...like many other instructional methods, it focuses on critical thinking. It adds a component of civic responsibility and reflection. Service Learning makes students into active learners, contributors to solving problems while learning course content.

Below are Northern Virginia Community College faculty who include service learning as part of the courses they teach.

• Bruce Wahl, who teaches Mathematics at Alexandria Campus, has a manual for faculty on his web page.
• Emma Erdahl teaches Biology through the Extended Learning Institute and includes this component in her class and on her web page.

The following are some of the courses at Manassas Campus that include Service Learning:

• All Political Science 211 and 212 classes.

• English taught by Peggy Scolaro and Gay Church

• Health & Wellness taught by Myra Suddreth

• Art History taught by Barbara Lash

The best way to understand service learning is to see how it impacts the students themselves. Click here to see their comments.

The following are links to College organizations that highlight service-learing:

• The Learn & Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is a comprehensive information system that focuses on all dimensions of service learning, covering kindergarten through higher education school-based, as well as community based.
  

• The Service-Learning Home Page, a comprehensive resource hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder, is for anyone interested or active in service-learning. This site contains articles, bibliographies, syllabi, and a calendar of service-learning conferences and events. It also maintains archives of the national service-learning discussion group listserv begun in 1993 and now involving over 1,000 participants.

• SERVEWEB is a listing of state service web sites and other resources in all 50 states.

• The National Society for Experimental Education (NSEE) is a membership association and national resource center that promotes experience-based approaches to teaching and learning.

• The Corporation for National Service (CNS) Learn & Serve America supports service-learning programs in schools, colleges, and community organizations that engage nearly one million youth in service in the areas of education, public safety, the environment, and other human needs.

• The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is a national, peer-reviewed journal for college and university faculty and administrators. The Michigan Journal publishes scholarly articles on issues pertinent to academic service-learning.

• Campus Compact is a coalition of over 620 college and university presidents committed to public and community service.

• Learn about the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) Service Learning Project and its 18-volume monograph series.

• Visit the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Service Learning Clearinghouse.

• The Global Computing List of American Universities provides links to colleges and universities in the U.S., both alphabetically and by state.

• The Virginia Campus Outreach Opportunity League (VA COOL) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to positively affect communities, students and institutions by promoting campus-based community service and service-learning initiatives.

Volunteer offices in the local city and county jurisdictions that serve Northern Virginia Community College are as follows:

• Prince William County Office of Volunteerism
• Volunteer Fairfax
• Arlington Office of Volunteerism
• Alexandria Office of Volunteerism
• Loudoun Office of Volunteerism