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Driscoll, Amy – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter describes the impact that participation in the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement had on the institutions of higher learning that applied for the classification. This is described in terms of changes in direct community engagement, monitoring and reporting on community engagement, and levels of student and professor…
Descriptors: Classification, Institutional Characteristics, Service Learning, School Community Programs
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Hoey, J. Joseph; Feld-Gore, Jeffrey A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter describes the impact of an alternative spring break program on students at the Savannah College of Art and Design over a set of years as well as its effectiveness as a service-learning tool.
Descriptors: Student Participation, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Bureau, Daniel A.; Cole, James S.; McCormick, Alexander C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2014
This chapter examines the differences between institutions with high and low levels of involvement in service learning as well as the differences between students with high and low levels of involvement. The study shows a correlation between institutional organization and service-learning emphasis and describes, at the student level, correlations…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Institutional Characteristics, Incidence, Student Participation
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Stevens, Courtney – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
This article describes the Community Grant Writing Project (CGWP), a flexible service-learning framework designed for use in writing-intensive courses. The CGWP incorporates best-practice recommendations from the service-learning literature and addresses recent challenges identified for successful service-learning partnerships. In the CGWP,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Grantsmanship, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
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Dostilio, Lina D.; Conti, Norman; Kronk, Rebecca; Weideman, Yvonne L.; Woodley, Sarah K.; Trun, Nancy – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2013
This article presents three cases of community-engaged, or "public," scholarship across diverse disciplines (social science, natural science, and health science) in which the rigid boundaries of what has been conceived as traditional service-learning have been blurred. The innovations represented within these cases explicitly address…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences
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Perren, James; Grove, Nuray; Thornton, Julie – TESOL Journal, 2013
This article describes three service-learning projects implemented in three different ESL programs in the United States. Each description includes typical course goals, service-learning assignments, reflection activities, student learning outcomes, and pedagogical challenges. The first project was developing digital literacy through…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Curriculum Implementation, Program Descriptions
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Haddock, Shelly; Weiler, Lindsey; Krafchick, Jennifer; Zimmerman, Toni S.; McLure, Merinda; Rudisill, Sarah – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
College student mentors are increasingly mentoring at-risk youth, yet little is known about the benefits that college students derive from their experience mentoring within the context of a service-learning course. This qualitative study used focus groups to examine college students' experiences as participants in a unique program, Campus Corps:…
Descriptors: Mentors, Service Learning, College Students, Focus Groups
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Hegeman, Carol R.; Roodin, Paul; Gilliland, Kari A.; O'Flathabhain, Kate Bliss – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2010
In August 2006, the Foundation for Long Term Care (Albany, New York) received funding for a variant on service learning in elder care in which Boomers, other older adults, as well as college students would jointly engage in service-learning projects designed to address community needs in five different college towns and cities. This article…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Service Learning, Participant Satisfaction, Intergenerational Programs
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Eifler, Karen E.; Kerssen-Griep, Jeff; Thacker, Peter – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
This article describes a particular endeavor, the Bridge Builders Academic Mentoring Program (BAMP), a partnership between a school of education in a Catholic university in the Northwest and a community-based rites of passage program for adolescent African American males. The partnership exemplifies tenets of Catholic social teaching, in that it…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Mentors, Males, Catholics
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Marullo, Sam; Moayedi, Roxanna; Cooke, Deanna – Teaching Sociology, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Research Projects, Service Learning, Sociology
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Tindall, Ralph H. – Journal of School Psychology, 1973
The proposed contiguous model of applied experience woven with planned didactic sequences meets most of the professional training needs of school psychologists enrolled in the University of South Carolina Training Program. The student in the doctoral program will have acquired fundamental skills in four important areas of school psychology;…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Educational Programs, Internship Programs
Jarema, Christina – 1973
The Student Consultant Project (SCP) of the University of Pittsburgh is a university-based operation which has been channeling university resources into the community. Part I of this study, covering the history of SCP, emphasizes the organization, the board of directors, scope of activities, funding, and future plans. Part II discusses the…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Programs, Consultation Programs, Higher Education
Biasco, Frank – 1976
The University of West Florida has developed a program in which students are able to serve as volunteers to agencies and schools of the community. The psychology department offers credit to any student donating so many clock hours of service per week for 10 weeks or a total or 30 hours per quarter. This paper presents a very brief course outline,…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Involvement, Higher Education, Innovation
Lesesne, Teri S. – State of Reading, 1994
Describes a literacy project (Preschooler's Outreach Program) sponsored by a public library and staffed by students from the children's literature classes at a Texas university. Shows that college students participating in this project have unique insights into literacy acquisition among young children and are able to put into immediate practice…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, College Students, Higher Education, Literacy
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Mulford, Carolyn – Change, 1983
Brazil's Project Rondon, an educational program aimed at broadening a student's education and to assist in the development of the nation's most poverty-stricken areas, is described. Teaching the poor to meet their own needs is the guiding philosophy. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Developing Nations, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
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