Explores the possibility of creating an integrated, intentional approach to service learning and civic engagement in higher education, rather than the "helter-skelter" approach that is currently common. Discusses different faces/phases of academic citizenship. (EV)

Discusses why liberal and professional education must be reinvented to include socially responsive knowledge as a key component of every college student's education. Describes faculty attitudes toward civic engagement and faculty initiatives at Portland State University. (EV)

Describes the community involvement and redevelopment efforts of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, including the implications for curriculum, the importance of evaluation, and the need to institutionalize such efforts. (EV)

Asserts that juxtaposing traditional notions of liberal education with emerging views of civic engagement, captured most forcefully by the service learning movement, reveals common themes rooted in a democratic vision of society and the power of education to advance citizenship. (EV)

Examines the effectiveness of service learning as a pedagogy through a case study of one of the oldest continuously operating service learning programs, the Joint Educational Project at the University of Southern California. (EV)

Describes initiatives in community-based participatory research by students at Pitzer College, such as the creation of the Pomona Day Labor Center and the school's Center for California Cultural and Social Issues. (EV)