Related Links

Campus Resources:

• Boiler Volunteer Network
  The purpose of Boiler Volunteer Network (BVN) is to provide a  volunteer clearinghouse on campus to connect Purdue University students, faculty, staff, and retirees with community service and campus volunteer opportunities and to create and implement a variety of service experiences.
• Center for Instructional Excellence
  The Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE) promotes instructional excellence at Purdue University by serving as a catalyst to advocate, develop, and implement continuous improvement in teaching and learning.
• EPICS
  EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.
• Office of Community Relations and Visitor Information Center
  

National and International Resources:

• Action Without Borders
  A premier website for finding service projects in your community.
• America Counts
  Federal Work-Study funds support 100% of the hourly rate for college students to tutor youth, grades 7-12, on math skills.
• Association of American Colleges and University (AACU)
  Supports Service-Learning as an important strategy to develop civic responsibility as a characteristic of undergraduate liberal education.
• Break Away
  This website gives you opportunities to serve during school breaks.

• Campus Compact
  This website contains everything you need to know about Service-Learning on campus.
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
  Focuses on building mutually beneficial partnerships with the community to address health issues. Excellent website resources on Service-Learning and community partnerships.
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Educators for Community Engagement
  A national group of faculty committed to integrating service into academic study. An annual "National Gathering for Service-Learning Educators" is held each summer to discuss key issues in Service-Learning, community partnerships, and social issues.
  
• Global Volunteers
  This website shows you how you can serve while you travel the world.
• Habitat for Humanity
  This website will help you find Habitat for Humanity building opportunities in your community.
• International Partnership for Service-Learning
  IPS-L coordinates programs that unite academic study and community service, making the two activies more relevant and enriching. This site includes information on undergraduate and graduate programs in 14 countries.
• National Commission on Service-Learning
  The Commission was established to bring a new level of public commitment to Service-Learning.
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
  This website has a large array of Service-Learning information, K-Higher Education.
• National Society for Experiential Education
  Includes information about various experiential education methods, including Service-Learning.
  
• Service-Learning - Student's Guide & Journal
  This website offers the "Service-Learning - Student's Guide & Journal" for working with students, K-12.
• The Big Dummy's Guide to Service-Learning
  This site is organized around frequently asked questions and divided into faculty and programmatic issues. Includes "101 Ideas for Combining Service and Learning" in various disciplines.
  
• Volunteer Match
  Excellent website for finding service projects in your community. 

Service-Learning Publication Resources:

Several opportunities exist to present and publish Service-Learning scholarships in the areas of experiential learning, research in higher education, and community service. There are more than 50 scholarly journals that invite Service-Learning related publications, including:

• Advances in Service-Learning Research Book Series

• Innovative Higher Education

  International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship
• International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SoTL)*
  
• International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship*
• Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
• Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Michigan Journal for Community Service-Learning*
  Publishes papers relevant to the field of community Service-Learning, focusing on higher education and readership of faculty and administrators.
• Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy

*Note these scholarly publications are at the forefront of service-learning pedagogy and hold the most weight in terms of peer review.