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Everyday Interactions With The Tecnosphere: A Critical Educational Path, Annapaola Vacanti, Alessandro Lodovini Sep 2025

Everyday Interactions With The Tecnosphere: A Critical Educational Path, Annapaola Vacanti, Alessandro Lodovini

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Contemporary design risks becoming irrelevant or complicit in a technocratic agenda that prioritizes evidence over values unless future designers are trained to critically understand technology and its impacts on social, economic, political, environmental, and psychological structures. What role does design play in this process? What stance will tomorrow’s designer embrace? These questions form the backbone of the Theories and History of Design course at Università Iuav di Venezia, which focused on the transformation of everyday actions mediated by technology. At the sociological level, two perspectives collide: a critical approach that acknowledges risks to individual freedoms and a techno-optimist view that …

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Designing Scaffolding Cards For Design Challenges In K-12 Settings, Saad Shehab, Jane Pak, Roya Attarian, Michelle Heredia Sep 2025

Designing Scaffolding Cards For Design Challenges In K-12 Settings, Saad Shehab, Jane Pak, Roya Attarian, Michelle Heredia

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This paper explores the development of scaffolding tools, specifically a card template, to support high school teachers and students in human-centered design (HCD) problem-based learning challenges. Drawing on research-supported design principles, we present a versatile template that can be used to create cards that can support students as they work on design challenges. We demonstrate the use of the template to create cards that can facilitate high school students’ engagement in design challenges that apply math and design to address social justice issues. We present our plans for prototyping the design and use of these cards with teachers and students …

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Pluralism In Design Education: Mental Models And Decision-Making, Jennifer Rittner Sep 2025

Pluralism In Design Education: Mental Models And Decision-Making, Jennifer Rittner

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Designers for "social good" and "social impact" must critically examine the assumptions and mental models that shape their understanding of the communities they aim to serve. This essay argues that embracing pluralistic, non-fixed conceptions of identity and positionality is crucial for creating truly inclusive and equitable design practices. Through frameworks that deconstruct the idea of fixed identities, designers can surface their unconscious biases and unlearn harmful originating myths about marginalized groups being culturally, socially, cognitively, or physically "deficient." The essay presents flexible positionality matrices that position aspects of identity along spectrums of fixed, fluid, conditional, and temporal states of being. …

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Permaculture Of Game Development Education: The Intertwined Nature Of Games Research And Game Design Practice, Asli Tece Bayrak, Sofia Piven Sep 2025

Permaculture Of Game Development Education: The Intertwined Nature Of Games Research And Game Design Practice, Asli Tece Bayrak, Sofia Piven

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Game development is an interdisciplinary collaborative process which involves programming, art, and design expertise. A game development education, therefore, builds upon the already unique challenges of learning game programming and game art, while acknowledging that successful video game development relies on designing and producing compelling player experiences. Given this complexity, to date there is not a standardized approach to building game development curriculum. Recent curriculum overviews reflect a large degree of variation in foci - technical degrees focusing on courses such as mathematics, physics, programming, graphics or art degrees focusing on courses such as 2D or 3D art, animation, world …

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Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design Through Place-Based Learning, Azeem Hamid, Umar Hameed Sep 2025

Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Design Through Place-Based Learning, Azeem Hamid, Umar Hameed

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In this paper we examine the transformative potential of place-based design education through a collaborative, cross-cultural project involving first-year design students from the Pakistan Institute of Fashion & Design (PIFD) and Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore, in partnership with the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) in Uganda. Utilizing a critical place-based pedagogical methodology, the project aimed to foster creative problem-solving, and cross-cultural collaboration through experiential and outdoor learning. Over three phases from 2017 to 2019, students participated in multidisciplinary activities that emphasized co-design and participatory practices within real-world contexts. Findings from the project indicate significant enhancement in students' abilities to navigate …

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Futuring Design Education Better: Practice, Experience, And Context, Andrew Whitcomb Sep 2025

Futuring Design Education Better: Practice, Experience, And Context, Andrew Whitcomb

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Design education has a responsibility to continuously reconsider its purpose toward students and society. Yet, despite ongoing discussions about what futures for design education should contain, we have little scholarship on how futuring happens in the present. Without addressing the context of sociotechnical institutions, we run the risk of developing design education futures that perpetuate unsustainable ways of knowing, being, and making. This paper aims to enrich conversations about design education futures by accounting for and critically reflecting on the experience of practicing as a design educator-researcher in a large public research university in the United States. Drawing inspiration from …

