Spring & Summer Job Opportunities
Facilitating Service-Learning Programs for Young People

Spend a week (or a month or two) this spring or summer helping young people discover how to make a difference in the world! The Civic Education Project (CEP), a leadership and citizenship program at Northwestern University, is NOW HIRING exceptional staff for our Spring & Summer 2008 service-learning programs. Learn more <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs> .

Spring & Summer Programs
CEP offers weeklong field study programs for 9th-12th graders during the academic year, and intensive, three-week service-learning courses for 7th-12th graders during the summer.  CEP programs explore complex social issues through academic study, meaningful service work, and meetings with community leaders, and help teach young people how to apply their skills and abilities to pressing social issues in their own communities.  This year, CEP will offer programs in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco, covering a wide variety of topics, including poverty, homelessness, education, public health, law, politics, leadership, and social change.  Learn more <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs> .

Job Opportunities
We are looking for outstanding teachers from public and private schools and universities, service-learning practitioners, other education, youth development and nonprofit professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students. Instructional, residential, and administrative positions are available, ranging from one-week to eight-week sessions in the spring or summer.  Staff generally receive a cash stipend, room and board, and training in service-learning and experiential education. However, the biggest payoff comes from the opportunity to work with bright, motivated students, build community with passionate, dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable experience educating young people about civic engagement and social responsibility.  Learn more <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs> .

How To Apply
To learn more about CEP programs and staff positions or to apply online, visit our website at: http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs>

Apply Now!  Spring staff consideration has just begun, and summer staff consideration begins February 15, 2008.  Applications are accepted at any time, but are reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received, so candidates are encouraged to apply early to ensure full consideration.

You can be part of creating "eye-opening", "mind-blowing", "life-changing" experiences for young student leaders.

Apply Now! <http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep/jobs>

Association for Psychological Science
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1438

Article titled "Integrating Service-Learning Into Psychology Courses" by Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak.

National Communication Association
www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?bid=315

NCA offers a toolket meant to nurture the development of service-learning in the teaching of communication. PDF version can be downloaded via a link on the website.

Campus Compact
www.compact.org/advancedtoolkit/default.html

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents - representing some 5 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.

This site is designed for college and university presidents, provosts, chief academic officers, and deans who wish to deepen the civic education of their students and to increase the engagement of their institutions with their local communities.

NYLC welcomes you to our new online Resource Center — a highly searchable, interactive service-learning library — at www.nylc.org/resourcecenter

The Resource Center draws upon more than 20 years worth of NYLC writings, including key articles, excerpts from books, research, and training materials; writings by leaders in the service-learning movement; and project examples from across the country. But the Resource Center is not just a place to find materials; it's a place to contribute.

At the NYLC Resource Center, you can …

* Search for information by keywords or use our advanced search to pinpoint precisely what you need.
* Find field-proven project examples that can be adapted to your community and curricular needs.
* Access NYLC Tip Sheets and training materials.
* Save time by using "toolboxes" filled with the best materials on key issues, from getting started to assessment.
* Save documents to "my resources" for easy access from any computers.
* Email links to "my documents" and your favorite toolboxes to friends, colleagues, and students — especially useful for trainers, service-learning coordinators, and others who regularly share resources.
* Contribute by creating toolboxes to share your favorite documents with other users, commenting on existing resources, and submitting examples of successful projects.

The Resource Center
Tools and Training for Volunteer and Service Programs

VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT

Looking for resources about managing your service program members and volunteers? Access the following effective practices below, or find over 100 more on the topic of volunteer management at The Resource Center's Effective Practices Collection.

Using a personal style inventory for volunteer and member development
http://snipurl.com/EPC_1076

Conducting value-based volunteer training
http://snipurl.com/nsrc_33346

Exploring ways volunteer managers can use value-based leadership
http://snipurl.com/nsrc_33345

Creating a member development plan
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33374

Changing from staff supervision to a team-based system
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33368

Cultivating creative followers with a shared leadership model
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33598

Promoting volunteer leadership
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33121

Matching the right volunteer with the right assignment
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33114

Preventing volunteer burnout
http://snipurl.com/nsrc_33299

Creating imaginative recognition events for senior volunteers
http://snipurl.com/nsrc_33297

Steven Padilla - Effective Practices Collection
1-800-860-2684 x146 - http://www.nationalservice.gov/resources/

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has several relevant fact sheets:

http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/fact_sheets/he_facts/he_ops/index

