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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."

 

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 and the Edmonds CC Foundation.

 

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.  Click here to complete an application form. More information are available at 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 can earn 5 credits per quarter during the academic year and meet for eight hours per week. Students can earn up to 15 credits in summer and meet for up to thirty-two hours a week. Click here to learn more.

Pictures of winter quarter LEAF students snow tracking with Cascade Citizens Wildlife Monitoring Project.

 

ReachAbility - Rolling Tritons & Veterans Conservation Corps

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. Rolling Tritons, a wheelchair basketball club, brings adult mentors and youth together to develop social and motor skills. The Veterans Conservation Corps provides opportunities for veterans to earn an AmeriCorps education award and possibly a living stipend while participating in service opportunities in the community.

 

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 the LEAF School; mentoring and tutoring programs on Whidbey Island, at Scriber Lake High School, Lake Stevents High School and in Career Action Center; and engages members of the Rolling Tritons in mentoring activities with youth.

 

 

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