We've adopted the Serve 2.0 to echo the Web 2.0 label to reflect how the next stage aspirations for our service work. Below we try describe the old vs new or basic vs advanced or current vs future practices or goals in community-campus partnerships, community service, service-learning, civic engagement, social change, and all the other labels we put on our work.

The Serve 2.0 practices or goals build on what has been built and practiced in the Serve 1.0 era.  And, grouping practices or goals this way is not to suggest that many people, programs, campuses have not already been implementing the Serve 2.0 ideals.  Rather, the goal here is to develop some distinctions that we can use in the big picture goal statements in the proposal, and long-term, as goals for the Serve 2.0 Working Group.  

 Intro to Serve.pp       Intro to Serve.pdf

 NDM2008-Serve2.ppt

Please add your ideas to these two lists.  Use the comments box at the bottom of the page to push the dialogue a little, too.

Serve 1.0

• One-time or short-term placements
• Counting hours served
• Service-learning courses that emphasize experiential learning pedagogy and student learning more than community partnership and impact
• Research on or about communities
• Community outreach activities housed on the student affairs
• Ad hoc student service leadership development 
• Static web pages for community service centers and programs (rarely updated, not useful for managing or communicating)

Serve 2.0

• Sustained, collaborative community problem-solving partnerships
• Counting community impact
• Collaborative, community-driven, research focused service-learning courses
• Research with and for community partners
• Community service centers/offices that integrate or coordinate student affairs and academic affairs (curricular and co-curricular)
• Intentional, four-year student development framework that integrates curricular and co-curricular opportunities
• Dynamic, collaborative web presence using a wide variety of social media tools to communicate, network, educate, promote, and manage service programs

Examples descriptions on social media & civic engagement

• Video: Introducing Civic Learning Research, Media Skills and Advocacy projects