Add to ORKGIn a recent article, Creating the New American College, Ernest Boyer challenges higher education to reconsider its mission to be that of educating students for a life as responsible citizens, rather than educating students solely for a career. By doing so, the New American College will take pride in connecting theory to practice in order to meet challenging social problems, particularly those faced by universities in urban settings. As Ira Harkavey of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships has noted, Universities cannot afford to remain shores of affluence, self-importance and horticultural beauty at the edge of island seas of squalor, violence and despair [5, p. A48]. Emphasizing service has the potential to...
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Historically, higher education institutions have charged departments such as Academic Affairs with s...
The current interest in service learning provides universities with a unique opportunity to engage t...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
The service-learning movement has become a major presence within higher education. More than 950 col...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of students involved in c...
Until very recently the service-learning movement has had an ideological bias; i.e., it has tended...
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
This article takes a critical look at the attempted institutionalization of service-learning in high...
Calls are increasingly sounded for universities to better address their communities\u27 and students...
Today’s college students are graduating high school without the skills necessary to undertake the re...
Published ArticleInstitutions of higher education have multiple purposes. These purposes focus mainl...
Southern University is rare, if not unique, among public institutions in requiring undergraduates to...
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Historically, higher education institutions have charged departments such as Academic Affairs with s...
The current interest in service learning provides universities with a unique opportunity to engage t...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
The service-learning movement has become a major presence within higher education. More than 950 col...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of students involved in c...
Until very recently the service-learning movement has had an ideological bias; i.e., it has tended...
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
This article takes a critical look at the attempted institutionalization of service-learning in high...
Calls are increasingly sounded for universities to better address their communities\u27 and students...
Today’s college students are graduating high school without the skills necessary to undertake the re...
Published ArticleInstitutions of higher education have multiple purposes. These purposes focus mainl...
Southern University is rare, if not unique, among public institutions in requiring undergraduates to...
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Historically, higher education institutions have charged departments such as Academic Affairs with s...