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Open Systems, Shared Practices: A Case Study For Postdisciplinary Design Education, Johannes Pointner, Albert Lang, Marc Pfaff Sep 2025

Open Systems, Shared Practices: A Case Study For Postdisciplinary Design Education, Johannes Pointner, Albert Lang, Marc Pfaff

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The M.A. Design & Computation program exemplifies the establishment of interactive learning frameworks that prioritize self-directed and collaborative approaches to knowledge production. Developed as a joint initiative by the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technical University of Berlin, the program integrates participatory design methodologies, iterative processes, and decentralized structures to address the complexities of contemporary challenges. Through key components, such as teaching, its spatial design, and its extended institutional framing, the program creates a dynamic environment where students engage in postdisciplinary collaboration and critically reflect on emerging technologies and societal issues. This paper explores how these interactive frameworks …

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Framework For Ethical Worldbuilding With Solidarity-Driven Co-Design, Laura Cechanowicz, Steven Zuiker, Michelle Jordan, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie Sep 2025

Framework For Ethical Worldbuilding With Solidarity-Driven Co-Design, Laura Cechanowicz, Steven Zuiker, Michelle Jordan, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie

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Diversity is a fundamental resource in co-design processes; however, centering wide-ranging participants around a design rather than individual, disciplinary, or other forms of expertise can be challenging. Expanding the scope of design to include the entanglements of temporality and community amplifies these challenges. Addressing these challenges requires a reconfiguration of the fundamental relationships between designers, researchers, research participants, collaborators, and the land and place where research and design outcomes occur, including a deeper form of engagement with communities. Despite the substantial groundwork existing approaches have developed, emerging efforts challenge us to conceptualize an ethical approach for recognizing, working with, and …

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Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara Sep 2025

Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara

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This paper discusses the results and content of letters written by students, as the final assignment in a design theory class. The proposal involved using correspondence as a method of reflection. The aim was to explore the pedagogical potential of letter writing to foster reflective learning in design, as well as to examine epistolary writing as an activity that promotes analytical thinking and a deeper understanding of design as both a practice and a discipline. Students were challenged to compose letters addressed to someone (living or deceased), something, or somewhere – in the past, present, or even the future – …

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Design, Technology, And Cities: Integrating Design Education Into An Undergraduate Degree In Urban Technology, Matthew Wizinsky, Bryan Boyer Sep 2025

Design, Technology, And Cities: Integrating Design Education Into An Undergraduate Degree In Urban Technology, Matthew Wizinsky, Bryan Boyer

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What role might design education play in preparing urban change-makers in the 21st century? In 2021, the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning launched the first undergraduate program in the United States focused on Urban Technology. This statement of pedagogy describes how the Bachelor of Science in Urban Technology integrates design methods and coursework into a curriculum addressing the intersection of digital technology, urbanism, and city change-making. The program responds to the limited integration of service and interaction design in fields such as urban planning and architecture despite the growing need to design for human outcomes …

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Unraveling The Threads: Designing A Multiverse Of Learning Through Interdisciplinary Co-Creation In Design Education, Debayan Dhar, Sugandha Gaur Sep 2025

Unraveling The Threads: Designing A Multiverse Of Learning Through Interdisciplinary Co-Creation In Design Education, Debayan Dhar, Sugandha Gaur

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This paper proposes a framework for reimagining design education as a "multiverse of learning" where students, educators, industry stakeholders, and communities co-create knowledge through intertwined experiences. It explores the roles of creators, connectors, and catalysts in this multiverse, offering a conceptual model for fostering creative collisions at the intersection of diverse disciplines. The paper also addresses critical tensions, such as ethical dilemmas, power imbalances, and the challenge of maintaining inclusivity in co-creative processes. Drawing on case studies, the paper illustrates how emerging technologies, like AI and collaborative virtual environments, can facilitate uncharted connections in design education. Finally, the paper envisions …

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Mindful Design And Techno-Empathy. Toward A Better Tomorrow, Dominika Sobolewska Sep 2025

