C. Wright Mills would be a friendly critic of service learning, acknowledging its benefits for providing students with experiential learning opportunities to connect personal troubles with social issues. Yet he would be critical of service-learning practices that perpetuate institutional power inequalities and that do not advance the social change…

At the Center for the Study of Local Issues, at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland, students participate in research and development activities dealing with issues that have an impact on the local community. The emergence, structure, and activities of the center are described. (Author/RM)

The opportunities, challenges, and lessons of the pilot phase of a community development program in a small liberal arts college are presented and conceptualized in this paper. We based this program on an experiential learning model derived from Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and Stephen Brookfield's notion of critically responsive learning. A…