The Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning invites faculty to explore a high-impact practice that empowers students to make significant contributions to their community, instills purposeful civic learning, and enhances student learning, empathy, and professional portfolio, all while receiving $750 in professional development funds.

During the three-part fall Service-Learning Faculty Development Grant seminar series, faculty will learn the basics of service-learning and how it can enhance other types of service such as volunteering, internship, and capstone experiences; devise service activities for students that includes direct service, research, advocacy, or indirect-service; design reflection activities that are fun and enhance student learning; explore service possibilities with a community benefit organization; and explore how service-learning can help meet promotion and tenure plans. Participants have said this workshop is fun, interactive, engaging, activity-based and rich.

Additional funding opportunities for piloting a new service-learning class and/or developing an "S" (service-learning) designated course will be available to seminar participants and their departments.

Review the Request for Proposals and submit via Adobe Sign. There you will read more about the seminar requirements and how to submit the simple two-page narrative application and grant cover page.

The deadline to submit your application is 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, but you are strongly encouraged to apply sooner for early consideration.

For more information, contact Benjamin Boone, service-learning faculty mentor, at bboone@csufresno.edu or Mellissa Jessen-Hiser, Richter Center interim director, at mjessen@mail.fresnostate.edu.