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Please fill this out at the end of the semester if you have been involved in a service-learning course or a community-based experience course:

Faculty Evaluation

Standards of service-learning courses (required) meeting the standards below are considered for the designation of service-learning at Canisius College:
  • Identifies and address a need in the community (local, regional, or global)
  • Meets course objectives and demonstrates a clear connection between the community activity and the course content
  • Involves assessment as a part of the student’s overall grade
  • Involves reciprocity between course and community that results in students’ increased civic awareness, leadership, diversity, and engagement
  • Involves structured student preflection and reflection
  • Involves collaboration with a community organization/agency that is committed to a partnership between service and learning
  • Invites the community partner to share in classroom dialogue, discussion, and scholarship
  • Involves up to 20 hours of community engagement (required) outside of the classroom with the community organization/agency
  • Involves an assessment in which students share their experience with the class community and the community organization/agency, discuss connections of global citizenship and responsible leadership, and address a plan for continued engagement (may be done at a variety of levels)
The elements necessary for a community-based experience (optional) are:
  • the experience is connected to a course
  • the community-based experience is an option
  • the experience may be direct or indirect service, or research, or an immersion experience, or an activity which benefits the community
  • reflection on the entire experience and how it connects to the course
*For more information on the difference between service-learning and a community based experience, please click here.

Resources for community-based learning professors:
Resources for faculty members interested in designing a community-based learning course: Resources and Forms Given to Students:
Additional Resources

Refugee Service Brochure (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Tutoring Brochure (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Note for Education Courses:
Community-based learning hours are separate from the 50 hours of required classroom observation. Students may not combine their service hours into the required 50 hours of observation.

Celebration of Gratitude
Recognizing the critical role of faculty in the success of any institution’s service-learning program, the Office of Community-Based Learning will host its Service-Learning Celebration of Gratitude Reception on November 3, 2011 for the fall semster and on April 13, 2012 for the spring semester.