Service Learning Initiative to Offer 2017 Teaching Award and Grants

The University of Arkansas Service Learning Initiative is pleased to announce opportunities for faculty and instructors who are engaged in, or looking to become engaged in, service learning on the University of Arkansas campus. These opportunities include:

• Outstanding Contributions to Service Learning Teaching Award

• Materials and equipment grants

• Domestic travel grants

The goal of the Outstanding Contributions to Service Learning Teaching Award is to recognize teaching in service learning that has positively impacted students and the community. The award will be presented to a course instructor (or co-instructors) who has demonstrated the ability to enrich both course content and the community through the application of service-learning pedagogy.

Materials and Equipment Grants are awarded to help provide financial resources for planning and development of service learning activities and to promote the diffusion of academic ideas related to service learning. Available funds are allocated to support a wide variety of expenses including course curriculum materials, equipment, and electronic technology. Proposals, submitted by existing and new service learning instructors, can be awarded up to $1,500 per course.  

Lastly, the Domestic Travel Grants are presented to support travel for pre-program domestic site visits or for domestic academic conference presentation related to a service learning course. The Service Learning Initiative will consider proposals for up to $1,500 per course.  

The application deadline for the 2017 award nominations and grant proposals is  at 4 p.m. Dec. 1.

To download the application forms with a detailed information on the criteria, eligibility, and material submission guidelines, please go to servicelearning.uark.edu. 

For questions regarding the process, please contact Febriyanti Lestari at svclrn01@uark.edu or Jennie Popp at jhpopp@uark.edu or (479) 575-2279.