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Duke Program in Education

Welcome to Duke's service-learning community!

A primary goal of the Service-Learning Program is to provide support and assistance to departments, programs, and individual faculty members seeking to integrate service-learning into their academic objectives.

We offer the following resources:

  1. E-newsletter: Our e-newsletter alerts faculty and staff to new initiatives, opportunities, and resources on campus and beyond. Click here or to subscribe.

  2. Individual consultations: Our faculty consultants are available to discuss course & syllabus design, community partnerships, critical reflection,assessment, and other issues. to arrange a meeting.

  3. Professional development and networking opportunities: We offer a series of roundtable discussions and workshops for you to connect with colleagues, share successes and challenges, and take away new ideas and resources for connecting civic engagement to the curriculum. Subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive our news & announcements.

  4. Assistance with community partnerships: Our staff would be happy to help you identify potential community partners for your course. We also have a number of tools and checklists (some available here) to help you develop a strong, lasting partnership.

  5. Financial support: We have a limited amount of funding available to support service-learning courses, research, and professional development. Course enhancement funds are available in conjunction with new requests for the SL label, while applications for supplemental funds (at right) are accepted on an ongoing basis.

  6. Service-learning graduate assistants (SLGAs): SLGAs assist service-learning faculty with community partner placements, student reflection, and other tasks. SLGAs are federal work-study positions. Faculty are invited to apply for SLGAs each semester.

  7. Ready-to-use instructional materials: Looking for an activity to generate discussion about the nature of service? Journal prompts to facilitate reflection? A rubric for assessing civic learning? We have a wealth of material available (some here).

  8. Classroom presentations: Our faculty consultants would be glad to tailor a presentation to the needs of your students, e.g., a general orientation to service-learning or a session on working in the community.

  9. Assessment tools & data: In addition to offering suggestions and resources for assessing student learning and community partnerships, we invite service-learning instructors to collaborate with us in assessing the outcomes of service-learning for the Duke community. Contact , Faculty Consultant, for more information.

  10. Trained reflection facilitators: We sponsor the student group LEAPS (Learning through Experience, Action, Partnership, and Service), a network of peer facilitators who can train your best students to lead high quality reflection sessions in your course.

  11. Publicity: We advertise service-learning courses on our website, in the Chronicle, at student events, and in fliers distributed around campus.

An Invitation to Service-Learning

This seven-minute video highlights best practices of North Carolina faculty who have made significant contributions in the field of service-learning and community engagement, including our own Betsy Alden.

Get involved:

  • to arrange a meeting. We'd love to hear your ideas.

  • Subscribe to our e-newsletter and receive our news & announcements.

  • Attend an upcoming event to learn more about a topic of interest.

  • Request the service-learning label for your course.

Supplemental funding for service-learning courses

Thanks to the continued support of Trinity College and the Office of the Provost, we are able to accept requests for supplemental service-learning funds on an ongoing basis.

As opposed to course enhancement funds for new SL courses, supplemental funds may be requested in amounts up to $500 for expenses related to existing service-learning courses or for professional development or scholarly work related to service-learning or civic engagement.

Applications (below) are reviewed and decisions communicated on a rolling basis.

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