(2009) Presentation in Power Point. Wiley Cordone Instructional Design portfolio.

1. Promoting Service Learning at MWCC:
Leadership Through Service Proposal

2. Service learning is a crucial component of
President Asquino’s
ten year vision.

3. Service learning is a crucial component of
President Asquino’s
ten year vision.

4. The Center for Democracy and
Humanity understands the
benefits, recognizes the
challenges, and has developed a
coordinated response to service
learning (SL) at
Mount Wachusett Community College.

5. Benefits
Challenges
Response
Students

6. I’m more socially and emotionally mature because
of my service.
I’m more
civically
engaged.
Benefits
Abes &
Jones (2004)
Challenges
Response
Students

7. I have improved
retention of
course content.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Students

8. I’m more attractive
to employers
because I have
practical service
experience.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Students

9. Faculty participating in SL show increases
in job satisfaction, a re-energized
classroom approach, and demonstrations
of improvement in evaluations even for
courses without a SL component.
(Campus Compact, 2007)
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Faculty

10. I am more likely than my
colleagues who don’t
participate in SL to
receive recognition
outside my field.
(Boyer, 1990).
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Faculty

11. When I conduct
research in the future, it
will be influenced by a
community context
because of my
participation in SL (Eller,
Giles, & Stenson (2001).
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Faculty

12. Benefits
Challenges
Response
Community Sites

13. Service learning is a vehicle
for social change.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Community Sites

14. Service learning allows me to
reach more people.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Community Sites

15. Service learning allows me
to share my passion for my
mission with the next
generation.
Benefits
Challenges
Jacoby (2003)
Response
Community Sites

16. Why are only some service learners
engaged?
There is some confusion
between service learning
and volunteerism.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Billing, Root, & Jesse (2005)

17. Why are only some service learners
engaged?
Volunteerism unconnected
to classroom objectives
results in a poor quality
experience.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Billing, Root, & Jesse (2005)

18. Why are only some service learners
engaged?
Many host sites
are not prepared to
“land”
students.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Billing, Root, & Jesse (2005)

19. Why are only some service learners
engaged?
There is little support or
training for students
participating in service
learning.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Billing, Root, & Jesse (2005)

20. Why aren’t more faculty interested in
service learning?
“Service learning requires
additional time, effort, and
(sometimes) additional
bureaucratic hoops.”
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Boyer (1990)

21. Why aren’t more faculty interested in
service learning?
“Service learning restricts
academic freedom.
Even the ‘pressure’ to
change approaches to
teaching feels like an
encroachment on faculty
rights.”
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Boyer (1990)

22. Why aren’t more faculty interested in
service learning?
“Service learning takes
resources that should be
used elsewhere, for other
purposes.”
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Boyer (1990)

23. Why don’t all SL projects have lasting
benefits for community partners?
True organizational capacity
building is poorly
understood in general and
is inadequately measured
overall in the field of
nonprofit management.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Cordone (2009)

24. Why don’t all SL projects have lasting
benefits for community partners?
Service learning/
volunteerism is
increasingly touted as a
cure for society’s ills—
with little attention to
training for either
volunteers or leaders of
community agencies.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Cordone (2009)

25. What are the risks to the college?
The administration looses
some control over
messaging and public
relations.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Campus Compact (2007)

26. What are the risks to the college?
Community partners may
have quite disparate
experiences with faculty
and students. Once trust is
broken, it is difficult to
repair.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Campus Compact (2007)

27. What are the risks to the college?
Some communities may not
want to be the “objects” of
learning for students.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Campus Compact (2007)

28. What are the risks to the college?
Quality service learning
requires additional support
for faculty, students , and
host sites; this requires
commitment and
resources.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy
Campus Compact (2007)
Campus Compact (2007)

29. Program Proposal: Leadership Through Service
•1500 student participants
•Development for adjunct faculty who will
incorporate SL into at least 30 courses
•Deployment of a comprehensive
leadership programs for students, student
clubs, and community based organizations
•Creation of a mini-grant program for SL
classes and clubs to design and implement
quality projects
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy

30. Leadership Through Service:
Evaluation Questions
Student Impact
To what extent did SL have
an impact on the
civic, social and academic
attitudes and skills of
participating students?
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy

31. Leadership Through Service:
Evaluation Questions
Faculty Impact:
To what extent did the
program have an impact on
teaching and learning in
the classroom?
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy

32. Leadership Through Service:
Evaluation Questions
Community Impact:
To what extent did the
program increase the
capacity of community
based organizations, and
help meet community
needs.
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy

33. Leadership Through Service:
Evaluation Questions
College Impact:
To what extent did LTS lead
to increased use of and
support for SL at MWCC
and increase partnerships
between CBO’s & MWCC?
Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy

34. Leadership Through Service:
Outcome Indicators
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Benefits
Challenges
Response
Boy