Eight “seasoned” service-learning faculty per year will be to work together as a group of fellows to produce a creative project or scholarly white paper on service-engagement for national publication toward promotion and tenure.  Each fellow will develop new service-learning courses to be taught on their individual campuses and provide a professional service to a not-for profit agency. 

Eighteen faculty per year will be selected to choose one of three options related to the Scholarship of Engagement: develop or revise a service-learning course to be taught by the recipient, provide scholarly research on service-engagement, or provide a professional service to a local community agency.  The selected faculty members will also encourage the development of service-engagement infrastructure on their respective campuses through trainings and workshops of other faculty. 

Four campuses will be selected to hold a campus and community dialogue to develop implementation strategies for an engaged campus and community.  Recipients will be encouraged to form a post-meeting Advisory Board consisting of campus representatives and community representatives to address the follow-up needed from the findings. 

The M3C Fellows Program is committed to integrating education with civic engagement among campuses across the Midwest.

AACC is also conducting a search for four experienced community college service learning practitioners to serve as mentors in the Horizons project.  Mentee colleges will receive $12,000 in the first year of the grant, and mentor colleges will receive $5,000.  In addition, Horizons mentee colleges will receive extensive training and technical assistance through the mentor team, project conferences, site visits, listservs, conference calls, and project publications.  The funding period is December 1, 2006, through June 30, 2009.