Mindful Design And Techno-Empathy. Toward A Better Tomorrow, Dominika Sobolewska

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This paper explores the integration of techno-empathy and mindful design as tools for addressing global challenges through speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing on principles advocated by Neri Oxman and others, it positions design as a bridge between technological progress and imaginative, socially engaged practices. Design is presented not merely a as a medium of representation, but as a research method, persuasive tool, and mode of speculative fabulation—capable of crafting alternative futures through material and interactive experimentation. Mindful Design Studio (MDS) at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design exemplifies these principles by emphasizing simple interactive technologies that create …

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Ug Design Education For Sustainability: Designing For Planet & For Life, Joanna Boehnert, Emma Dewberry Sep 2025

Ug Design Education For Sustainability: Designing For Planet & For Life, Joanna Boehnert, Emma Dewberry

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There is a clear need to augment and expand Design for Sustainability (DfS) and the ecological design thinking that supports it. In the UK, the Design Council’s Design for Planet and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)’s Design for Life programmes both support this agenda. As design educators who have spent our careers advancing ecological and sustainability literacies in Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS), we enthusiastically welcome the momentum generated by both programmes. The Design for Planet mission aims to upskill 1 million UK designers in green design skills by 2030. The RSA’s Capabilities for Life Framework presents life-centric mindsets …

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Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl Sep 2025

Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl

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The interactive, art-based workshop concept Creating Landscapes was piloted twice in November 2024. The workshop invites participants to critically engage with questions of sustainability and materiality through hands-on interaction with discarded objects, addressing the complexity of planetary and societal resources and life in a concrete way. The workshop starts from how we interact with material artefacts and how to create new landscapes and see things differently. Following the initial implementations, we – the designers and facilitators – collected participant feedback to inform future iterations. This case study provides a description of the workshop idea, its implementation process, and preliminary insights, …

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Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi Sep 2025

Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi

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The case study delves into the practices and methodologies employed within CarniaMusei, a network of about 40 small museums located in a mountainous area of 1200 km² in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The project aims to intertwine design education with cultural heritage preservation in a marginalized territory. The contribution illustrates how exhibition design, visual communication and interaction design are combined to create dynamic, multifunctional spaces that serve as cultural, social, and educational hubs. By involving local stakeholders, students, and educators in participatory processes, the outcomes promote inclusivity, sustainability, and adaptability – core principles that align with the …

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Decolonizing The Engineering Designer, Leslie Wexler, Matt Borland, Kate Sellen Sep 2025

Decolonizing The Engineering Designer, Leslie Wexler, Matt Borland, Kate Sellen

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In a dynamic conversation between three design educators, the group explores their experiences in decolonizing education and fostering transformative learning environments. Their discussion emphasizes nurturing the "whole self"—intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions. The educators reflect on how to integrate holistic practices into a graduate level Engineering design reading course (SYDE760 - Decolonizing Engineering Design) that challenged traditional approaches which prioritize technical skills and expertise. Instead, their goal was to balance all aspects of the self, creating spaces where students could authentically engage and grow. The conversation highlights practical classroom experiences associated with Indigenous pedagogies and traditional knowledges, such as …

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Let’S Figure This Out Together: Building Social Support Through Cross-Pollinative Design Studio Pedagogy, Zhengping Liow, Ye Zhang Sep 2025

Let’S Figure This Out Together: Building Social Support Through Cross-Pollinative Design Studio Pedagogy, Zhengping Liow, Ye Zhang

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In an era characterised by global interconnectedness and complexity, integrating diverse perspectives through cross-pollinative design processes has become paramount. However, the unidirectional, the ubiquitous One-on-One Master-Apprentice design studio pedagogy has negated the potential of Social Support towards a divergent and explorative design process. This study discussed the impact of social support on academic scores of beginning design students in two district studio pedagogical frameworks: the traditional One-on-One Master-Apprentice model and the experimental Cross-pollinative Team Learning (CTL) studio pedagogy. With a longitudinal quantitative Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) design, participants’ perceptions of Social Support as Teacher-student relationship (TSR) and Student-student relationship (SSR) …

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Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development, Joan Arches Sep 2025

Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development, Joan Arches

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University service-learning students worked with middle school youth in a social change project addressing positive youth development and civic engagement. Based on their knowledge of positive youth development theory and British Social Action, they facilitated a weekly group in which the youth identified combatting oppression by teachers (adultism) for their project. They discussed the problem, designed surveys, analyzed the data, and presented their findings. The youth demonstrated individual competencies and connected with adults while they learned to work collectively in a community change project.

