The Haas Center for Public Service aims to support faculty engaged service-learning through workshops, advising and funding.
In an effort to raise awareness about the University’s responsibility to communities and organizations involved with public service activities at Stanford, the Haas Center developed the Principles for Ethical and Effective Service in 2002. These principles emerged from a process of consultation with over 75 community participants, faculty, students, and staff. At the Haas Center, the principles inform program design and implementation as we continually work to align our work and guiding values.
Faculty can participate in a multi-session seminar to explore the pedagogy and practice of service-learning. Participants in this multidisciplinary cohort of community-engaged scholars will learn to revise or design a service-learning course and to develop or deepen relationships with community partners. By the seminar’s conclusion, faculty will produce actionable draft syllabi and have the tools to teach rigorous and meaningful service-learning courses.
For more information, see Service-Learning Faculty Development and Course Grants.
Haas Center staff can provide two-hour introductory workshops on the pedagogy of service-learning; this can be done for small groups of faculty or graduate student teaching assistants.
Find out more about how to obtain funding through Service-Learning Faculty Development and Course Grants.
The Haas Center can provide information about agencies and nonprofit community organizations in the Bay Area interested in partnerships with Stanford University.
For more information, contact Luke Terra.
Haas Center staff can meet with individual faculty members who are interested in developing a service-learning course or community-based research project.This individual consultation can provide faculty with an introduction to the broad range of resources available to support students interested in combining service with academic programs.
For more information, contact Luke Terra.
There are many resources for gathering student feedback on service-learning courses available. Here is one sample community-based learning survey. Haas Center staff are also available to meet with individual faculty to discuss assessment tools and we welcome the opportunity to support or participate in your assessment efforts.
For more information, contact Luke Terra.
This toolkit provides definitions, resources, and readings related to engaged scholarship. A print copy of articles referred to in the toolkit is available in the Engaged Scholarship library on the second floor of the Haas Center. Highlights include:
Over 200 service-learning syllabi for courses from Biology to History are available on this national website.
Includes a list of journals that publish community-based research
A national, peer-reviewed journal consisting of articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has an easy-to-use, searchable database of about 1,000 links in over 40 topic areas to high quality websites with information about service-learning courses and community-based research.
CES4Health is a free online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship.
Books, journals, and articles on service-learning, community-based research, civic engagement, and university-community partnerships are available to borrow from the Center. In particular, the Haas Center’s service-learning program hosts the American Association for Higher Education’s set of monographs, Service-Learning in the Disciplines. These resources provide concepts and models for service-learning in many fields. We also have available copies of Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction by Kerissa Heffernan. View a copy of Bringing Best Practices into your Classroom: How to Enhance the Quality of Service-Learning.