Sustaining Service Learning: The Role of Chief Academic Officers

As part of the Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning grant, AACC (American Association of Community Colleges) convened the chief academic officers (CAOs) from colleges it had funded between 1994 and 2000, as well as new AACC grantees for 2000-2003. AACC's previous Horizons grantees comprised faculty and staff who worked on service learning projects. The 2000-2003 program intentionally included CAOs for the first time to build support for the colleges' project teams, to give voice to the CAO perspective, and to learn how these leaders work to institutionalize programs and decide which programs have merit. (authors)