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• Assumption College Minor on Service-Learning
  http://www.assumption.edu/programs/cslm/
  The college offers a minor in Community Service Learning, jointly offered by the Sociology/Anthropology and English Departments.
• Bryant University
  http://web.bryant.edu/~hss/sociology/
  Bryant University offers a major and a minor in service-learning and sociology.
• California State University Monterey Bay Service Learning Leadership Minor
  http://service.csumb.edu/programs/sl_minor.html
  The Service Learning Leadership minor at CSU Monterey Bay is one of the few academic programs in the country to focus on the theory and practice of service-learning, preparing students to work in the service-learning field. Courses in service-learning pedagogy, course design, social justice, social change, and the application of service-learning knowledge comprise the heart of this minor.
• College of St. Catherine
  http://minerva.stkate.edu/justicepolicy.nsf/pages/ongoingprojects/
  The College of St. Catherine offers a minor in Civic Engagement.
• Colorado School of Mines
  http://humanitarian.mines.edu/
  The Colorado School of Mines offers two undergraduate minors and an area of special
  interest in humanitarian engineering.
• DePaul University Community Service Studies
  http://cbsl.depaul.edu/css.asp
  The minor in Community Service Studies is available to all undergraduate students at DePaul University. The minor focuses on providing students a “framework for viewing community service from the perspectives of theory, ethics, and group dynamics” as well as opportunities for engagement in community-based service-learning courses.
• Emory and Henry College Public Policy and Community Service Major and Minor
  http://www.ehcweb.ehc.edu/catalog/courses/ppcs.html
  Emory and Henry College 's Appalachian Center for Community Service (http://www.ehc.edu/special/service/commservice.html) coordinates both the major and the minor in Public Policy and Community Service. The major focuses on providing students with a background in community-centered action research and models of social change. Students emerge from the major with skills in “community building, participatory research, and leadership development.” The minor helps students apply these skills to their major areas of study.
• Humboldt State University Leadership Studies Minor
  http://www.humboldt.edu/~cops/programs/minors.html
  The Leadership Studies Minor is an effort to blend the learning that occurs through "doing" with essential classroom instruction.
  See also this listing of Service-Learning Courses offered:
  http://www.humboldt.edu/~cops/programs/service.html
• Kansas City Art Institute
  http://www.kcai.edu/careers/StudentlifeARCCASLKansasCityArtInstitute.php
  The Community Arts and Service-Learning program encompasses a 15-hour academic curriculum notable for its three-hour service learning internship. Students who complete the program will be eligible for a certificate in community arts.
• Murray State University Service Learning Scholars
  http://www.murraystate.edu/chfa/servicelearning/SLscholars.htm
  Students at Murray University in Kentucky can become a Service Learning Scholar by completing 12 credits in service-learning designated courses and earning a minimum GPA of 3.0 in these courses. Students who are Service Learning Scholars are recognized at graduation, at the institutional “Honors” day, and receive a special designation on their transcripts.
• Northwestern University Certificate in Service Learning
  http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/ugrad/academics/service//
  The Northwester University Certificate program in Service Learning is offered by the School of Education and Social Policy and is available to all undergraduates. The mission of the certificate program is to “educate students about civic involvement and democratic participation.” The two year certificate program involves completion of three service-learning courses, involvement in volunteer community service, facilitated reflection, and a second year capstone experience.
• Portland State University Minor in Civic Leadership
  http://www.hatfieldschool.pdx.edu/courses/Civic.php
  The Minor in Civic Leadership, developed through a partnership with the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and the Center for Academic Excellence, consists of 27 required credit hours of coursework drawn from more than 20 courses throughout the campus. The minor is intended to create a curricular focus for students who have a broad general interest in civic leadership and community service.
• Providence College Public and Community Service Studies
  http://www.providence.edu/Academics/Undergraduate+Studies/
  Areas+of+Study/Public+Service.htm
  Administered by the Feinstein Institute for Public Service (http://www.providence.edu/feinstein), the major in public and community service studies involves a study of the themes of community, service, compassion, public ethics, social justice, social change, and leadership within the context of a liberal arts curriculum. The minor in Public and Community Service Studies is designed for students wishing to supplement their major with both the study and practice of public and community service.
• Saint Louis University Service Leadership Certificate Program
  http://www.slu.edu/cook_service_leadership.xml
  Offered through the John Cook School of Business, the Service Leadership certificate is focused on undergraduate business students who seek to serve the community and develop leadership skills. Students complete a program that includes service-learning courses, community service, and leadership seminars.
