HB 1131 -- Service Learning in Higher Education

Co-Sponsors:  Hosmer, Williams

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.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:00 am