Resources: Student Leadership Development and Service Learning

Posted by on May 6, 2005

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has the following materials on leadership development through service-learning for higher education students that may be helpful to you:

A Guide to Student Leadership Through Service
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=4079

California State University Monterey Bay Service Learning Institute: Program Review Portfolio Appendix
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/?library_id=4552
– this resource has a section which describes California State University at Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Summer of Service Leadership Academy (SoSLA). SoSLA “provides students with prior CSUMB service-learning experience enhanced leadership development and training necessary for successful employment in the University Service Advocate program.”
More details of this program can be found here:
http://service.csumb.edu/programs/student_leadership.html

Building Citizenship: Service-Learning and Student Leadership
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/?library_id=5767

Guidebook for a Service Model of Leadership Development
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/?library_id=239

How Service Learning Affects Students (full text available online)
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/?library_id=6288
– the authors of this study chose leadership as one of the dependent variables (the three measures of leadership they described are growth in interpersonal skills, leadership activities, and leadership ability)

Leadership Training and Service Learning
http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/?library_id=1701

Also, these Effective Practices from the Resource Center may also be helpful to you:

Finding higher education curricular leadership programs
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_33548

Supporting student leadership in higher education service-learning
http://snipurl.com/NSRC_32936