C R I T E R I A
FOR TEAM SERIVCE-LEARNING
PROJECTS
- The service activities should respond to and meet a real, significant,
and demonstrated need(s) in the community.
- Students performing the service will conduct a needs assessment
to demonstrate the scope and severity of the need.
- Those with needs are involved in the decision-making process of how
those needs will be addressed.
- The content and implementation of service tasks will demonstrate an
awareness of, and an incorporation with, academic goals and objectives,
course texts, and other course readings.
- Students will develop a service-learning action plan (complete with
service and learning objectives) which will detail how the problem will
be addressed and the types of learning to achieved.
- The goal of the project will be to empower those being served to be
better able to serve and be served by their own actions.
- Projects must be large enough to matter and small enough to be do-able
within the time, expertise, and knowledge of team members.
- Concepts such as research, team-work, needs assessment, direct service,
advocacy, defining "community," working as "citizens," examines diversity
and inequality in our communities (race, gender, class, religion, and sexual
orientation), personal and spiritual development, critical examination of self,
beliefs, prejudics, and concepts will be addressed through service and learning
objectives.
- Each team member will have a significant role to play and important work to do.