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The Service-Learning Scholars Program At The Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, Irene Fisher, Linda Bonar
The Service-Learning Scholars Program At The Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, Irene Fisher, Linda Bonar
Higher Education
The creation of the Service-Learning Scholars Program (SLSP) represents the culmination of five years of experiential learning in the University of Utah's Lowell Bennion Community Service Center. The initiation of this program also signals the beginning of the second major growth stage in the integration of community service into the mainstream of this major state university.
Students Teaching Students: A Model For Service And Study, Peter W. Dillon, Robyn Van Riper
Students Teaching Students: A Model For Service And Study, Peter W. Dillon, Robyn Van Riper
Higher Education
When students teach each other, something magic happens. Professors and teachers alike spend much of their time trying to create connecting moments of inspiration when new ideas light up a student's face (Duckworth, 1987). At LEAD USA, a non-profit organization in Williamstown, Massacl1usetts, we have found a way to increase the likelihood of these moments of enlightenment. We call it Students Teaching Students (STS). Students Teaching Students is an innovative curricular model in the tradition of John Dewey and Paulo Freire that provides college students with opportunities to design and teach their own courses for full academic credit.
Challenging College Students' Assumptions About Community Service Tutoring, Jodi L. Borstein
Challenging College Students' Assumptions About Community Service Tutoring, Jodi L. Borstein
Higher Education
Many adults view community service as a wonderful idea that college students should want to do-or be required to do-as part of their education; yet few have asked why students volunteer for community service. Policymakers and education reformers see student involvement as a way for students to give back to their communities while attending higher education institutions. More than 1,700 tutoring or mentoring programs for at-risk youth are currently operating in institutions of higher education across the country (Tierney & Branch, 1992, p. 1).
Community Colleges: School Community Relationships, David Deckelbaum
Community Colleges: School Community Relationships, David Deckelbaum
Higher Education
The community college functions of community service and continuing education persistently tie the colleges' goals and objectives to their surrounding communities. The community colleges have an opportunity to invest in their own future by embracing and nurturing their relationship with the community. This fostering of an enhanced school- community connection occurs when the colleges involve themselves in the educational, cultural, recreational, and social services of the community. The economic and business links to the community must be strengthened where they already exist and new programs promoted with an eye toward mutually beneficial endeavors.
Teaming Up At Ucla: A Report To The Campus Outreach Opportunity League, Robert D. Shumer, Parvin Kassaie
Teaming Up At Ucla: A Report To The Campus Outreach Opportunity League, Robert D. Shumer, Parvin Kassaie
Higher Education
Do community service. This has been the charge of reports on post-secondary education for the past several years. From the Carnegie report (College: The Undergraduate Experience in Higher Education, 1987) to the passage of "human corps" legislation in California, efforts have been undertaken to expand the number of college students involved in service. Yet students have always done service. Boy Scouts, Key Clubs, Red Cross, fraternities and sororities, undergraduate student projects for the homeless, hungry, and illiterate have .been outlets for service for years. While so many service programs already exist, the real issue is: how do we get a …
Models Of Service And Civic Education: An Occasional Paper Of The Project On Integrating Service And Academic Study, Keith Morton
Models Of Service And Civic Education: An Occasional Paper Of The Project On Integrating Service And Academic Study, Keith Morton
Higher Education
Citizenship education is generally recognized as the primary reason for supporting service-learning on college campuses. Assumptions about citizenship affect how programs and curricula are structured. An analysis of programs around the country identified four sets of "core assumptions" about civic education that inform service-learning courses and programs. This paper is intended to be useful to faculty designing service-learning courses and to those who want to make explicit multiple frameworks for understanding service experiences.
Voluntary Action On The College Campus - From Theory To Practice, Debra Floerchinger
Voluntary Action On The College Campus - From Theory To Practice, Debra Floerchinger
Higher Education
President and Mrs. Bush committed his administration to the promotion of volunteer service in the President's Inaugural Address in January l989. The "Points of Light Initiative" was announced in June 1989 to advance volunteerism and community service on the national level. This initiative created a foundation to promote these ideals.
