The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Academic Community Service Learning Program (ACSLP) was designed to enhance the institution's commitment to civic resonsibility among students, faculty and staff. The Program guides students in two directions to comply with the requirement - community service and academic service learning. Students perform community service when they participate with an approved service agency in an activity designed to enhance the quality of the life for the community. The ACSLP's overall goal is to bring people and programs together to raise the quality of life in our community.

The program enables the NCCU family to remember its past, by working today to prepare for tomorrow. Some NCCU students tutor neighborhood children, instilling in them the confidence they need to succeed in school. Others awaken early in the morning or on a weekend to help clean a neighborhood of litter and other debris, fostering a sense of self-worth and pride among residents. Still others lead a community dialogue at a Boys & Girls Club, promoting a future of greater racial understanding, harmony and brotherhood. These things and more make the NCCU ACSLP exemplary in its pursuit of a more civil society.

Placement
1. maintain a student-centered program
2. maintain a comprehensive process for placing students.

Partnership
1. to strengthen funded and non-funded partnerships with community agencies
2. to leverage university resource training for community partners
3. to explore new partnerships to strengthen university and community ties.

Service Learning
1. to work collectively broadening appropriate collaborative activities among undergraduate, and graduate students, faculty and staff consistent with the policy.
2. promote civic engagement efforts that celebrate, highlight and deepen the public mission of the university, and to enlarge ways in which higher education contributes to strengthening American democracy.
3. to provide training for students focusing on career development through service leawrning opportunities
4. to increase the number of courses with service learning components.

Research
1. to serve as a resource for assessing the impact of community service learning
2. develop the reserach plan that reflects historical trends and comparisons
3. assess the University's population knowledge and use of the service learning pedagogies.

Public Relations
1. develop a marketing plan to tell success stories of engaging in the community
2. increase knowledge and understanding of community service.

Technology
1. to foster effective use of technology in the ACSLP and partnering agencies
2. gain an understanding of community based organizations technological deficiencies and address them.