Faculty Service-Learning Guidebook

"This book provides a counter narrative to the idea of higher education as the main driver of epistemological development. The ECCE framework co-created by the authors provides us with a roadmap for designing and implementing community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy that centers community-based knowledge as the north star for addressing the most intractable injustices facing society."

From the Foreword by Christopher Nayve

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword--Christopher Nayve

Land Acknowledgments

Positionality Statement

List of Teaching Tips

Introduction

1: Common Purposes

2: Community Engagement Excellence

Pedagogical Component One: Cultivate

3: Co-Educational Partnerships

4: Cross-Cultural Collaborations

Pedagogical Component Two: Create

5: Course Design

6: COIL and Virtual Exchange Courses

Pedagogical Component Three: Craft

7: Communities of Learning, Leadership, and Empowerment

8: Critical Engagement and Conscientization

Pedagogical Component Four: Compose

9: Community Engaged Scholarship

10: Course Iteration and Equity-Centered Continuation

About the Authors

Index

Christine M. Cress

Christine M. Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership, Higher Education Policy, and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has conducted professional trainings on curricular integration and the scholarship of service-learning at scores of colleges in North America, Europe, Japan, India, and Nepal. Earlier in her career, she was an academic and career adviser at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, and Northwest Indian College. For the last twenty years at PSU, she has directed Master and Doctoral degrees and a fully on-line Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning including facilitation of short-term international service-learning and COIL/Virtual Exchange classes in India, Japan, Morocco, and Turkey. Her cultural privilege is primarily northern European American with Cherokee (non-tribal affiliation) and Sene-Gambian heritage. She is a first-generation college student, adoptee and adoptive parent, and member of a multi-racial lesbian family. These myriad social positions influence her scholarship which addresses intersectionality, systemic oppression, and equity-centered education and community engagement.

Stephanie T. Stokamer

Stephanie T. Stokamer is Associate Professor of Civic Engagement and Director of Applied & Experiential Learning at Pacific University, where she leads the McCall Center for Civic Engagement. With a doctorate in educational leadership from Portland State University, she has facilitated and administered undergraduate and graduate community-based learning programs since 2005. Her scholarship focuses on service-learning and civic engagement, particularly with respect to pedagogical practices and faculty development. She is an AmeriCorps*VISTA alum and former National Service Fellow for the Corporation for National and Community Service. Stephanie comes to this work as a committed ally and accomplice for social justice, with identities rooted in her experience as a cis-gender, heterosexual woman of Anglo heritage.

Thomas J. Van Cleave

Thomas “Tommy” J. Van Cleave (he/him) is an Intercultural Communication Scholar and Faculty Development Consultant. He earned his doctorate in Postsecondary Educational Leadership from Portland State University where he coordinated a graduate degree in international civic engagement and taught graduate courses on curriculum development and community engagement. He has facilitated or co-facilitated immersive and international civic engagement courses throughout the United States and in India, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Italy. He is strongly influenced by his Latinx/Mexican family heritage and queer identity. He also recognizes his cultural privilege as a cis-male descendant of homesteaders with northern European roots who ‘settled’ West via the Oregon Trail. The confluence of identities, both marginalized and privileged, shapes his work in creating experiences that disrupt the status quo and encourage new and more just ways of knowing.

Joyce P. Kaufman

Joyce P. Kaufman is Professor Emerita of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for Engagement with Communities at Whittier College. Since retiring from Whittier College in 2019, she has continued to engage with her various communities, both in the Eastern Sierra where she now lives, and with colleagues in Washington, D.C., including working with NGOs and community-based organizations to address and help mitigate community violence in the nation’s capital.