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Editorial: Critical Incident Planning In Community Engagement, Catherine Stemmans Paterson Sep 2025

Editorial: Critical Incident Planning In Community Engagement, Catherine Stemmans Paterson

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Dispositions Of Higher Education Faculty Toward K-12 Community Outreach, Brett L. Bruyere, Marcos Roybal, Rebecca Thomas Sep 2025

Dispositions Of Higher Education Faculty Toward K-12 Community Outreach, Brett L. Bruyere, Marcos Roybal, Rebecca Thomas

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This study assessed the preparedness and willingness of faculty at a land-grant university to conduct outreach to youth about science. Using a mixed-methods design, faculty were aware of some components of effective youth outreach, but fail to acknowledge the importance of other critical pieces such as linking outreach to educational standards. This study has implications for higher education administrators, particularly those who perceive our universities as a resource for addressing the low science achievement in the United States.

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A User-Friendly Guide To Intergenerational Service Learning, Denise C. Lewis, Desiree M. Seponski Sep 2025

A User-Friendly Guide To Intergenerational Service Learning, Denise C. Lewis, Desiree M. Seponski

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This article describes and provides a timeline for establishing an intergenerational service learning (ISL) program, the Friendly Visitors Program (FVP). The nationally recognized FVP has grown to about 100 students visiting approximately 200 elders each semester in more than 10 different facilities ranging from an adult day center to a small, rural assisted living facility. This article provides a timeline, textbooks, forms, and journal questions so that other scholars can replicate the FVP with ease.

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Safer Spaces: Creating A Supportive Rehabilitation Environment For Gay, Transgender And Questioning Youth, Corey W. Johnson, Edward A. Delgado-Romero Sep 2025

Safer Spaces: Creating A Supportive Rehabilitation Environment For Gay, Transgender And Questioning Youth, Corey W. Johnson, Edward A. Delgado-Romero

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This manuscript describes Safer Spaces, a semester-long outreach program between faculty, students and the Augusta Youth Detention Center Campus (AYDC). The purpose of the project was two-fold: (a) to meet an expressed need of a state agency and (b) to create a unique opportunity for university outreach and service learning. Safer Spaces centered on assessing and meeting the needs of staff and adjudicated youth with resources about gay and transgender identity development in a predominantly African American facility with a group of interdisciplinary service-learning students in Counseling-Psychology, Recreation and Leisure Studies, and Women’s Studies.

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Champions For Outreach And Advocacy For Campus And Community Health: A College-Based Peer Health Coach Program, Vanessa Duren-Winfield, Kimya Nance, Elijah O. Onsomu, Peggy Valentine, Michael Mckenzie, Arthur Roberts Sep 2025

Champions For Outreach And Advocacy For Campus And Community Health: A College-Based Peer Health Coach Program, Vanessa Duren-Winfield, Kimya Nance, Elijah O. Onsomu, Peggy Valentine, Michael Mckenzie, Arthur Roberts

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Few studies have investigated the role Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) students can play in addressing chronic diseases among themselves, their peers, and local community. An overview of a peer health promotion education strategy is provided. Ten students completed an eight-week health disparities curriculum while providing health information and screening to 1,525 campus and community residents. A description of the program and recommendations are provided. Findings support the need for peer student health educators in HBCUs as a model to improve campus and community health outcomes.

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Releases Of Liability For Service-Learning Programs: Effective, Innocuous, Or A Waste Of Time?, Franklyn P. Salimbene Sep 2025

Releases Of Liability For Service-Learning Programs: Effective, Innocuous, Or A Waste Of Time?, Franklyn P. Salimbene

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This paper examines the enforceability of releases of liability relating to college and university students engaged in service-learning. It reviews cases where universities were sued for injuries incurred by students and where signed releases were offered in defense. It then examines key guidelines that courts apply in determining whether such releases are adequate. The paper concludes by offering service-learning educators a number of practical suggestions for drafting and utilizing releases with students engaged in service-learning.

