• Providing access to community issues and settings that might become the focus of discipline-driven research projects.
• Developing community relationships that might lead to collaboration in community-based research or participatory action research aimed at (a) addressing the community’s need for directly useful knowledge and (b) meeting the faculty member’s goal to contribute to his/her discipline
• Providing opportunities for research on alternative methods of teaching in one’s discipline

The Faculty Learning Community for Service Learning is an interdisciplinary group of faculty members who engage in an active, collaborative, yearlong program focusing on service learning as a pedagogical approach and as an avenue for scholarly work. The FLC supports the creation of engaged teaching and learning that links “real-world” community service experience with classroom instruction and guided reflection. In addition, the FLC promotes rigorous research that will lead to a broader and deeper understanding of the value of service learning in the context of campus-community engagement.

The primary goal of this FLC for the 2009-2010 academic year is to produce two scholarly articles on service learning for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Alternatively, FLC members will make at least two conference presentations.

2009-2010 Facilitator: Dr. Paul Jacques, Associate Professor of Management and Former Service-Learning Faculty Fellow – College of Business