This excerpt from Project Brief, the newsletter of the American Association of Community Colleges, highlights a service-learning project from a rural community college in Montana that focuses on reducing household hazardous waste materials through community education. Making the Waste Not project at Flathead Valley Community College a success depended on a number of strategic actions by program staff and members, including identifying a service-learning coordinator to work with a faculty liaison and increasing awareness of the service-learning program.
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