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In this article, Sigmon lays out different types of service arrangements: customer services, personal services, public services, human services, voluntary services, relief services, military service, worship service and development service. Three service learning principles that Sigmon states are: 1. Those being served control the service provided, 2. Those being served become better able to serve and be served by their own actions, and 3. Those who serve are learners and have significant control over what is expected to be learned.

This essay, which was never officially published, presents perspectives on the educational characteristics of production and service sites in the business, governmental, and independent sectors of American society. Sigmon hopes to expand experiential learning through employee and citizen participation in systematic study of organizational dilemmas. Experiential learning is suggested as one major source for educators and employers to come together for the purpose of responding to the new relationships.

Sigmon begins the paper by stating that there are many public issues that are not receiving adequate attention by governmental and private organizations, including: nutritional problems, illiteracy, housing, health care, and lack of educational opportunities. Sigmon proposes that service-learning is a method to help our community while also learning many useful things. He describes the success he has had in North Carolina with his internship program and encourages the people of Alabama to increase student involvement with public need based learning. He concludes by saying that service-learning can develop servant-leaders who will take the risks, imagine the ideologies, and provide the structures so that society can improve.

In this newspaper clipping, Sigmon writes to the editor about the North Carolina public officials approval of a $300 million school bond issue on November 6th. Sigmon argues that the tax payers should not have to pay for construction of new schools and instead the government should pay for it with the surplus of the fiscal year. Sigmon also points out that only predominately white communities were getting new schools built in their areas. Sigmon closes by urging voters to think about their vote and ask questions before voting to raise taxes.

This report on questionnaire data from summer 1973 intern and supervisor participants in North Carolina state government internship programs contains a foreword, highlights of data, introduction, responses to general questions, most important dimension of internship experience, role of supervisor, the Monday seminars for interns, usefulness of summer listing of interns, future project suggestions by interns, supervisor comments, future program development, and a concluding postscript.

In this article, Sigmon and his graduate assistant David Kiel discuss service-learning internship programs to be implemented across North Carolina. They discuss program design options for meeting student and agency needs, recruiting and selecting interns, training for intern supervisors, the service-learning internship model, and lastly service-learning definition, thesis, and principles. They conclude that student internships have many dimensions, generated by multiple host-agency and student needs and goals.

This article published by the Department of Administration lists out various internships available to students in North Carolina. This article examines the efforts of the government to encourage service learning, the Student Internship Advisory council, and existing student involvement in North Carolina. The article continues to describe the different opportunities at colleges across the state.

The North Carolina Student Involvement Assistance Center Proposal was intended to convince state government to utilize the manpower, financial resources and experiential learning potential. Sigmon lays out the various problems associated with the internship programs in North Carolina, the goal, plan of operation, management strategy, planned impact, and funding alternatives. Sigmon also encloses a four year goal of the program including number of students, estimated cost, and weeks of work provided.

Sigmon's speech argues that students would get a better education if they venture outside of the classroom walls and into the community. Sigmon wanted to establish service-learning opportunities for 16-24 year olds within government, churches, and private organizations. He also lays out five basic principles to guide service and learning activities and a plan of operation for the internships.

Sigmon's speech argues that students would get a better education if they venture outside of the classroom walls and into the community. Sigmon wanted to establish service-learning opportunities for 16-24 year olds within government, churches, and private organizations. He also lays out five basic principles to guide service and learning activities and a plan of operation for the internships.