Recently added articles from Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning:
A conceptual model to explore faculty community engagement.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Wade, Amy ... Context and Background Since the founding of Harvard in 1636, American universities have existed, in part, to serve the needs of society (Bringle, 1999; Gonzalez & Padilla, 2008). Today, however, many leaders call upon American higher education to reclaim its historical ...
Program planning: the neglected dimension of service-learning.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Sandmann, Lorilee R. ... Introducing Program Planning Theory to Service-Learning Research on service-learning continues to document its impact on undergraduate students, faculty, institutions, and communities; however, it fails to capture the planning and process dimensions that lead to diverse ...
A case study of a community-based participatory evaluation research (CBPER) project: reflections on promising practices and shortcomings.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Puma, Jini ... Community-based research (CBR) is collaborative, change-oriented research that engages faculty members, students, and community members in projects addressing community-identified needs (Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, & Donohue, 2003). With its roots in action research, participatory ...
Language ideologies and the settlement house movement: a new history for service-learning.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Rabin, Lisa M. ... Recent migration patterns in and to the United States due to globalization have profoundly influenced demographics in our local communities. The wide-ranging community service-learning practices in the United States thus involve a significant portion of work with new immigrants. Recent ...
Service-learning from a distance: partnering multiple universities and local governments in a large scale initiative.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Poindexter, Sandra ... One premise of this paper is that the diffusion, or adoption level, of service-learning in higher education has reached a tipping point where complex models are ready to be employed. Two measures of advancing diffusion are research activities and institutional acceptance. Eyler and other ...
The writing program and the call to service: a progress report from a L and Grant University.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Sawyer, Paul ... Imagine yourself in a prison-yard at night. A small square of earth, covered over with cracked asphalt, enclosed by a vile institution. The halogen-lights perched on the prison's roof-tops do nothing to keep track of the hundreds of men pacing about in search of some escape; the lights do, ...
The prospects for engaged writing in 21st-century academe.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Feigenbaum, Paul ... Nearly twenty years ago, Ernest Boyer (1991) encapsulated his dream of the engaged university in an article called "Creating the New American College." Boyer envisioned an interdisciplinary movement of scholars working with one another, their students, and community partners to produce ...
