The Faculty Fellows In Service Program, sponsored by the Cornell Public Service Center and Cornell Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy, has awarded financial support to five faculty and community teams to write papers on new initiatives in service learning.

The papers will describe new service-learning curricula and models and new ways of linking the community, students and faculty in service-learning opportunities. Papers will be presented at the Second Annual Faculty Service-Learning Symposium, Nov. 21, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., in lecture hall III of the Veterinary Research Tower on campus. They will be published in the Working Paper Series on Service-Learning, Volume 2, Service-Learning Partnerships: Developing and Defining the Roles of University and Community.

Service learning is an educational strategy which enhances and reinforces the academic learning experience with practical experience for students while responding to community needs. It reinforces the value of the university's outreach mission and strengthens undergraduate education.

Cornell and Ithaca College faculty were invited to submit abstracts and paper proposals. Five faculty paper proposals were selected. Faculty will receive $1,000 for papers authored alone, and $1,500 for those authored with a member of the off-campus community (with awards divided equally among authors). The following proposals were selected:

• "Service Learning for Social Schange: The Importance of Community Collaboration and a Critically Reflective Framework." Faculty: Jeff Claus and Terese Michel, Center for Teacher Education, Ithaca College.
• "Practical training in Routine Pet Care in an Underprivileged Community." Faculty: Dwight Bowman, microbiology and immunology, and William Hornbuckle, clinical sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell. Community: Debra Dover, director of Southside Community Center.
• "Re-Defining 'Service' is the Learning: Critical Community Service through the CLASP Program." Faculty: Nancy Grudens-Schuck, education department, and Martha Hodges, coordinator of the Community Learning and Service Partnership, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell.
• "Design for Caregiving: A Collaborative Approach in Service-Learning." Faculty: Paul Eshelman, design and environmental analysis, and Gary Evans, design and environmental analysis, College of Human Ecology, Cornell.
• "Thinking About New Partnerships in the Service Learning Realm: Not-For-Profit, For-Profit Connections." Faculty: Therese O'Connor, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell. Community: Marge Dill, executive director, and Nancy Burston, assistant director, Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County. Students: Stephanie Rainsford and Heather Kubach.

Co-sponsors of the Second Annual Faculty Service-Learning Symposium are Cornell's colleges of Human Ecology, Hotel Administration, Architecture, Art and Planning, and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

For more information about the Faculty Fellows in Service Program or the faculty symposium, contact Therese O'Connor, FFIS chair, at (607) 255-8388 or tao3@cornell.edu.