ABSTRACT
Service-learning, more than political science, has been central to the author's professional career as a political scientist. The Jepson School of Leadership Studies seemed a place where the integration of community service and the curriculum could happen. Specifically, the Learning in Community Settings program at the University of Richmond offers faculty and students several models for course-related or credit-bearing service-learning: community service, school-based instruction, action research, and a community problem solving seminar. Civic leadership surely begins with the insight that social problems involve both the haves and the have-nots and that members of both groups are human, with their foibles and their strengths. The difficulty of finding an adequate site for service-learning, one hospitable to a structured opportunity to meet the needs of different constituencies, provides an incentive for school-based service-learning. Some instructors offer their students the chance to organize modules of instruction, tutoring, and other forms of teaching.
