Most of the schools involved in service learning are 4-year institutions, while the technical colleges tend to do more cooperative education. The most common program effort identified by respondents for community-based work was community development . Ninety-four percent of respondents are currently doing community development. Seventy-four percent of respondents are currently involved in curriculum development and 68 percent involved in the identification of community needs. Other activities include, student recruitment, project development, faculty recruitment, and evaluation.
Research is an area of activity that has a very low level of reported participation.
Respondents are developing curriculum, recruiting students and recruiting faculty from 43 disciplines. The biggest barrier to implementing community-based programming was identified as Lack of Faculty Development . While No Time is a difficult barrier to overcome, the barrier of No Faculty Development might be addressed through systematic efforts or collaboratively designed or shared materials. Thirty-two percent of respondents indicated they are currently working towards incorporating service learning into the institution s mission statement or strategic plans. Presently and in the future, developing an incentive plan or changing school policy may be pursued to gain institutional support.