Membership

IPSL is pleased to announce the launch of a Membership Program to help advance the cause of international service-learning.

For 25 years, IPSL has worked to promote intercultural understanding, deepen student learning, and provide help to those in need through service-learning. Our mission is twofold: to develop and promote the pedagogy of service-learning through advocacy, publications, and training, and to offer international service-learning programs for college and university students which uphold our high standards. Learn more about IPSL.>>

As IPSL has implemented our student programs and our various advocacy efforts, we have met more and more higher education institutions and leaders who have expressed a desire to join a network of institutions interested in the international and intercultural dimensions of service-learning—a network that would bring together those who have been active in the field for many years with those just getting started, and a network that would support and reflect principles of academic quality and reciprocity in service and learning.

We invite your institution to join such a network by becoming a member of IPSL.

As a member, you will join like-minded institutions in broadening the dialogue on international service-learning, engage in contact and collaboration with your peers around the world, receive information, ideas and assistance from IPSL, and have opportunities to provide your knowledge, experience, reflections and questions as peers to your fellow members as well as to IPSL as it fulfills its dual mission of advocacy and program development in the field.

In addition, by becoming a member, you will receive several other benefits:

On first joining IPSL, you may receive three IPSL publications without charge, and a 20% discount on publications thereafter.

Each year, IPSL will organize a one-day Members' Meeting when representatives of member institutions can receive advice and training on international service-learning, share information about their work, and network with other members. Each institutional member may nominate up to three persons to attend without a registration fee. (Travel expenses are not included.) The tentative date for the 2008 Members' Meeting is November 13, in the vicinity of New York City.

You will be eligible to use IPSL's AISLE consulting services at a reduced rate.

As a member, you will be able to recognize exceptional intercultural service and learning by your faculty and students, as well as exceptional contributions by partner agencies in your community, by awarding them the IPSL International Certificate for Distinguished Service and Learning. Names of awardees are submitted to the IPSL headquarters, which prepares the certificates and publishes annually the names of recipients and their institutions.

You will receive a Members' E-Newsletter on the work of IPSL and news of activities by other members four times a year.

This is the inaugural year for IPSL's Membership Program, which builds in part on our earlier Distinguished Partner effort. During this initial year, we welcome your input and suggestions on ways to develop further the international network of institutions and individuals.

The annual fee for institutional membership is US$500 for institutions in the U.S. and other OECD nations; US$250 for institutions elsewhere. Although membership does not confer any formal governance privileges or obligations, it will be an important way of strengthening your links with others in international service-learning so that everyone can work more effectively as organizers and advocates.

We look forward to welcoming you as part of the IPSL network. If have any questions, please contact President Nevin Brown by phone (212-986-0989) or email.

Download a membership application. (Institutions in the U.S. and other OECD nations)

Download a membership application. (For institutions not in OECD nations)