Community Partnership for USL Courses
IMPORTANT!
USL students must:
- engage in activities that support community outreach serving a population in need
- not be assigned clerical, general office, accounting/bookkeeping, data entry, or administrative assistant-type tasks.
Important Dates
Spring '13 Application Deadline
January 7, 2013. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. For greatest exposure, apply as far ahead of the semester as possible.
Upcoming Semester Dates
Spring (15 weeks): Jan 7 - Apr 30, 2013
Summer (8 weeks): May 20 - Jul 12, 2013
Fall (15 weeks): Aug 22 - Dec 6, 2013
Internship Fair
Opportunity for approved Community Partners to speak face-to-face with many of our students.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 | 2:30-4:30pm
Tempe campus MU 221 | RSVP
Are you a Phoenix-area Title I school or does your organization engage in community outreach?
You may qualify as a University Service Learning Community Partner and have ASU student-interns placed in your organization at no cost to you!
ASU students enrolled in USL courses select from approved Community Partners to fulfill service hour requirements.
Criteria for Community Partners
- Must be a non-profit organization, Title I school, or project targeting under-served populations
- Must offer opportunities for USL students to engage in direct service to the community
- Must arrange a schedule with the USL student to complete a total of 45-100 service hours throughout the semester:
- about 3 to 7.5 hours per week in the 15-week fall and spring semesters
- about 6 to 15 hours per week in the 8-week summer semester
- Must provide designated supervisor(s) and contact(s) who will:
- Attend a mandatory one-time, 75-minute orientation session *Each person who may potentially supervise or place our students must attend this session.
- Promptly respond to student inquiries during the first 2 weeks of the fall/spring semester or the first week of the summer semester
- Assign and monitor appropriate service tasks
- Review, approve, and/or complete online forms
Additional Details
Become a Community Partner
Community Partner Handbook
QUESTIONS?
service.learning@asu.edu or 480-727-6382
Additional details on service activity requirements
- Work with classroom teacher to create and teach lessons directly to children
- Tutor academically at-risk children
- Provide in-class assistance for struggling children
- Mentor children to increase college-going aspirations
- Lead children in service projects
- Lead sports/fitness, art, or drama activities
- Tech coach for women in transition
- Provide therapeutic horseback riding lessons for special needs groups
- Conduct parenting and literacy classes for those without a high school diploma
- Address health and wellness disparities in minority communities
- Coordinate instrument drives for under-resourced schools
- Support and coach pregnant teens or abused women
- Organize activities addressing water sustainability
Examples of approved service tasks
- Conduct outreach at community events
- Teach ESL courses
- Teach civics and/or citizenship classes
- Solicit in-kind and monetary donations
- Call prospective donors
- Recruit and organize volunteers
- Serve food at a homeless shelter
- Advocate for environmental policy change
- Care for hospice patients and their families
- Interview small business owners
- Exercise with physically disabled children
- Bring theater arts to at-risk youth and senior citizens
- Educate the public about sex trafficking
- Facilitate financial education classes
- Prepare free tax returns for low-income residents
- Assist girls in juvenile justice system with online studies
- Serve as a peer leader for LBGTQA ASU students
Important Dates
Spring '13 Application Deadline
January 7, 2013. Applications accepted on an ongoing basis. For greatest exposure, apply as far ahead of the semester as possible.
Upcoming Semester Dates
Spring (15 weeks): Jan 7 - Apr 30, 2013
Summer (8 weeks): May 20 - Jul 12, 2013
Fall (15 weeks): Aug 22 - Dec 6, 2013
Internship Fair
Opportunity for approved Community Partners to speak face-to-face with many of our students.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 | 2:30-4:30pm
Tempe campus MU 221 | RSVP
Upon Approval of Your Application
STEP 2: Submit a signed
STUDENT PLACEMENT AGREEMENT
More Details: Community Partner Handbook
QUESTIONS?
service.learning@asu.edu or 480-727-6382
THREE EASY STEPS TO PARTNERSHIP:
- Submit an application
- Submit a signed Student Placement Agreement
(required by ASU for all partnerships) - Attend the required orientation session
University Service Learning does not charge a fee for inclusion in the list of approved internship opportunities from which students select a placement. We cannot guarantee a specific internship will be selected during any given semester. See additional details in the Community Partner Handbook.
STEP 1: How to Apply
- Before submitting a partner application, please review the Criteria for Community Partners.
- Please register for a user account on SLED and select "community partner" as the user type.
- Please check our approved internships to see if your organization already has a partnership with us.
- If your organization is listed, please continue to step 3 and select your organization from the drop-down list in the application form.
- If your organization is not listed, please complete the partner organization form (login to SLED required), which contains general information about your organization. Do this only once for your organization.
- Complete an internship opportunity application form (login to SLED required), which includes details about duties, required skills, location, etc.
- To maximize student interest, provide detailed, precise, and appealing descriptions of your organization and service activities.
- Submit multiple forms if you will offer more than one type of internship position or have positions at different locations.
- Once submitted, you will receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive this email within 15 minutes (and it is not in your junk/spam folder), please contact service.learning@asu.edu.
Application Review
Please allow one week for the review process. You will receive e-mail notification of the status of your application.
