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Direct linkFurco, Andrew – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Offers three strategies for overcoming the challenges of advancing and institutionalizing service learning at research universities. The strategies address making service learning integral to faculty research, the university mission, and the disciplines. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Program Development, Public Service
Shumer, Robert – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Explains how professors can engage disabled students in service learning, noting that such students are good candidates for providing service to others. Discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals with disabilities as recipients of service, individuals with disabilities as service providers, and practical advice for developing…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Disabilities, Higher Education
Ikeda, Elaine K. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Offers some resources for faculty initiates to service learning that may assist them in understanding service learning and the role it can have in enhancing learning among college students. Describes the contents of several publications on service learning. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Program Development, Public Service
Zlotkowski, Edward – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Discusses steps a liberal arts college should take if it wishes to develop an academically and socially effective service-learning program: revisit the college's mission, assemble resources, connect service learning to similar concerns, form a plan for faculty development, and reward faculty who use service learning. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Program Development
O'Byrne, Kathy – New Directions for Higher Education, 2001
Offers solutions for faculty working to educate colleagues and administrators to support their use of service learning or who want to access campus resources and support for service learning. Discusses solutions to challenges such as "We already do that,""It takes too much time and effort," and "We're not here to teach…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, College Faculty, College Instruction
Gaff, Jerry G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1978
Many teaching improvement programs proceed with only minimal student participation, but students can make important contributions at each stage of program development--from assessing the changes needed to evaluating the results.
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Faculty Development
LaPidus, Jules B. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
Graduate education is preparation for research, scholarship, jobs and careers (faculty, industrial, other forms of work), and for life, and change is occurring in all these areas. Several qualitatively different approaches are being suggested to improve graduate students' education while adapting to change; all take time and increase the workload…
Descriptors: Career Development, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction
