Haas Center Resources for Stanford Faculty
Faculty Forum in Public Service Education.These quarterly lunches provide a regular opportunity for faculty from across disciplines to share ideas and experiences related to service-learning pedagogy and community-based research.
Workshop on Fundamentals of Service-Learning.
Haas Center staff can provide two-hour introductory workshops on the pedagogy of service-learning; this can be done for small groups of faculty or graduate student teaching assistants.
Individual Consultation .
Haas Center staff can meet with individual faculty who are interested in developing a service-learning course or community-based research project. This individual consultation can provide faculty with an introduction to the broad range of resources available to support students interested in combining service with academic programs.
Grants.
Find out more about how to obtain funding through the Service-Learning Course Initiative- Faculty Support & Resources. Download the current RFP for Service-Learning courses here.
Download the current RFP for Community-Based Research here [PDF format].
Print Resources.
Books, journals, and articles on service-learning, community-based research, civic engagement, and university-community partnerships are available to borrow from the Center. In particular, the Haas Center’s Service-Learning program hosts the American Association for Higher Education’s set of monographs, Service-Learning in the Disciplines. These resources provide concepts and models for service learning in the following fields:
Currently Shelved:
Accounting
Communication Studies
Composition
Engineering
History
Management
Nursing
Peace Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Religious Studies
Sociology
Spanish
Teacher Education
Women’s Studies
On Order:
Biology
Environmental Studies
Lodging, Foodservice and Tourism
Medical Education
Psychology
Click here for a copy of Bringing Best Practices into your Classroom: How to Enhance the Quality of Service-Learning.
Information about Community-Based Organizations.
The Haas Center can provide information about agencies and non-profit community organizations in the Bay Area interested in partnerships with Stanford University.
Roland Volunteer Service Prize.
The Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize recognizes "Stanford faculty who—over and above their normal academic duties—engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant volunteer service to society." The prize and a $5,000 cash award are presented each April in conjunction with Community Day/Founder’s Day festivities.
Assessment.
Resources for gathering student feedback on service-learning courses are available. Click here for a link to a sample community-based learning survey. Center staff are available to meet with individual faculty to discuss assessment tools.
For informtion about any of these resources, please contact
Karin Cotterman at karinc@stanford.edu.