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Changing Landscapes: Enduring Values, Angela Bodino
Changing Landscapes: Enduring Values, Angela Bodino
Service Learning, General
The campus of Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) seems pastoral with 160 acres of woods, a pond, and gentle grassy slopes. Two miles to the west are two golf courses and farmland. Two miles east are homes built in the 17th and 18th Centuries close to the North Branch of the Raritan River, close to a colonial cemetery and the soaring spire of the Reformed Church. This setting reminds us of an early American ethic of hope and change, the promise of vast spaces, new destinies and new communities.
Highlights Of Campus Compact's Annual Membership Survey, Campus Compact
Highlights Of Campus Compact's Annual Membership Survey, Campus Compact
Service Learning, General
The trend toward increasing civic engagement among colleges and universities is stronger than ever. In Campus Compact's 2003 survey, member institutions reported not only record participation in community service but also an increase in structural and financial support for initiatives to improve communities and to make civic learning part of academic life.
Long-Term Effects Of Community Service Programs, James Beane, Joan Turner, David Jones, Richard Lipka
Long-Term Effects Of Community Service Programs, James Beane, Joan Turner, David Jones, Richard Lipka
Service Learning, General
The need to develop connections between life in the school and that in the community is a recurring theme in educational literature. Of the many means for doing this, one of the more prominent is experiential learning or "planned opportunities for learning outside the classroom" (Hamilton 1980). Within the experiential learning concept, one variation which has received a good deal of attention is youth participation programs or community service projects (Olsen 1946; National Society for the Study of Education 1953; Harnack 1974; Coleman 1974; National Commission on Resources for Youth 1974). Such programs involve the active engagement of youth in …