The Graduate Student Network (GSN) is a community of graduate students from all over the world who are interested in advancing research on service-learning and community engagement from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are an active, evolving, member driven network with new ideas and an environment that values and appreciates your ideas. As an affiliate community of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) we provides access to the following:

• Research advancement opportunities
• Professional development workshops at the annual IARSLCE conference
• A graduate-student only listserv
• Mentoring opportunities with established scholars
• Professional development workshops throughout the year

Examples of opportunities that have been offered in the past year are webinars with leading scholars from the field of service-learning and community engagement, a mentor-mentee program for emerging and established scholars, editing and development opportunities with the Editorial Fellows initiative, and many other options for involvement with the GSN.

With specific questions or to join, please e-mail Lina Dostilio (dostilioL@duq.edu) and include your graduate program and institution. See GSN’s website for more information: http://www.researchslce.org/get-involved/graduate-student-network/

View the 2010-2011 GSN Steering Committee

GSN Listserv

The GSN listserv provides a forum for the discussion of issues concerning graduate students of the service-learning and community engagement community. We encourage you to use it to communicate and share resources with other graduate students interested in research on community engagement, service-learning, and related topics. GSN discussions can evolve around methodological approaches, best practices, dissertation and thesis writing, announcing fellowships, graduate assistantships, and professional positions, grants supporting graduate student research and professional development, publishing inquiries, curriculum requests, class assignments, the institutionalization of service-learning, and general advice and guidance for the field.

The GSN listserv of IARSLCE is open to any graduate student who expresses interest in the field. Membership of the GSN listserv is open to both members and non-members of IARSLCE in order to expand the network and increase access to resources, input, and feedback among graduate students in the field.

Please e-mail Emily Bowling (Emily.Bowling@oregonstate.edu) if you would like to be added to the listserv. Please include your name, e-mail, graduate program, and institution. If you would like to read the policies regarding the listerv, please click here.

Resources

• Disseminating research on service-learning and community engagement is very important to all of us.  CampusCompact has listed these publishing outlets that are suitable for reference and dissemination of research.  Click here for more information.

• National Clearinghouse for Service-Learning:  Click here for more information.

• NCSL-sponsored compilation and review of 2004-2006 Service-Learning related dissertations: Click here to download.

GSN on Facebook

Hang out with peers and other researchers at GSN on Facebook – just search for IARSLCE Graduate Student Network. To join, create your Facebook profile, search for and add “IARSLCE Graduate Student Network”.  Join Us!

GSN on Twitter

Follow GSN on Twitter – @GSN_IARSLCE.  Twitter is a micro-blogging service which allows groups and individuals to share information and communicate in various ways through “tweets” of 140 or fewer characters.  Check out our Twitter page by clicking here, and follow us today to find out the latest happenings in the GSN and connect with fellow graduate students interested in service-learning and community engagement.