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Vol. 6 No. 2

Innovative Pedagogy: A Partnership Model for Designing Service-Learning Projects

Submitted
August 13, 2010
Published
2010-08-13

Abstract

This paper describes the Rural Alaska Taxpayer Outreach Program, a service-learning program developed by the Alaska Business Development Center, the State of Alaska–Division of Investments, the Internal Revenue Service, and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Faculty involvement was a crucial element in both the initial development and subsequent growth of the outreach program. What began as a student volunteer service has expanded to become an extremely popular senior-level accounting course. Under this outreach program, teams of accounting faculty and students travel to remote villages in rural Alaska to provide free taxpayer assistance. The taxpayers receive free tax preparation services, but the most lasting benefits accrue to the faculty and students who participate in this service-learning activity.