Integrating Academic Service Projects with Learning Process to Promote Public Mind

Abstract

Public mind involves a matter of which the public and society should have recognized and valued. A society where the citizens are in pursuit of self-interest rather than public interest, such society waits for a time of function collapse.  The public mind is necessitated to be cultured in public consciousness. This article discusses the participatory role of the educational institutions in promoting the public mind attributes to the students and youths who will become the future of the nation. The ‘public mind’ subject is integrated with the instruction, that is; academic services have been integrated into instructional arrangement through the projects. The integration is one of the effective and popular methods, consisting of the main process;  1) define a topic of the academic service project consistently with subject content, using the brainstorming and presentation of topics,  2) planning for solutions under the supervision of the instructor, 3) implement the planned academic service program and encourage the participants across all sectors to evaluate the project, and lastly 4) summarize the results of the implementation of the academic service project to society, integrating through activities to promote learning and development, coupled with culturing the public mind and generosity as a giver on  topics the students pay attention and are willing to provide a meaningful contribution to society.