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Service-Learning in Maryland's Community Colleges Consortium
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K-12 schools in Maryland have been actively involved in service-learning since 1992. However, Maryland community colleges continue to search for ways to establish and maintain service-learning programs. In an effort to address this issue, the College of Southern Maryland, Carroll Community College, Harford Community College, Howard Community College, and Montgomery College, have collaborated to form Service-Learning in Maryland's Community Colleges Consortium.
The goals of this program are:
- to increase the number of Maryland Community College students participating in service-learning
- to provide faculty incentive and faculty development programs at each participating college
- and to gather data that supports the educational benefits of service learning
The main activities of this program that will help each college reach these goals are faculty training sessions, student service-leadership workshops, ongoing consortium meetings, and community agency partnership fairs. This program is funded with the assistance of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America-Higher Education Consortia grant.
