Service-Learning Integration Faculty Training Program

The Office of the Provost, in collaboration with the Center for Faculty Development and the Division of Volunteer Efforts, is pleased to announce the 2025–26 Service-Learning Integration (SLI) Program. The program is designed to motivate and support faculty in integrating community-engaged service-learning into their Spring 2026 courses. Through a series of structured workshops, faculty participants will gain tools to integrate service-learning activities that reflect already established course learning objectives while also targeting other mission-tied values such as servant leadership, ethical responsibility and cultural humility, as well as transferable skills required in the evolving professional environment such as conflict resolution, communication, or teamwork and collaboration. The program also strategically supports DOVE’s efforts to engage volunteers consistently across the academic year, particularly during the under-resourced Spring semester.

Faculty participants will be supported with consultation to offer seamless and stress-free implementation of service learning into their courses.

Come join us for our first open session to learn how you can support your students in developing as community-engaged servant leaders while delivering your course in Spring 2026.

Program Objectives

• Advance experiential learning and service learning through intentional integration of community-based service and academic instruction
• Promote servant leadership, civic responsibility and ethical development in alignment with the University’s Catholic mission
• Support DOVE and local partners by increasing engagement with service opportunities, especially during the Spring term when volunteerism is reduced relative to the Fall term
• Cultivate student transferable skills — such as collaboration, empathy, and critical thinking — essential for their professional and moral development
• Encourage faculty and academic programs to play a more proactive role in mission-centered curriculum design so that service learning is a universal experience for all students at Seton Hall and reaches past the confines of core curricular requirements

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of the workshop program, faculty members will:

• Attend Four 90-minute workshops in Fall 2025 — all sessions to be held at the DOVE Offices in the lower level of Boland Hall (Campus Ministry entrance, B35).

Open Informational Session on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 — All faculty are welcome!

• Committed Faculty will attend the following sessions:

1. Planning Workshop 1 — Wednesday, October 1, 2025, noon–1:30 p.m.
2. Planning Workshop 2 — Wednesday, October 15, 2025, noon–1:30 p.m.
3. Planning Workshop 3 — Wednesday, November 5, 2025, noon–1:30 p.m.
4. Planning Workshop 4 — Wednesday, December 3, 2025, noon–1:30 p.m.

• Partner with a DOVE-affiliated service opportunity for integration to academic content in order to implement a service-learning component in a Spring 2026 course.
• Design and implement a mission-aligned service-learning experience within their course.
• Develop a variety of tools, techniques and resources to integrate service-based experiential learning activities in alignment with course learning objectives.
• Implement novel methods for assessing student performance in service learning activities.
• Learn new methods to support the administration of service learning and experiential learning programs for course learning outcomes.

Expected Deliverables (participants will choose two):

• Present their program project at an internal or external conference or faculty development program.
• Produce a media/news story to be showcased in collaboration with university's public relations. Deliver in-service to participants in the subsequent year of the program.

Eligibility and Compensation

To be eligible, you must be a full-time university employee and be scheduled to teach a Spring 2026 course where integration of community-level service learning is feasible and encouraged/supported by the department.

• Faculty participants who complete the requirements of the program will be offered a $750 stipend: $250 stipend for Fall workshop participation, and $500 stipend upon successful Spring course implementation.
• Community partner options addressing a variety of social injustices including education and special needs, poverty, food insecurity and more.

Service events (including transportation) arranged for your students hassle free!

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