Summary of the Introduced Bill

HB 351 -- Service Learning in Higher Education

Sponsor:  Hosmer

This bill requires the Coordinating Board for Higher Education
to promote and catalogue service learning opportunities
available in state institutions of higher education.  Service
learning is defined in the bill and includes tutoring, literacy
training, neighborhood or environmental improvements, and
assisting the elderly or disabled.

To promote service learning, the Coordinating Board is required
to (1) include information about service learning in training
attended by faculty, administrators, and staff; (2) share
information about active programs with state institutions of
higher education; (3) develop written information about the
options in implementing programs; and (4) encourage state
institutions to establish, continue, or expand programs.

The bill requires the Coordinating Board to catalogue service
learning by (1) including information in the institutional
information collected by the board; (2) providing summary
information to community and nonprofit agencies and schools,
upon request; and (3) providing an annual report to the Governor
and the General Assembly by September 30 of each year, beginning
in 2002, about service learning programs at state institutions
of higher education.


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