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Community-Based Learning And Social Capital: Exploring Student Attitudes And Perceptions Of Connectedness To Campus And Diverse Communities, August John Hoffman Sep 2025

Community-Based Learning And Social Capital: Exploring Student Attitudes And Perceptions Of Connectedness To Campus And Diverse Communities, August John Hoffman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Community service activities, civic engagement, and volunteer services have been identified as key elements in improving how individuals relate and communicate with each other in society. Social capital also has been described as a highly useful form of social networking that empowers community members to collectively use each other as potential resources. The current study explored how participants from non-traditional backgrounds (i.e., ethnicity, culture, and age) completed a variety of interethnic community service activities. We hypothesized that increased exposure with members of diverse ethnic groups through community service activities would show reductions in ethnocentric attitudes and also show increases in …

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Issues With Implementing Service Learning Into An Agricultural Sciences Equine Program, Aleta C. Overby, Erin Tucker, Aaron Lusby Sep 2025

Issues With Implementing Service Learning Into An Agricultural Sciences Equine Program, Aleta C. Overby, Erin Tucker, Aaron Lusby

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In the spring of 2007 service learning classes were implemented in an equine science program after being funded for animal evacuation and recovery grants. This program was met with great student enthusiasm and participation; however, the authors raise questions about some of the obstacles they have found while implementing this program. The three major areas of concern include the optimum class size for service learning, transportation, and the depth of responses to student reflective pieces.

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How Students Learn In A Service-Learning Course: A Quasi-Experimental Field Study Of Generative Learning, Valerie I. Sessa, Dana K. Natale, Manuel London, Courtney A. Hopkins Sep 2025

How Students Learn In A Service-Learning Course: A Quasi-Experimental Field Study Of Generative Learning, Valerie I. Sessa, Dana K. Natale, Manuel London, Courtney A. Hopkins

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Sessa and London’s (2005, 2006) continuous learning model was used to generate hypotheses suggesting that service-learning courses trigger student engagement in generative learning processes moderated by the students’ prior experience and that engagement in generative learning behaviors impact learning outcomes. 127 students in eight courses participated in a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control group design with a pre-test and two post-tests. Results partially support hypotheses. Implications for theory development, future research, and service learning pedagogy are discussed.

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Consortium, University, And Program Impact On Regional Economy And Community, Sean Creighton, Robert J. Sweeney, Katherine Cauley Sep 2025

Consortium, University, And Program Impact On Regional Economy And Community, Sean Creighton, Robert J. Sweeney, Katherine Cauley

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Community engagement in higher education has become increasingly widespread. As a consequence, universities find themselves learning how to integrate community engagement on their own, from each other, and, hopefully, from their community partners. This article discusses three distinct cases–a consortium, university, and program–and their impacts on a regional economy and community. In addition to illustrating intentional macro to micro community engagement practices, the article notes key findings from regional institutional collaborations. Further, the article recommends benchmarks for evaluating the quality and effective practice of community engagement.

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Service-Learning Pathologies And Prognoses, Roy Schwartzman Sep 2025

Service-Learning Pathologies And Prognoses, Roy Schwartzman

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This essay diagnoses and suggests treatments for several pathologies that afflict service-learning. Structural challenges include geographic isolation and optimization of institutional administration. Student challenges include reinforcing stereotypes, deficiencies in practical skills, elitism regarding suitable service, underdeveloped empathy, and excessive focus on time spent in service. Community partner challenges include appropriately defining student labor and systematically under-reporting negative experiences. The prognosis explores how service-learning projects could instigate student engagement with the systemic nature of social injustice.

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Serve At Your Own Risk?: Service-Learning In The Promotion And Tenure Process, Jacquelyn B. Frank, Mark Malaby, Laura Raidonis Bates, Marcie Coulter-Kern, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, J. R. Jamison, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Nathan A. Schaumleffel Sep 2025

Serve At Your Own Risk?: Service-Learning In The Promotion And Tenure Process, Jacquelyn B. Frank, Mark Malaby, Laura Raidonis Bates, Marcie Coulter-Kern, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, J. R. Jamison, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Nathan A. Schaumleffel

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Pre-tenure faculty integrating service-learning into their professional roles are often uncertain about its position in the faculty reward system. This study gathered data from administrators at five institutions of higher education in Indiana to learn if and how service-learning is credited toward tenure and promotion at their institutions. The results point to the need for junior faculty members and administrators to be cautious when implementing and evaluating service-learning initiatives.

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