Differences Among Community Service Volunteers, Extracurricular Volunteers, And Nonvolunteers On The College Campus, R. Thomas Fitch
Differences Among Community Service Volunteers, Extracurricular Volunteers, And Nonvolunteers On The College Campus, R. Thomas Fitch
Higher Education
Students involved in volunteer community service activities display different demographic characteristics and inte1personal values than do other students.
The Role Of Service-Learning In Today's College Curriculum, Dwight E. Giles
The Role Of Service-Learning In Today's College Curriculum, Dwight E. Giles
Higher Education
When I am given a topic or question to address I find that playing with the topic produces intellectual stimulation, helps to develop a clearer focus for my thoughts, and provides a respectable form of procrastination. This topic has been no exception in providing all three of the above; I'd like to begin by suggesting some ways we might play with the topic together over the next few minutes.
Community Service And Critical Thinking: An Exploratory Analysis Of Collegiate Influences, Eric L. Dey
Community Service And Critical Thinking: An Exploratory Analysis Of Collegiate Influences, Eric L. Dey
Higher Education
Interest in encouraging undergraduates to become involved in community service has grown rapidly over the past several years. In addition to the formation of groups such as the Campus Compact, this interest can be seen in the curricula of numerous colleges which have instituted community services requirements for graduation. Interest in critical thinking has increased as well, with widespread agreement among educators that critical thinking should be an important, if not central, goal of education. Although critical thinking has long been valued by educators at all (Siegel, 1980), the importance placed upon the development of critical thinking has recently been …
Student Involvement In Community Service: Institutional Commitment And The Campus Compact, Alexander W. Astin
Student Involvement In Community Service: Institutional Commitment And The Campus Compact, Alexander W. Astin
Higher Education
Although interest in involving students in community service has been growing rapidly among higher education institutions, there has so far been little systematic study of who the volunteers are and of which institutional practices actually encourage student participation in community service. The study reported here presents some provocative new findings concerning factors that contribute to student participation in, and institutional commitment to community service. The data on which the study is based were recently collected in connection with a large-scale national study of undergraduate education that we have been conducting with support from grants by the Exxon Education Foundation and …
Do Faculty Connect School To Work? Evidence From Community Colleges, Dominic J, Brewer, Maryann Jacobi Gray
Do Faculty Connect School To Work? Evidence From Community Colleges, Dominic J, Brewer, Maryann Jacobi Gray
Higher Education
Despite an emphasis in recent policy on connecting school to work, relatively little is known about how these connections are made and what they look like. In this article, we explore the relationship between community college faculty and their local labor markets.We use a unique national survey that provides the first systematic data from a large number of faculty on this issue, supplemented by case studies. We show that faculty engage in a range of relatively low-level connecting activities; stronger connections are rare. Faculty receive minimal institutional support for such efforts. There are several important barriers to improving linkages related …
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Higher Education
"A thousand points of light ... Lifetime national service ... Be part of the solution ... The volunteer initiative ... Corporate volunteerism ... " These and other slogans have become popularized during the past few years as the "Me Generation" is being replaced by the "We Generation." Yes, volunteerism is once more in vogue, but the issues of the '80s and '90s arc different from those of the '60s. Vietnam and civil rights versus illiteracy and homelessness. Today's issues are less personal for today's typical college students. Very few of them have personally experienced illiteracy or having been homeless. But …
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Higher Education
A study of college students involved m. community service volunteer activities found that students' interpersonal values differed relative to whether they were involved through religious, Social Greek, or service organizations.
