SL Designation recognizes the meaningful educational and community impacts of instructors and students.
A Service-Learning Designation highlights courses that
1) integrate the essential practices for teaching with high-impact service-learning and
2) incorporate activities that qualify as service-learning.
Quick Links
- Apply for SL Designation by completing this SL Plan or the Fast Track application.
- Skim the SL Designation Approval Checklist
- Learn more about the benefits of SL Designation.
Steps
To apply for SL designation, follow these steps.
- Draft a SL Plan or complete a Fast Track application. This process helps you integrate all of the Service-Learning essential practices.
- Translate your SL plan into a SL assignment to share with students, or integrate your SL Plan into your syllabus, as appropriate.
- Send your SL Plan and SL assignment (or syllabus) to the Service-Learning Director (email karabrascia@boisestate.edu).
The SL Director will distribute your SL documents to the faculty review committee for feedback and approval. The reviewers use this SL Designation Approval Checklist. The SL faculty committee reviews applications on a rolling basis.
Special Designation Process for “SL Labs”
When a new one-credit SL course (SL Lab) is being created, the SL Director sends the instructor’s SL documents, along with the reviewers’ approval, to the department chair who will make a recommendation concerning whether the SL Lab should be created. The proposal will then be forwarded to the dean. The dean will make the final determination whether the new SL Lab should be created and receive Service-Learning designation.
– Approved by the Board of Education Fall 1998.