Students contact site supervisor, discuss course learning objectives, orientation and training, and sign a contract detailing responsibilities of student and site supervisor. Faculty member forwards completed applications to service-learning coordinators. Students serve a minimum of twenty hours, usually two hours per week for ten weeks. Faculty member and student interact to create a reflective journal connecting service to course concepts and theories. Students are given opportunities to share their reflections with other students in class and more broadly with other KCC students.
Students complete related service-learning assignments.
This coordination plan worked reasonably well in academic year 1995-96. Over the course of two semesters, nearly four hundred students provided more than eight thousand hours of community service that would not have been provided otherwise. We held a second summer institute in May 1996 and are currently developing our overall coordination plan for 1996-97. The new plan pays much more attention to student orientation, evaluation of learning outcomes, reducing faculty paperwork responsibilities, and sustainability. We also hope to make stronger connections to Student Services and Student Activities.