Service-Learning Goals and future projects
Create an inventory of service-learning efforts already underway
Research service-learning models at other campuses
Benchmark visit to CSU, Monterey Bay
Develop Web-site of MJC service-learning activities
Develop networks of schools, agencies and other institutions of higher education to implement and assess/evaluate the needs and outcomes of service-learning
Gather a list of community-based organizations that will serve as sites for campus service-learning efforts
Integrate service-learning into additional courses across the curriculum in a variety of academic and vocational disciplines
Develop a generic service-learning course that will make students aware of opportunities in the community (course will include service-learning activity with weekly debriefing session)
Support systems that will promote the institutionalization of service- learning including a database, handbook, best practices and a variety of instructional tools & materials
Present to Fall Institute Day so that interested faculty might engage in service-learning through the curriculum
Promotion of the service-learning opportunity to the entire student population
Employ promotional tools through ASMJC, student clubs and the classroom to engage students in service learning opportunities across campus and in the community
Implement a campus-wide tracking system that documents student, faculty, community and citizen benefits of this project
Develop an on-line database that will track service learning connections and their results. Share this data regularly with campus and community stakeholders
Create and fund a Service-Learning Center to carry out the tasks enumerated above
Develop on-line “virtual center” that will point students in the direction of opportunities, share strategies with faculty for creation of new opportunities and link students and faculty with the community organizations that host service learners
