Center for Academic Service-Learning and Research

1. Center for Academic Service-Learning and Research Christ · Scholarship · Community · Service Azusa Pacific University

2. What is Service-Learning? • An experientially based teaching methodology • Combines classroom pedagogy with community service and civic engagement • Inherently integrated into the students’ academic curriculum • A reciprocal effort between faculty, students, and community partners

3. Service-Learning at APU is… • Academic: Committed to quality integration into the academic curriculum • Reciprocal: Committed to mutual teaching and learning • Making a Difference: Committed to creating a common good

4. Mission Statement SERVICE-LEARNING is where the four cornerstones connect. SERVICE-LEARNING builds community by developing positive, reciprocal relationships between APU and the local private and public sectors in order to enhance scholarshipof faculty, students, and community partners through serviceactivities, which integrate faith in Christ with service and learning.

5. 2008-2009 Vision Statement • We in the Center for Academic Service-Learning and Research, always striving to be loving, Christ-centered servants, are committed to supporting effective community outreach that is characterized by creativity, focus, organization, genuine collaboration, and a true appreciation of diversity as we continue to enhance APU’s legacy of excellence in service-learning.

6. Your Experience… Have you integrated service-learning in a course prior to teaching at APU?

7. Functions of Service-Learning

8. Empower Students • Theory to practice • Lifetime of: • Learning • Service • Civic engagement • Faith integration • Intercultural Competence/Diversity

9. Serve Faculty • Transformation of learning outcomes • Strengthening course curriculum • Strengthening pedagogy • Specialized service opportunities • Assistance in reflection and evaluation • Support in research and publication

10. Build Community • University/community collaboration • Inter-university collaboration • Inter-disciplinary collaboration • Measuring community impact

11. Enhance Scholarship • Promote the scholarship of engagement • Support • Learning • Using • Sharing • Conference presentations, undergraduate research, faculty publications, evaluation research

12. Organize for Excellence • Academic unit • Dependent on committed undergraduate and graduate students to: • Organize • Manage • Ensure quality • Recognition: • Our Chapter “Students Training Students” in national publication Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership.

13. Service-Learning Statistics, Fall 2008 • Over 1,200 undergraduate students enrolled in service learning classes • 62 service learning courses, covering a variety of disciplines, 18 of 19 academic departments… • Hundreds ofagency partners annually, providing a broad range of services to meet critical needs across the region, e.g. homelessness, after-school programs, elderly support and special needs children and adults • 35 local public and private schools

14. Faculty Requirements and Service-Learning • Student Outcome Data: Evidence from your service-learning evaluation reports…. • Faith Integration • Diversity • Civic Commitment • Individualized quantitative and qualitative information and analysis

15. Recognition for APU Service-Learning • US News and World Report: APU was recognized as one of the nation’s top 42 schools for Service-Learning • U.S. President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction: For the 3rd year in a row APU was one of 83 universities in the nation granted "Distinction for General Community Service”

16. The Guide to Service-Learning Colleges and Universities: APU, one of 300 universities in the US considered best in service-learning highlighted in Beyond the Books, sent out to high school juniors and seniors, their parents, and high school college career counselors Sold out twice on Amazon.com NOTE: APU photos on Cover… TAP ART PROJECT at Children’s Court

17. Outcomes of Service-Learning: at Home … • Local School District: Good Apple Award… • English 099, Reading and Critical Thinking • Professor Julie Best • McKinley Children’s Center • UBBL 100, Exodus/Deuteronomy • Professor Bobby Duke

18. Local School District: Good Apple Award… • “In recognition of countless hours of support provided to the students of Charter Oak Unified School District in need of additional assistance • in reading” • Quotes from APU students: • “The experience in class and teaching has attached itself in my brain; I cannot even forget what I learned in class because I used it in real life.” • “Seeing that Julian has gotten better at reading has made me want to read more, because maybe if I read more than I will get better at reading.” • “Most of all, God played a big role in shaping me by knocking down my wall of pride, shyness, and selfishness by making me a better person.”

19. McKinley Children’s Center • “Thank you for your assistance and support of the Spiritual Care Program.” • Quotes from APU students: • “The setting was awesome for me. It took me out of my comfort zone.” • “Seeing the kids smile when we entered the Center.” • “Learning about other's lives so different from ours.” • “It made my main motivation to bless the children and obey the Lord rather than just get ministry credits.”

20. … …and Abroad… Principles and Practice of Community Engagement: South Africa Semester • Reciprocity: “The greatest value to me in the service learning course was being able to learn so much from the people we were in contact with.” • Faith: “To form relationships that changed and affect my faith and my actions.” • Calling: “I believe that as Christians we are called to do what we did in our service learning project not just for a month but for a lifetime. In this way my experience there was an experience that better shaped my ideas of what I feel called to do.”

21. Center for Academic Service-Learning and Research Phone: 626-815-6000 ext 2823http://www.apu.edu/caslr/ We are located in Magnolia Court (Shire Mods) East of the Baseball field Thank You!