Publications Available Through the OSL
A small reading room is maintained in the OSL for use by faculty and students. It contains books on developing service-learning courses, partnering with the community, using reflective writing, and assessment. A select file of opportunities with international non-profit agencies is maintained as well. A sample of publication titles is listed below:

Course Materials
Campus Compact. Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit: Readings and Resources for Faculty. Providence: Campus Compact, 2003.

A compilation of articles designed to educate faculty about the service-learning approach to education.

Heffernan, Kerrissa. Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction. Providence: Campus Compact, 2001.

Based on a review of more than 900 service-learning syllabi, Heffernan demonstrates how faculty develop service-learning courses, from course construction to implementation. Includes model syllabi from a wide range of disciplines.

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Service-Learning Course Design Workbook. Ann Arbor: OCSL Press, Summer 2001.

This workbook discusses the conceptualization of service-learning and provides a series of worksheets to help novice and experienced faculty develop a foundation for designing and developing a service-learning course.

Reflection
Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.

A guide to creating "interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities" in writing across disciplines.

Gottschalk, Katherine and Keith Hjortshoj. The Elements of Teaching Writing: A resource for instructors in all disciplines. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2004.

This book is designed as a resource to help teachers improve the writing of their students within their academic disciplines.

Oakes, William. Service-Learning in Engineering: A Resource Guidebook. Providence: Campus Compact, 2004. (Also available on-line at: http://www.compact.org/publications/detail/service-learning_in_engineering)

This guidebook focuses on reform efforts in engineering education and provides a template for faculty and administrators interested in service-learning as a way to meet ABET accreditation criteria which require inclusion of professional skills, such as teamwork and awareness of social issues, into engineering curricula.

Assessment
Gelmon, Sherril B., Barbara A. Holland, Amy Driscoll, Amy Spring and Seanna Kerrigan. Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Principles and Techniques. Providence: Campus Compact, 2001.

Provides strategies for assessing the effectiveness of service-learning courses.

General
Battistoni, Richard M. Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: A Resource Book for Service-Learning Faculty in all Disciplines. Providence: Campus Compact, 2004.

Provides a means of tying service-learning practices with civic education as a means of incorporating civic engagement into course goals.

Battistoni, Richard M., Sherril B Gelmon, John Saltmarsh, Jon Wergin and Edward Zlotkowski. The Engaged Department Tool Kit. Providence: Campus Compact, 2003.

This toolkit provides a blueprint for departments for developing ". . . strategies to (1) incorporate community-based work into their teaching and scholarship, (2) include community-based experiences as a standard expectation for majors, and (3) develop a level of unit coherence that will allow them to successfully model civic engagement and progressive change on the departmental level."

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan.

A definitive source for scholarly research in the field of service-learning, the MJCSL is published twice yearly (November and March).