• San Jose State University
  http://www.sjsu.edu/csl/students/
  The San Jose State University service-learning minor requires three core courses: Social Problems, Community Involvement and Personal Growth, and Community Action and Service, plus three elective service-learning courses.
• Salt Lake Community College Service Learning Scholars Program
  http://www.slcc.edu/thaynecenter/
  The Service-Learning Scholars program gives students an opportunity to complement their academic work with service with guidance from the Thayne Center . Service learning scholars complete 100 hours of service, ten credits of service-learning classes, and an independent project in their area of study. Students who complete these requirements receive recognition from the college in the form of a service-learning cord at commencement, notations in the commencement program, and designation on their official transcript as Service Learning Scholars.
• Slippery Rock University
  http://www.sru.edu/pages/10655.asp
  SRU offers an academic minor in Community Service and Service-Learning in collaboration with the Institute for Community Service-Learning and Nonprofit Leadership.
• State University of New York Stony Brook Living/Learning Center Interdisciplinary Minor in Community Service Learning
  http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/ubdepts0305.nsf/pages/lcr
  The minor in Community Service Learning is offered to all undergraduates who seek to integrate service-learning into their academic experience at SUNY Stony Brook. Students take courses focused on working with communities, social action research, and student selected courses chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor. In addition, students complete a Community Service Learning internship and a senior seminar focused on Community Service Learning.
• University of California, Los Angeles
  http://cis.ucla.edu/studyArea/course.asp?id=306
  Open to all UCLA undergraduates, the Civic Engagement Minor provides students with opportunities to gain civic skills and knowledge, a service ethic, and an informed perspective on issues of diversity and democracy. The curriculum includes a lower-division course, an upper-division core course in Political Science, an upper-division elective course, an intensive internship, and research on a policy issue. Students can choose to be civically engaged at the local, state or national level.
• University of Kansas
  http://www.servicelearning.ku.edu/certification.shtml
  The University of Kansas offers a Certification in Service Learning, which includes four components designed to demonstrate that students have met the service-learning critear specified by the Working Group. These include: classroom experience, directed readings, and independant project, and reflection.
• University of Massachusetts Boston College of Public and Community Service
  http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/main-nonflash.html
  The College of Public and Community Service offers a variety of undergraduate majors and concentrations—leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, and graduate degrees in Dispute Resolution and Human Services. The focus of the College of Public and Community Service is education for students who are interested in working towards social change.
• University of Missouri Minor in Leadership and Public Service
  http://servicelearning.missouri.edu/minor.htm
  The minor in leadership and public service is offered through the University of Missouri Office of Service-Learning. The minor focuses on leadership in the context of public and community service. Minor requirements include opportunities for service-learning and public service experiences that are integrally tied to academic coursework.
• University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
  http://www.unc.edu/cps/
  Program requirements for UNC Chapel Hills's Public Service Scholars Program include 300 hours of service, two service-learning class, four skills trainings, completion of a service portfolio, and a minimum GPA of 2.5.
• University of San Francisco
  http://mccarthycenter.usfca.edu/programs/overview.html
  The University of San Francisco offers an honors minor in public service, a public service minor, and public service certificate program.
• University of Wisconsin-River Falls
  http://www.uwrf.edu/ogs/programs/programs-index.php/service-learning/9/ce/
  The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, working in partnership with the National Youth Leadership Council has developed a graduate-level certificate in service-learning. The program assists educators to understand, plan and apply service-learning methods in their classrooms and their communities. Courses are entirely online and can be completed within one year.

• Bardsley, A. University of Utah Service-Learning Scholars Give 4,800 Hours of Community Service. (May 8, 2003). University of Utah News and Public Relations. http://www.utah.edu/unews/releases/03/may/service.html
  Article details the recognition of 12 Service-Learning Scholars during commencement ceremonies at the University of Utah . Service-Learning Scholars complete 400 hours of community service and a minimum of 10 credit hours in service-learning courses. Scholars also complete an Integrative Service Project.
• Hudson , W.E., Trudeau, R.H. An Essay on the Institutionalization of Service-Learning: The Genesis of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (1995) v.2, p. 150-158.
  Discussion about the development and implementation of an academic degree program in Public and Community Service Studies, and the integration of service-learning into the Providence College curriculum.
• Herget, A. Conference examines service learning projects. The Digital Collegian (Penn State), (March 31 st , 2003). http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/03/03-31-03tdc/03-31-03dnews-04.asp
  Student article detailing a conference focused on the public scholarship of service-learning and the development of a service-learning minor at Penn State.
• Holmes, J. Service Learning Certificate Program, residential learning community among endeavors SU's Center for Public and Community Service plans to undertake. Syracuse University News, January 20, 2001.