Articles
The following section contains additional resources for service-learning. Readings focus on assessment and impact, principles and best practices, syllabus and course design, inspiration and reflection.
Assessment and impact
At a glance: What we know about the effects of service-learning on college students, faculty, institutions and communities
Impact of service-learning and social justice education on college students’ cognitive development
Service-learning and academic success: The links to retention research
Service-Learning in life-span developmental psychology: Higher exam scores and increased empathy
Implementing service-learning in higher education
The impact of service-learning on ethnocentrism in an intercultural communication course
Principles and best practices
Connecting communities with colleges and universities
Embedded engagement: Communities magnify the value of engaged practices
How higher education is integrating diversity and service-learning: Findings from four case studies
Research university engaged scholarship toolkit
Syllabus and course design
More than 300 exemplary service-learning syllabi across a wide variety of disciplines
Inspiration
To hell with good intentions
Channeling change: Making collective impact work
Reflection
Reflection: Linking service and learning—linking students and communities
Resources that that faculty can use for structuring the reflection process