If you are interested in taking part in Service Learning, but your school hasn't set up a Service Learning program yet, don't despair. Maybe you can pioneer the program at your college or university! Since a lot of educators and administrators are becoming more interested in Service Learning, it should not be hard to find people at your school who would support your endeavor and help you design a program.

How do you start? The secret is in recognizing opportunity and acting upon it. For instance:

• An accounting student may see an opportunity to investigate loan-credit discrimination on behalf of the poor, or to help a local organization obtain financing for local improvement projects.

• An agriculture student can help establish a community gardening project or aid in dietary planning for local agencies.

• A person studying to be an architect can help coordinate a local fix-up project. I was once involved in a project where a young, student architect directed us in repairing the roof for a church that was the home of an extensive Head Start project. Without the new roof, the kids would have had nowhere to go.

• Students majoring in marketing or business can do much to increase the bottom line of local groups, organizations and small businesses.

• Chemistry students can learn some of the effects that substance abuse has on individuals by serving in counseling and drug-treatment centers.

• Those students majoring in computer information technology have the chance to teach computer basics at just about any community center in any town in the country. People are desperate to learn these skills, which are crucial to job marketability. These students can also show people the right and wrong way to use computer technology.

• People majoring in economics have a tremendous doorway to opportunity in front of them. They can professionally serve consumer groups, small business organizations and local Goodwill agencies. Their knowledge of economics can help troubled people see new solutions to their money problems.

• The Education major can open up another gold mine of opportunities. Head Start programs, for example, will welcome education majors with open arms. Tutoring for older adults or prison inmates is another project an education student can take on.

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