Lewis-Clark State College

Roles and Responsibilities

Students will:

Attend agency orientation at scheduled time.

Sign agreement with agency partner.

Track hours using hour log sheet ,or another method specified in the course syllabus.

Maintain regular communication with agency partner regarding service hours and activities (recommended beginning, middle and end of semester AT THE MINIMUM).

Respect rules, regulations, and confidentiality standards of agency

Participate in reflection activities and assignments.

Complete required amount of service hours and/or service project.

Evaluate SL experience and the agency partner.

Faculty will:

Set learning objectives for the service experience that relate to course objectives.

Identify community issues or service that relates to the class.

Contact agencies to clarify course goals and service expectations.

Adapt syllabus, class assignments, lecture examples and class discussion to include links between course theory and service experience.

Structure and schedule reflection assignments or activities.

Discuss service-learning expectations and requirements, agency orientation dates, deadlines for starting service and evaluation guidelines with service-learners.

Use written agreements, time logs and evaluation instruments recommended by the LCSC-SLP.

Maintain regular contact with agency partners (recommended: beginning, middle and end of semester).

Evaluate student service-learner's experience (service-learning staff can help).

The Agency Partner will:

Designate a SL supervisor to serve as the liaison with the service-learning office, the faculty, and service-learning students.
Follow the recommended agency checklist, including:
- Provide SL project descriptions to the service-learning staff.
- Schedule orientation dates and times to service-learning office.
- Orient students to the agency partner’s rules, policies, procedures, methods and operations, community issue, and population served.
- Sign student agreements and log sheets, which include opportunity for to evaluate the students. Students will supply these forms.
- Check-in formally with the students at regular intervals (recommended: beginning, middle and end of semester AT THE MINIMUM).
- Notify the faculty partner immediately, preferably by phone, on any cause of dissatisfaction or of misconduct on the part of the student.
- Maintain good communication with students, service-learning staff and faculty.
- Offer suggestions and ideas for improvement in our procedures and opportunities.

LCSC Service-Learning Staff will:

Recruit, support and facilitate faculty, students and agency service-learning partnerships.

Find, screen and orient agencies whose needs match class learning objectives.

Provide orientations, trainings and roundtable discussions about service-learning.

Facilitate student placement through classroom visits and agency referral lists, upon request.

Provide contracts and forms that clarify responsibilities and increase accountability.

Support and troubleshoot with students, agencies and faculty.

Evaluate the service-learning experience for students, agencies and faculty.

Maintain regular contact with agency partners, faculty and service-learners (at beginning, middle and end of semester).

E-mail upcoming opportunities and information.

Seek and respond to feedback from agency partners, students and faculty.