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Research Directory
The research directory is an aggregation of the search pages of primary online resources related to service-learning and civic engagement research in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. The search databases of these online sources are posted on a single page, providing a one-stop source for accessing available research information from existing online databases.
Service Learning and Experiential Education
Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
Servenet
Helps youth volunteers connect with local nonprofits to make a difference in communities
American Association of Colleges and Universities
The Civic Engagement section contains links to service-learning publications and best practices.
Service-Learning in Teacher Education
A handbook developed by the National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership.
Ohio State Links
Diversity Leadership Transcript Program
The Diversity Transcript program provides students a way to assemble an official record of diversity-related coursework, student organization participation, community service, community service, volunteer activities and internship(s) pursued during a student’s undergraduate career at The Ohio State University.
Project Community/Ohio Union
Project Community works with students and staff interested in pursuing service opportunities. Additionally, the office has many contacts with local community agencies interested in Ohio State volunteers.
Office of University Outreach and Engagement
Works in collaboration with faculty, staff, students, and units to enrich Ohio State’s partnerships with the community and to embed outreach and engagement into colleges and departments. Maintains a database to document outreach activities of faculty and staff.
Publication Outlets
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
A peer-reviewed academic journal containing papers written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community. Site contains abstracts of MJCSL articles and information on subscribing and submitting manuscripts.
Compact Impact: Practicing Service-Learning
Through the publication of peer-reviewed articles, Compact Impact aims to support faculty and institutions of higher education in the development of service-learning curriculum and academic endeavors that educate students for civic involvement and civic values. Compact Impact also encourages efforts to build campus and community partnerships that create service opportunities for students in support of sound educational objectives. Published by Texas Campus Compact.
Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
A peer-reviewed journal that provides a strategic forum for international and multi-disciplinary dialogue for all academic educators and educational policy-makers concerned with the different dimensions of division in society within the context of education, citizenship and social justice across the full spectrum of education and education-related institutions and practices.
Information for Action—A Journal on Service-Learning Research with Children and Youth
Articles are welcomed from three audiences: academic researchers who wish to report on current research efforts dealing with some aspect of service-learning (including teacher preparation), teachers and other practitioners who wish to share their studies and reflections on service-learning implementation that integrates theory with practice, and articles/reports by youth on research/evaluation initiatives that add something new to the service-learning literature.
National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly Journal
Publishes articles on internships, co-op, arts, international and cross-cultural education, service learning, social justice, and active learning in the classroom.
