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That was really easy, actually.
They did a presentation and I immediately--
I was incoming faculty, so it was part of my
orientation -- and I immediately said, ‘I want
to do this,’ because I’d known all along that
that was how I liked to teach my classes,
and finding that there was a support base
here on campus that would help me in a
community that I was brand new to.
And it was the perfect way to be ushered
into a community which didn’t know me
and I didn’t know them.
And suddenly here’s a center with all the contacts.
So I started working with them -- that was the
fall quarter of last year -- getting ready for
a winter quarter first service learning foray
out into the community.
So after I did that, it was easier for myself
to do service learning that wasn’t even
connected sometimes to the Center.
There were certain groups that I wanted
to reach that they weren’t associated with.
So I felt very comfortable after that
just calling these groups saying,
‘here’s what I want to do,
here’s what I’m offering my students’.
And once I had that paradigm set up with
the Service Learning Center, then it was
really easy for me to do it on my own.
So now about 50% of my classes don’t go
through the Service Learning Center at all,
but they follow the service learning model.