The IARSLCE grew out of the Annual International K-H Service-Learning Research Conference, which began as an idea championed by Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D. of RMC Research Corporation and Andrew Furco, Ph.D. of the University of California Berkeley. They obtained seed funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which was managed by Dr. Billig at RMC Research Corporation, and helped to support the first five years of the annual research conference. At the time of the first conference in Berkeley, CA in 2001, there were no other comparable meetings that highlighted research on service-learning and facilitated information exchange and dialogue among scholars, practitioners, funders, and students interested in research on service-learning.

Past Conference Hosts

2011: Illinois Campus Compact, DePaul University, National-Louis University, Loyola University Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Northern Illinois University Conference Chairs: Kathy Engelken and Howard Rosing; Program Chair: Patrick Green

2010:  Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana Campus Compact Conference Chairs:  Robert Bringle and Julie Hatcher

2009:  University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada
Conference Chair:  Jeffrey Keshen

2008: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Conference Planning Committee: Barbara Moely, Vincent Ilustre, and Katie Houck

2007:  Florida Campus Compact and the University of South Florida, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, Miami Dade College, and the University of Miami, Tampa, FL
Conference Co-Chairs: Melody Bowdon and Harold Keller

2006: Portland State University, Portland, OR
Conference Chair: Sherril B. Gelmon

2005: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Conference Chair: Karen McKnight Casey

2004: RMC Research Corporation and Clemson University, Greenville, SC
Conference Co-Chairs: Shelley Billig and Nancy Dunlap

2003: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Conference Chair: Marshall Welch

2002: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Conference Chair: Janet Eyler

2001: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Conference Chair: Andrew Furco

Former Board Members:

Jeffrey Anderson, Seattle University

Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation

Min S. Cho, Virginia Commonwealth University

Nick Cutforth, University of Denver

Jennifer Dorr, Washington Campus Compact

Janet Eyler, Vanderbilt University

Andrew Furco, University of Minnesota

Sherril B. Gelmon, Portland State University

Emily Janke, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Gail Robinson, American Association of Community Colleges

John Saltmarsh, New England Resource Center for Higher Education

Trae Stewart, Texas State University San Marcos

Maria Nieves Tapia, Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario/Latin American Center for Service-learning

Nicole Webster, Pennsylvania State University

Marshall Welch, St. Mary’s College of California