Faculty distribute course syllabi on the first day of class, emphasize the service-learning option, and encourage students to pick up an application and review the handbook. Students identify an appropriate agency and consult with a faculty member. Students may select an agency not in the handbook or create their own service projects with faculty supervision. 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.