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Faculty

Faculty members have the opportunity to encourage your students to engage in service opportunities in our community. Below are helpful tips on community service/service learning make advising easier.

Community Service

If your student organization/department is sponsoring a community service event that is 3-5 hours, you can submit an application to have that project count toward their Christian Service Program requirement.
Event request
Email this Community Service Event Request to the Christian Service director two weeks prior to your community service to receive credit. You will be notified within 3 days of submitting your application whether or not your event has been approved.

Service-Learning

To offer your course for service-learning credit you will need to submit a proposal form for the Christian Service Committee to review.

Proposal- Email the Christian Service director for a course proposal form. You will submit this, along with your syllabus and any documents explaining and assessing your reflection component(s) during the first semester prior to the school year that you plan to implement your course.  This will allow enough time to make the necessary changes in the catalog.

Faculty Development Presentations

Learn what other classes and professors are doing for Service-Learning.

11/8/23 - Cheryl Craven, Blake Laing, Randy Craven, Laurie Stankavich - Service Learning: Professor Profiles
Do students have course options in your academic discipline for service-learning?

Service-learning is an educational methodology, which combines student service experiences in the community with explicit academic learning objectives, and deliberate reflection.

Hear from three professors about the service-learning experiences they provide through their SERV-2 designated courses.

Watch presentation here.
2/26/25 - Cheryl Craven - Service Learning and the Add-On Class
Do students have course options for service-learning in your academic discipline?

Service-learning is an educational methodology that combines student service experiences in the community with explicit academic learning objectives and deliberate reflection.

Hear from four professors – Tyson Hall, Jay Anders, Sean Walters, and Ben Schnell – about the service-learning experiences they provide through their SERV-2 designated courses.

Watch presentation here.
2/11/26 – Chery Craven – Christian Service: Spotlight on Service-Learning

Do students have course options for service-learning in your academic discipline?

Service-learning is an educational methodology that combines student service experiences in the community with explicit academic learning objectives and deliberate reflection.

Hear from four professors and a special guest Eva Vanhook, Executive Director of Family Promise of Bradley County. Presentations will highlight the application of service-learning in business, applied technology, and nursing disciplines, with a focus on working with nonprofits.

Watch presentation here.