Risk Management and Liability in Higher Education Service-Learning:
http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/fact_sheets/he_facts/risk_mgmt/

Research Standards and Protection of Human Subjects:
http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/fact_sheet/he_facts/standards/index/php

The University of Wisconsin-Madison:

Below are examples of guidelines developed by UWM:
http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/communitymanual/section2.html#using14

These are taken from Service-Learning and Community-Based Research Manual:
http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/communitymanual/index.html

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Community-Campus partnerships for Health is a non-profit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info

CCPH is the Higher Eduction Senior Program Advisor for the Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearninghouse. Visit the Clearinghouse at www.servicelearning.org

Research/Publishing Opportunities

Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
Spring/Summer 2005 issue (Vol 10, No. 2)

A special issue sponsered by the Annie E Cassey Foundation and focusing on colleges and universities as economic anchors and engines.

Article Titles Include:

Some Unexpected Ways Universities can Prime the Community Economic Engine: Asset Building for the Working Poor and the University Back Office

Factors Influencing Civic Engagement at Australian and US Research Universities: Two Illustrative Examples

Institutions of Higher Education as Engines of Small Business Development

Organizing Partnerships for Sustainable Community Economic Development: Lessons Learned from the University of Illinois-Chicago Neighborhoods Initiative

A Promising Tool for Helping Vulnerable Workers? An Exploration of the Use of Employee Assistance Programs to Help Low-Wage Workers on College Campuses

Just Good Business: Community Development within Colleges and Universities

East Baltimore Revitalization Project: Opportunities and Challenges in Transforming an Urban Neighborhood

The Cornell Urban Scholars Program: Cultivating New York City's Next Generation of Civic Leaders

The Next Wave: Building a University Civic Engagement Service for the 21st Century

For information about the Journal and to access submission info, visit http://www.uga.edu/jheoe/submissions
or email Vivian H. Fisher, Journal Business Manager, at jheoe@uga.edu or vhfisher@uga.edu

Methods in Community-based Participatory Research for Health
Edited by Barbara A. Israel DrPH, Eugenia Eng DrPH, Amy J. Schulz PhD, Edith A. Parker DrPH

Written by distinguished experts in the field, this book shows how researchers, practitioners, and community partners can work together to establish and maintain equitable partnerships using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to increase knowledge and improve health and well-being of the communities involved.  What distinguishes CBPR from other approaches to research is the active engagement of all partners in the process.  

This book provides a comprehensive and thorough presentation of CBPR study designs, specific data collection and analysis methods, and innovative partnership structures and process methods. This book informs students, practitioners, researchers, and community members about methods and applications needed to conduct CBPR in the widest range of research areas?including social determinants of health, health disparities, health promotion, community interventions, disease management, health services, and environmental health.

To order a copy:

CCPH members and listserv subscribers receive a 15% discount when you order through Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/josseybass.html

The site also includes other recommended Jossey-Bass titles in CBPR, service-learning and related topics (although the discount is provided for any and all Jossey-Bass books).
Consider adopting the book as a text for a class you teach.

For examination request, please email Jessica Egbert at jegbert@wiley.com.  Please include the following information: course name, estimated class size, date when taught, institution name, mailing address, phone number, and email.

Stay on top of the latest news and funding announcements in CBPR:  Join the free CBPR listserv today at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

American Association of Higher Education
This is an 18-volume series designed to provide resources to faculty wishing to explore community-based learning in and through the individual academic disciplines. Currently exists for the following subjects: accounting, biology, communication studies, composition, engineering, environmental studies, history, management, medical education, nursing, peace studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, Spanish, teacher education and womens' studies. (The monograph series is available in Belk Library. Search by author AAHE to locate.)

National Campus Compact
Includes sample syllabi, information on civic engagement and campus-community partnerships.

International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership

Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning
This journal seeks papers that pertain to research, theory, pedagogy and other matters related to academic service learning in higher education.

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Contains information on national service-learning funding opportunities and resources for faculty.

National Service Learning list serve and Web site
Includes bibliographies, sample syllabi, service learning discussions and helpful links.

National Society for Experiential Education
Includes information on publications and resources, conferences and special projects.

UCLA Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project
Provides resources on Service Learning and focuses on higher education.

"Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators"
Written and compiled by Julie Reed and Christopher Koliba. Click on the title to go to the manual.  The manual includes different reflection activities to use with students as well as information on additional alternative forms of reflection.