Community-Engaged Learning
Community-engaged learning and service-learning at Buffalo State are driven by faculty who choose to incorporate a community-based learning project into a course that provides students with hands-on opportunities to learn course content while engaging with local communities.
Campus Connection
Faculty who are interested in incorporating service-learning into their classes will be provided with any of the following services:
- assistance in identifying and designing relevant community-based projects
- support for syllabus creation and alterations
- assisting with course conversion and service-learning course designation process
- developing partnerships with community partner agencies, as well as providing community organization contact information
- assistance with coordinating and facilitating faculty and community organization meetings
- ongoing communication with community organizations throughout the semester
- coordinating student schedules and assisting students with logistical arrangements
- problem-solving and troubleshooting issues that arise
- offering student and community partner assessment opportunities to help determine the effectiveness of the service-learning component of your course
- faculty training on service-learning pedagogy and implementation and other professional development opportunities
- identifying resources (articles, books, reflection activity examples) such as our resource library, professional development opportunities and training, new facilitation of the service-learning course designation process, forms, documentation, and assessment and evaluation tools
- networking with Buffalo State University service-learning faculty members and faculty members at other regional institutions through the Western New York Service-Learning Coalition
- recognizing faculty and students who have demonstrated excellence in service-learning at the annual Celebration of Community Engagement