Box 9, Folder 1, Document 22

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The Atlanta Service-Learning Conference
invites you
to its inaugural meeting
Urban Needs = Educational Opportunities
at the
White House Motor Inn, Atlanta

June 30 -- July 1, 1969

The first in a series of meetings
planned for 1969 by sponsors of the
Atlanta Service-Learning Conference,
including:

The City of Atlanta
The Atlanta Urban Corps
Economic Opportunity Atlanta
The Colleges and Universities of Atlanta
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
The Southern Regional Education Board
Volunteers in Service to America

The Peace Corps
THE ATLANTA SERVICE-LEARNING CONFERENCE

Atlanta shares with other major American
cities its needs for increased services and its
large population of college students -- some
40,000 in the metropolitan area. In an attempt
to explore ways to meet urban needs, to offer
students a more relevant education, and to
bring campus and community closer together,
Atlanta students, city officials, higher educa-
tion faculty and staff, regional and federal
agency officials are jointly launching the
Atlanta Service-Learning Conference.

Meeting Series

The meeting on June 30 and July | marks
the opening event of the Conference. The
Conference will continue for six months and
will sponsor periodic meetings to consider ma-
jor dimensions of the service-learning concept.

Work Groups

In exploring the service-learning concept,
work groups will be formed to concentrate on
particular aspects of the idea. These work
groups, and a typical question to be posed to
each of them, are listed below:

Service: How can the student make a
maximum contribution in his short term
assignment?

Learning: What learning can take place
during the assignment?

Curriculum: What are the implications of
the service-learning idea for curricular deve-
lopment?

Financing: What is an equitable distribu-
tion of cost among the host agency? the
college? the government?

Research: How are students’ educational
and career choices affected through partici-
pation in service-learning programs?

Methods and Programs: How should a
service-learning program be designed for
implementation on a large scale?

Laboratory

Among the work group participants will be
members of the Atlanta Urban Corps and
other service-learning programs which will
forma practical laboratory for the Conference.

Information Exchange and Results

The Conference will foster the exchange of
information among participants and with in-
terested persons in other metropolitan areas.
It is already sponsoring surveys of student
manpower resources in the urban area, of the
needs of the public and voluntary agency
sectors for student manpower, and of present
college and university programs helping to fill
these needs. A wrap-up meeting and publica-
tion is planned for the coming winter, when
plans for continuing the examination of service-
learning and extending service-learning pro-
grams will be considered,

Participation
Participation in the Conference is open to
all persons and groups interested in sharing
information on service-learning programs.

Inquiries may be addressed to:
Atlanta Service-Learning Conference
Peace Corps, Southern Region

Suite B-70

275 Peachtree Street, N.E.

Atlanta, Georgia 30303
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12:15

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12:15

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5:30

Monday, June 30

Welcome by Mayor Ivan Allen

A Case Study presented by the
service-learning players

Service-Learning in Action in
Atlanta -- up-to-the-minute report

Needs of Urban America
luncheon address

Seminars on service-learning
concept and programs

Social hour

Educational Needs of Young
People -- dinner address

Tuesday, July 1

Service-Learning and National
Programs, an exchange with
national officials of the Teacher
Corps, VISTA and the Peace Corps

Workshops

Service

Learning

Curriculum

Finance

Research

Methods and Programs

Pa EO

Service by Youth
luncheon address

Workshops resume
Workshop reports and discussion
What Next?

Conclusion

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