Service Learning is an important part of the UC|21 General Education Plan and the Integrated Core Learning initiative.  We believe your experience will be rewarding, offering you many opportunities to grow and learn. Our mission is to serve and support our students, faculty, and community partners to ensure that the Service Learning experience benefits everyone. Please contact our office if we can assist you in the Service Learning experience. The Office of Academic Community Partnerships is located in the Center for Community Engagement, and is a division of the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost. Michael Sharp, the Associate Director of Academic Community Partnerships, collaborates with the Service-Learning Advisory Council to support community-engaged teaching and learning at UC.  Watch the news and announcements section on this website for upcoming workshops and other service-learning events.

Mission and Values

The office of Academic Community Partnerships will help oversee community engaged teaching and learning within Academic Affairs and will further help to continue the development of its programs and resources, including assessment of its activities.  This office will be responsible for helping to guide the development, implementation, and assessment of interdisciplinary, community engaged, and experientially grounded courses for a growing number of students throughout the university community.  Some of the specific responsibilities will include:

• Working with faculty members and community partners to craft mutually beneficial on-going projects for students
• Increasing faculty, student, and community support for a community-engaged teaching and learning academic model
• Assessing outcomes for students, faculty, and community partners
• Disseminating ideas and findings to faculty, students, and community partners
• Representing the ongoing and emerging role of community engagement and experiential learning within the Integrated Core Learning initiative and UC|21
• Participating in the growing national and international conversation on the pedagogy of community-engaged teaching and learning.

Now is the time to re-imagine how Service Learning could fit into your course! The Provost Office is coordinating the semester conversion process that will indeed serve as a catalyst, an opportunity to reexamine and redesign curricula, re-engineer degree programs, revisit credit-hour requirements, and recalibrate the expected learning outcomes of our degree programs. Our conversion from quarters to semesters truly means a transformation of teaching and learning at UC. Please visit the Semester Conversion Homepage and the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and also contacty Michael Sharp for more information.