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Academic Service Learning
Learn and Serve Grant Program
Phase I
During the first phase of the grant program, “Assessment and
Action Plan Development,” CSU campuses created campus-based
Strategic Action Teams. The purpose of the Strategic Action Team
was to create an advisory board or strengthen an existing advisory
board by having at least one representative of the five major service-learning
stakeholders involved at a leadership level with this grant. At
the minimum, each team’s composition included the campus service-learning
director, an administrator, a community partner, a faculty member,
and a student. In addition, campuses conducted an assessment of
current campus efforts to achieve the steps of the Strategic Plan,
and developed an Action Plan to achieve the steps and goals that
have not yet been achieved.
As a part of the assessment process, the Office of the Community
Service Learning at the Office of the Chancellor designed a rubric
that identifies three stages, “undeveloped, in process, and
accomplished,” for each of the twenty-two steps within the
Strategic Plan. This rubric ensures a consistent assessment process
across the campuses and offers some thoughtful questions to consider
as campuses assessed their efforts. The illustrative descriptions
of the three stages provide specific indicators of each campus’s
current level of progress towards institutionalization. As a result
of the tool, areas of progress and areas that need further attention
as well as best practices have been identified.
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