The National Agenda, Paul A. Elsner
The Classroom Researcher's Research Agenda, American Association For Higher Education
The Classroom Researcher's Research Agenda, American Association For Higher Education
Higher Education
Involvement and critique from educators in dialogue with researchers is a critical element for achieving clarity about what research will benefit educational policy and practice. The AAHE Research Forum is convened annually to involve individuals committed to research and scholarship in higher education. The Forum stimulates educators' involvement in creating a research agenda that speaks to current educational concerns. Since each year's agenda is developed around the conference theme, educators and researchers can continually rely on the Forum agenda as an up-to-date source of research questions of common interest that flow from the year's most central educational issues. The Forum …
Service Experience And The Moral Development Of College Students, Margaret Gorman, Joesph Duffy, Margaret Heffernan
Service Experience And The Moral Development Of College Students, Margaret Gorman, Joesph Duffy, Margaret Heffernan
Higher Education
A considerable body of literature on deliberate moral education is now accumulating. Blatt was the first to explore the effect of 'classroom discussion on the level of moral judgment, Others have continued to report on moral education in both the secondary and college levels,
Toward Cognitive Development Through Field Studie, Barbara A. Hursh, Lenore Borzak
Toward Cognitive Development Through Field Studie, Barbara A. Hursh, Lenore Borzak
Higher Education
Although field study is as ancient as the apprenticeship concept, field study programs have been recreated in recent years as innovative features of many colleges and universities. These programs are as diverse as the institutions that sponsor them. Some are part of cooperative education plans whereby students alternate between a term on campus in regular classwork and a term off-campus in paid employment. Others combine working and studying in the same term. Nearly all have as a primary objective exposing students to a world or perspective beyond the traditional classroom, usually for the purpose of advancing career planning.
Environmental Education: A Community /University Approach, Tom P. Abeles
Environmental Education: A Community /University Approach, Tom P. Abeles
Higher Education
The current reassessment of higher education [1-4], coupled with increasing concern for our environment, has indicated several shortcomings in science-oriented curricula. Perhaps the most obvious one is that most basic courses in physics and chemistry focus the primary learning experience in the classroom. This isolation from the real world is further enforced by laboratory experiments which are primarily pedagogical exercises with little or no direct application to existing problems~only the techniques and principles Which are learned can be carried over, and often this can be done only indirectly.
Attitudes Of Returning Peace Corps Volunteers Concerning Impact Of Peace Corps Interlude On Subsequent Academic Work, Mary Abrams, Terrence Cullinan
Attitudes Of Returning Peace Corps Volunteers Concerning Impact Of Peace Corps Interlude On Subsequent Academic Work, Mary Abrams, Terrence Cullinan
Higher Education
A survey was undertaken in the summer of 1969, as part of the Interlude Research Program, among young people who had recently concluded service as Peace Corps Volunteers. The study's objectives were to (a) assess the impact of the Peace Corps interlude on subsequent formal education, (b) obtain respondent opinions on the educational value of the Peace Corps interlude itself, and (c) examine what steps, if any, the formal education system in the United States had taken toward :incorporating such an experience in formal academic programs.
Interlude Programs In U.S. Undergraduate Education, Terrence Cullinan
Interlude Programs In U.S. Undergraduate Education, Terrence Cullinan
Higher Education
A survey was undertaken in the spring of 1969, as part of the Interlude Research Program, to (a) determine the attitudes of U.S. undergraduate institutions towards incorporation of formal off-campus experiences (academic interludes) as part of their educational program; (b) learn something about the current extent of ongoing interlude programs; (c) indicate some of the parameters of the ongoing programs; and (d) discover how some of those concerned with ongoing programs on individual campuses rate their own programs. The survey, based on responses to a questionnaire sent to as many four-year undergraduate (college and university) institutions as could be identified, …
Service Experience And Educational Growth, Donald J. Eberly
Service Experience And Educational Growth, Donald J. Eberly
Higher Education
What the Establishment can't grasp is that you can get a better education from two years with VISTA or the Peace Corps than from four years in your major universities