Victoria,
I am also extremely interested in this issue. Here at the U of IL, my
office works completely within the Student Affairs' student union. We are
trying to move more in the direction of service learning but face both real
and imagined obstacles. Recently I have been meeting with a group of
interested faculty on a regular basis to build relationships with them, it
is in the very early stages.
Would you mind posting responses to the entire listserv or directly to me?
Thank you
Tom Shields
At 11:45 AM 1/8/97 -0700, you wrote:
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>Greetings Service/Higher ed colleagues:
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>I am writing with a request for information re: campus governance of projects
>that are integrating service into curriculum.
>The Office of Community Services at Colorado State University has reported to
>the Division of Student Affairs since 1975. We offer students, faculty and
>community members projects all along the continuum of service - from
>traditional volunteerism, extra-curricular service-learning to service
>integrated into academic study.
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>We are currently considering the merit(s) of developing dual reporting lines
>to both Student and Academic Affairs or of breaking off our project that
>links service with academic study to a home within Academic Affairs.
>In particular, we would like to learn what others have experienced as the
>pro's and cons of reporting to Academic Affairs - particularly if your campus
>also offers a well developed extra-curricular Service Center.
>If you have both academic and extra-curricular service "Centers", how do they
>communicate, coordinate, collaborate?
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>Thank you in advance for any information you are able to provide. Please
>feel free to contact me by e-mail or phone.
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>Victoria Keller
>Director
>Office of Community Services
>Colorado State University
>vkeller@vines.colostate.edu
>(970)491-0444
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>
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"..service is the rent that each of us pays for living - the very purpose of
life and not something that you do in your spare time or after you have
reached your personal goals." - Marian Wright Edelman
Thomas Shields, Program Director 295 Illini Union
Office of Volunteer Programs 1401 W. Green St.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801
tpshield@staff.uiuc.edu (217) 333-7424
fax: (217) 244-4294
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