Center for Service Learning

Service-Learning:
Making a Difference in Your World!

The Center for Service-Learning at Edmonds Community College provides support for service-learning courses and events at the college and in the community. The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse describes service learning as "a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities."

Service-Learning Workshop – March 25, 2008

In partnership with the Whidbey Institute at Chinook the Center for Service-Learning invites K-16 faculty, staff, students, and community partners to join us for a service-learning workshop. The workshop will offer introductory and advanced sessions for service-learning practitioners, a service-learning project, and an opportunity for teams to work together to plan service-learning curriculum. $25 fee. For more details click here.

To register: email a registration form to info@whidbeyinstitute.org or call 360-341-1884.

Students in Service

A Campus Compact AmeriCorps Education Award program that provides incentives for higher education students to serve their communities by offering scholarships of $1,000 - $2,362. Students participate in community service, service-learning or civic engagement activities. Volunteer projects support education, public safety and environmental initiatives, homeland security, and human needs on campus and in the community. Apply online here.

Call Sharon Stultz at (425) 640-1882 or email at sharon.stultz@edcc.edu. Learn more at www.studentsinservice.org.

LEAF School

The Learn-and-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School provides students with the opportunity to earn academic credit and an AmeriCorps' education award while assisting local government, tribes, businesses and non-profit agencies with environmental stewardship. To participate enroll in Anthropology 101 (Human Ecology I), Anthropology 102 (Human Ecology II), and/or Anthropology 103 (Human Ecology III). Students earn 5 credits in spring and fall and meet for eight hours per week. Students earn 15 credits in summer and meet for thirty-two hours a week. Click here to learn more.
Call Thomas Murphy at 425-640-1076 or email tmurphy@edcc.edu.

ReachAbility

A participant in the American Association of Community College's Project Reach, ReachAbility seeks to involve students with disabilities in service-learning experiences. We offer faculty professional development opportunities. Students and community members can get involved with Cornerstone Training. They learn the skills needed to volunteer on worksites hosted by Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County. Rolling Tritons, a wheelchair basketball club, brings adult mentors and youth together to develop social and motor skills.

Call Thomas Murphy at 425-640-1076 or email tmurphy@edcc.edu.

Retention Project

A Washington Campus Compact program that supports the success and retention of disadvantaged youth and first-generation college students through mentoring, tutoring, and service-learning opportunities. The Retention Project supports a mentoring and tutoring program on Whidbey Island and engages members of the Rolling Tritons in mentoring activities with youth.

Call Brian Hall at (425) 640-1866, or email brian.hall@edcc.edu.

Accomplishments and Support

In the past five years, the center has hosted nine full-time AmeriCorps members and provided $250,000 in part-time AmeriCorps education awards to 200 students. The Center has brought an average of $110,000 in grants to the college per year, hosted three regional service-learning workshops, and supported an average of 525 service-learning students who provided nearly 30,000 hours of service to 57 campus and community partners per year. These efforts have been recognized nationally with a Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from Campus Compact and a Service-Learning Collaboration Award from the Community College National Center for Community Engagement.

Support for these programs comes from Washington Campus Compact, American Association of Community Colleges, Edmonds CC Foundation, Associated Students of Edmonds CC and Edmonds CC Vice-President of Instruction.