Working with Faculty: Designing Customized Developmental Strategies

In this chapter, we examine our own experiences as service-learning faculty and faculty developers to explore patterns in the dynamics of working with faculty. We share some of our most significant learning through recommendations and questions. As we reflect on our own experiences, we also ask you to engage in a similar analysis of your own faculty, program, and institution. Your reflections on your own story as a community service-learning professional will be helpful here. Through this process, you will both begin to make some of the choices involved in developing your own approaches to working with faculty and come to better understand the choices facing faculty as they integrate service-learning and civic engagement into their courses and research. Ideally, the design of your strategies will be shaped by your understanding of the issues at stake in the design of theirs. [authors]