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KyCC assists presidents and institutional leaders in thinking about how to carry out the civic purposes of a college or university. Visit our President's Resources page for access to speeches, papers and other valuable information.

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KyCC aims to support service-learning and community service staff who work with faculty and administrators on individual campuses. Visit our SL/CS Staff Resources page for work being done by colleagues, effective practices, and access to technical assistance and funding.

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KyCC considers it a priority to assist faculty who seek to integrate service-learning and community engagement into their teaching and research. Visit our Faculty Resources page on resources on how to integrate service-learning into your curriculum, examples of service-learning, and funding opportunities.

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Feel strongly about being an active citizen on campus and in the community? Visit our Student Resources page for ideas to bring to campus as well as ways to get involved at the state and national levels.
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VISTA Grants Still  Available to SL Staff!  Learn more.

KyCC provides support for service-learning, community service, and civic engagement staff.

We do this by providing service-learning workshops for your institution, providing gatherings of staff from around the Commonwealth, and by providing a consultant corps (currently in development.)

The commonly asked questions we get from service-learning, community service, and civic engagement staff are:

Are there funding opportunities?

What program ideas are there?

Are there Professional Development Opportunities for me?

 

Are there funding opportunities?

Currently, KyCC has the following funding opportunity for KyCC members:

  • VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America).   Full-time VISTA member can help build the capacity of your institution in using service-learning as a teaching methodology. $5,500 cash match required. VISTA slots granted on a first-come first-served basis.  Learn more about VISTA grants.

Other Sources of Funding:
Funding sources will be posted as they become available.


 
What program ideas are there?

On the members page, (put link here) there are links for service-learning, community service, and civic engagement offices in Kentucky. Please check out what your colleagues are doing.

The 2005 US News & World Report issued the top 10 higher education offices for service-learning.  The following are the top-ranked institutions according to US News and World Report Ranks Higher Education on Service-Learning. Specific information on S-L can be found in their respective homepages.

  1. Berea College, KY
  2. Stanford University, CA
  3. University of Pennsylvania
  4. Portland State University, OR
  5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  6. University of Utah
  7. University of Notre Dame, IN
  8. Indiana U-Purdue U-Indianapolis
  9. Trinity College (CT)
  10. Bentley College (MA)
  11. Brown University (RI)
  12. Georgetown University (DC)
  13. Providence College (RI)
  14. Elon University (NC)
  15. University of Southern California
  16. Warren Wilson College (NC)
  17. Alverno College (WI)
  18. Cornell University (NY)
  19. Vanderbilt University (TN)
  20. Tufts University (MA)
  21. Augsburg College (MN)
  22. Defiance College (OH)
  23. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  24. University of California-Berkeley
  25. University of Maryland-College Park

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is funded by the Corporation for National Community Service (CNCS) and provides links to publications, newsletters and databases. CNCS grantees and sub-grantees are able to receive resources from the Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse has an effective practices section with resources for higher education.

NOTE:  Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Library has a new e-Library feature!  Now you can more easily locate full-text documents available from. New links take you to collections of full-text articles, tool kits, and PowerPoint presentations and our new e-Library search makes it easier to find other materials in our Library catalog that you can print and use immediately.

 



Are there Professional Development Opportunities for me?

Check out our clearinghouse of upcoming conferences and workshops.

 


 
 

 
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