Karen Trible is an assistant professor in the Nursing Department at FHSU. In her Child/Adolescent and the Parenting Family course each admitted student is required to do a four hour service-learning project. The basis for this project rests with the concept of servant leadership (Greenleaf, 2003), implying a commitment to help humanity over and beyond one's usual student learning experience; to give of oneself without the expectation of receiving a reward or gift; or altruistic giving of oneself. Even in nursing, which is service oriented by the nature of the profession, nurses are continually asked to become involved in extra civic service encounters throughout their nursing careers, over and beyond the normal nursing experience. In this course, after engaging in this service-learning project, the student reflects on his/her experience.

Also, each student posts his/her reflections in a service-learning discussion board forum in the N422 blackboard course. Students are required to reply to at least three of their peers, regarding peer postings. Validation of completion of this service-learning project weighs into the student's total grade percentage for the N422 course.

Greenleaf, R. K. (2003). The servant leader within. A transformative path. Mahwah: NJ: Paulist Press.

In the fall 2005 semester, one of Dr. Campbell’s Principles of Culture courses at SIAS University in Xinzheng, China participated in an applied learning activity that involved eight-person teams. What these teams were organized to do was go into small rural villages around SIAS to attempt to encourage young people in the villages to study hard, do well in school, and maybe later go to a university. As a result, some tutoring occurred with young village people. The significance of this work is that 1) it allowed Chinese students (most of whom were raised in cities) to observe and analyze some important aspects of this rural lifestyle and 2) provide motivation for some of the young, poor, rural Chinese people to go further in school than they would have without this contact from this group of students.

The Health and Human Performance students of Lynn Maska's Leisure Programming for the Elderly class have recently collaborated with the Hays Recreation Commission on a Senior Wellness Fair. The fair, a service-learning project in her course, was held on November 10th at the Hays Recreation Center. Twenty three students designed, developed, and worked the Fair. The booths there included body composition, flexibility, muscular strength, blood pressure, aerobic exercise, as well as recreation and activities for the seniors. Ellis County Extension Office also had a booth on nutrition for seniors.