How to Participate
Benefits of Service-Learning
Step 1: Select the program, such as Brookhaven
Counts or Brookhaven Reads, a special interest group or
campaign, such as Democracy in Action, or agency
where you would like to complete your service hours.
• Satisfaction of making a difference in a
child’s life
• Enhancing your people skills
• Credit in your course, as determined
by your instructor
• Your hours will be recorded on a
continuing education transcript
• Increase of your chances of
winning a scholarship or grant
Step 2: Contact the site and speak with the Site
Director or person in charge of volunteers to find out
what you need to do to begin your service hours, i.e.,
site application, background check, orientation, and
when you can begin.
Step 3: Log on to eCampus Service-Learning Page at
http://ecampus.dcccd.edu and fill out the servicelearning application and disclaimer form. NOTE:
Students who do not complete this step will not receive
service-learning credit. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Step 4: Download a timesheet on the eCampus site
and take it with you each time you perform service
hours. Only your Site Director or the person he/she
designates may sign your timesheet.
If an
unauthorized person signs your timesheet, you will not
receive any credit for that day(s). NO EXCEPTIONS.
NOTE: Timesheets for Brookhaven Counts and
Brookhaven Reads participants are kept at the tutoring
site, so this step does not apply to you. If you are
unable to download a timesheet, you may pick up one
in the SPAR Office, Room S201.
Step 5: Complete the service hours required by your
instructor.
Keep a log of your service-learning
experience to assist you in completing reflection
assignments given by your instructor and/or Reflection
Sessions conducted by the SPAR Office.
Step 6: If required by your instructor, participate in a
Reflection Session held by SPAR and complete the
student survey. For a list of Reflection Session dates,
please visit the eCampus Service-Learning Page or pick
up a list of dates from the SPAR Office. Students who
do not complete this step will not receive servicelearning credit. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Step 7: Return your completed timesheet to your
Service-Learning coordinator by the due date to receive
credit. Please check the online Service-Learning
calendar on eCampus for the official due date.
Join Alpha Phi Omega
You can help take service to the
next level by joining a national
coeducational service fraternity
at Brookhaven College. Alpha
Phi Omega has set the standard
for
college
campus-based
volunteerism since 1925.
Service-Learning at
Brookhaven College
Student Programs And Resources
We want your pledge!
Pledges are the people who represent our hope for
the future. Learn the principles of leadership,
friendship and service to help acquire a strong base
on which to build a successful standard of conduct.
Vision
To be recognized as the premier service-based leadership
development organization.
Mission
To prepare college and community
leaders through service.
Values
To develop leadership, promote friendship
and provide service.
Cornelius Caldwell
$1,000 Scholarship
2007 Coca-Cola
Foundation Two-Year
College Award
Roslynn Almas
Winner
$10,000 Scholarship
2007 Frank K.
Newman Leadership
Award Winner
Young Hoon Lim
$3,200 Scholarship
2007 DCCCD LeCroy
Foundation Award
Winner & Brookhaven
College 2006-07
Service-Learning
“Super Star”
Embark on a lifetime of service in Alpha Phi Omega.
Ask about our upcoming pledge class today!
CONTACT INFORMATION
Student Programs And Resources Office
Student Services Center
Building S, Room S201
e-mail: bhcAPO@dcccd.edu | t: 972-860-4703
Brookhaven College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4007: Telephone
number 404-679-4501), Web site: www.SACSCOC.org, to award the associate
degree. Educational and employment opportunities are offered by Brookhaven
College without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, sex,
disability or sexual orientation. M&PI Office, July, 2007, #703014.
IT ALL BEGINS HERE.
3939 Valley View Lane
Farmers Branch, TX 75244-4997
www.BrookhavenCollege.edu
Main Number: 972-860-4700 | bhcInfo@dcccd.edu
What is Service-Learning?
As a member of Campus
Compact,
a
national
coalition of nearly 1,100
college and university
presidents — representing
approximately 6 million students — Brookhaven
College is dedicated to promoting community
service, civic engagement, and service-learning
in higher education.
