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42 U.S. Code § 12561. Higher education innovative programs for community service
(a) Purpose
It is the purpose of this part to expand participation in community service by supporting innovative community service programs through service-learning carried out through institutions of higher education, acting as civic institutions to meet the human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs of neighboring communities.
(b) General authorityThe Corporation, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, is authorized to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, institutions of higher education (including a consortium of such institutions), and partnerships comprised of such institutions and of other public or private nonprofit organizations, to pay for the Federal share of the cost of—
(1) enabling such an institution or partnership to create or expand an organized community service program that—
(A)
engenders a sense of social responsibility and commitment to the community in which the institution is located;
(B)
provides projects for participants, who shall be students, faculty, administration, or staff of the institution, or residents of the community; and
(C)
the institution or partnership may coordinate with service-learning curricula being offered in the academic curricula at the institution of higher education or at 1 or more members of the partnership;
(2)
supporting student-initiated and student-designed community service projects through the program;
(3) strengthening the leadership and instructional capacity of institutions of higher education and their faculty, with respect to service-learning, by—
(A)
including service-learning as a key component of the preservice teacher curricula of the institution to strengthen the instructional capacity of teachers to provide service-learning at the elementary and secondary levels;
(B)
including service-learning as a component of other curricula or academic programs (other than education curricula or programs), such as curricula or programs relating to nursing, medicine, criminal justice, or public policy; and
(C)
encouraging the faculty of the institution to use service-learning methods throughout their curriculum;