Resources

If you are interested in developing a service-learning partnership, CELTS offers a variety of resources to help you get started and to support you throughout your service-learning experience.

Service-Learning Handbooks

• Student Service-Learning Handbook
• Community Partner Service-Learning Handbook
• Faculty Service-Learning Handbook

Consultations

The service-learning staff at CELTS are available for individual consultations with faculty, community partners, and students. We can help you develop ideas for projects and help connect you with a service-learning partner, as well as connect you with additional resources. Contact Associate Director for Service-Learning and Student-Led Programs Ashley Cochrane to make an appointment.

Orientations, Reflection Facilitations, and TA Trainings

CELTS service-learning staff offer in-class orientations for service-learning courses, assistance with facilitation of reflection activities, and trainings for Teaching Assistants (TAs) who will be working with a service-learning course. For more information or to schedule one of these programs, contact Associate Director for Service-Learning and Student-Led Programs Ashley Cochrane.

Mini-Van and Transportation Reimbursement

CELTS has a mini-van available for use by students in service-learning courses. All motorpool regulations apply to use of the CELTS mini-van. Contact CELTS Administrative Assistant Sheila Lyons at least one week in advance to schedule use of the mini-van. See the attached form for details about use of the mini-van.

CELTS also offers limited reimbursement of transportation costs for service-learning courses. See the attached form for more information.

• Download form

Sample Forms

These sample forms may be helpful as you develop your service-learning course. You are welcome to use or adapt these forms to fit the specific needs of your service-learning course.

• Service-Learning Project Agreement
• Community Partner Service-Learning Project Evaluation

Resource Library

CELTS has available a variety of books, journals, and other resources that focus on service-learning. You can access a full listing of these resources on BANC, the Berea College Library Catalog.

Web Resources

These Web sites provide many resources for faculty, community partners, and students, including information on service-learning syllabi, reflection, research, conferences, publications, and more.

• Web Sites
  • Campus Compact
  • Kentucky Campus Compact Website
  • National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Syllabi
  • Campus Compact: Service-Learning Syllabi Links
    From this page of the Campus Compact Web site, you can connect to the “service-learning syllabi by discipline project,” which allows you to search for service-learning syllabi in your field. The Web site also provides links to many other service-learning syllabi lists and resources.
  • National Service-Learning Clearinghouse: Service Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples
    This link to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provides a database of service-learning syllabi as well as links to other syllabi and course construction resources.
• Reflection
  • Service-Learning: Using Structured Reflection to Enhance Learning from Service
  • Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators
  • Processing Service Experiences and Reflection Activity Ideas
  • Creative Reflection Ideas
  • Sample Reflection Questions