The Brookhaven College’s Office of Student
Programs And Resources, SPAR, is dedicated to
student success and community service through
its Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
Program. Through the national office and
network of 31 state offices, Brookhaven College
receives the training, resources, and advocacy
needed to help build strong surrounding
communities and teach students the skills and
values of democracy.
Campus Compact's membership includes public,
private, two- and four-year institutions across the
spectrum of higher education. Brookhaven
College puts into practice the ideal of civic
engagement by sharing knowledge and resources
with its communities, creating economic development initiatives, and supporting service and
service-learning efforts in key areas such as
literacy, health care, hunger, homelessness, the
environment, and senior services.
Brookhaven College works to
• provide learning opportunities to
bring the community into the
classroom and to take the classroom
to the community,
• develop student citizenship skills,
• encourage partnerships between the
campus and community, and
• assist faculty members who seek to
integrate community involvement
into their teaching.
Improve community life and learn civic and social responsibility!
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Brookhaven Counts
Democracy in Action
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
Brookhaven Counts is a math tutoring program for
students enrolled in college-level mathematics courses,
MATH 1414 or higher, that targets children in grades 3-9
in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Dallas, and Richardson
independent school districts. Can we count you in?
“I had a blast! I love working with kids and being
able to help them out is a great feeling.”
Megan Golas
Brookhaven Counts participant
BHC
A BC
GO!
BHC
Brookhaven, Go!
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
A civic engagement project, Democracy in Action is for
students enrolled in government and related courses.
Activities include voter registration drives and political
campaign work, such as door-to-door canvassing, phone
bank, circulating political information, distributing yard
signs and designing marketing materials.
“Service Learning has given me a better understanding of the
political system, and how important it is to be involved.”
The Go! Centers represent a school-tocollege transition program that seeks to
enroll 630,000 students in Texas colleges and universities
by 2015. Brookhaven College has GO! Centers where you
can help local high school students learn about college.
Volunteer today!
“Going to college can be so complicated. It’s great to be able
to help students understand the process better.”
Michael Aviles
Time Democracy in Action participant
Teresa D. Love
DCCCD Special College
Program Initiative Coordinator
Brookhaven Reads
Fit Body Boyz
Service Matters
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
A Brookhaven College Service -Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
A reading/literacy tutoring program, Brookhaven Counts
is for students enrolled in college-level English courses,
ENGL 1301 or higher, targeting children in grades K-8 in
the Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Dallas, and Richardson
independent school districts. Help a child learn to read!
“Teachers are glad you are there and
students appreciate the help!”
Karla Hanson
Brookhaven Reads participant
A mentoring project for boys in fourth- and fifth grades
Fit Body Boyz, is designed to improve self-esteem,
embrace a healthy attitude and teach proper exercise and
good nutrition. In response to obesity and diabetes
affecting more children every day, the goal of Fit Body
Boyz is to focus on early education, mentoring, and
fitness.
“I was able to feel the joy of teaching
young children the sport I love.”
Service Matters is a Dallas County Community College
District service-learning program that provides volunteer
opportunities in a variety of service areas that include
children and youth, family support, health care, oncampus opportunities, senior adult services, disability
services, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and environmental
services.
“The experience I had at the Salvation Army was good for
adapting reality to the theory I learned in class.”
Marcus Owens
Fall 2006 participant
Young Hoon Lim
Salvation Army and
2006-07 Brookhaven College Service-Learning Super-Star
Earth Challenge
A Brookhaven College Service-Learning Program,
Student Programs And Resources Office
Earth Challenge is an environmental service learning
program where you can engage in research, service, and
peer-based experiential activities that have to do with air
quality, water pollution, alternative energy, noise
pollution, xeriscaping, global warming and recycling.
“We were able to restore the beauty of the landscape
and habitat that had been destroyed by recreational
vehicles. I was very proud of our work.”
Megan
Karla
Michael
Lisa
Marcus
Young
Teresa
CONTACT INFORMATION
Lisa Spencer
2006 AlternativeSpring Break participant
Service-Learning & Civic Engagement
3939 Valley View Lane | Farmers Branch, TX 75244-4997
t: 972-860-4115 | e-mail: bhcServiceLearning@dcccd.edu
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