Guide: Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum

Posted by on November 8, 2002

The American Association of Community Colleges is pleased to announce the publication of “A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum.” This 86-page guide provides practical, easy-to-use applications for faculty to integrate civic responsibility concepts and practices into their courses. The guide includes more than 40 different exercises, activities, and assessment tools developed by faculty and staff participating in AACC’s national project, Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning.

We hope you will find this guide useful as you develop or enhance service learning and civic responsibility opportunities at your own institution. We encourage you to use the guide in faculty, staff, or community partner training sessions as well as in the classroom. The entire text of this guide, along with other helpful resources and information, may be found on AACC’s Web site at http://www.aacc.nche.edu/servicelearning (click on “publications”).

Additional copies of the guide ($15 AACC members/$20 nonmembers) may be ordered from the Community College Press at 800/250-6557 or aaccpub@pmds.com – request item #1467.

Also available on the Web site are the following recent research and project briefs; click on “publications” to download the eight- to 12-page briefs in PDF format.
– “Institutionalizing Service Learning in Community Colleges”
– “Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2000-2003”
– “Creating Sustainable Service Learning Programs: Lessons Learned from the Horizons Project, 1997-2000”

The civic responsibility guide and other AACC service learning publications and activities are supported by a Learn and Serve America grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. If you have any questions or comments, please contact:
Gail Robinson
Coordinator of Service Learning
American Association of Community Colleges
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20036-1176
Phone 202/728-0200 ext. 254
Fax 202/728-2965
E-mail grobinson@aacc.nche.edu
Web www.aacc.nche.edu/servicelearning