Add to ORKGToday’s college students are graduating high school without the skills necessary to undertake the responsibility involved in college level academic work and lifestyles. Additionally, recent national surveys have shown that students are increasingly becoming more academically and socially disengaged (Sax, Astin, Korn, & Mahoney, 1999). In response, educators have begun to focus first-year programs on supporting students in terms of grade-based, academic achievement. Within the context of current theory and research in the field, this article will investigate the potential of service-learning as a forum for students to develop more holistically (academically, personally, and civically) within the context of first-year programs
This article explores the First-Year Experience movement’s origins and influence on curricular and c...
This article addresses the importance for student affairs professionals to have proficient knowledge...
Service learning is a technique that enables teachers to combine the academic curriculum with commun...
In a recent article, Creating the New American College, Ernest Boyer challenges higher education t...
Until very recently the service-learning movement has had an ideological bias; i.e., it has tended...
Though the new and exciting field of service learning has rapidly expanded to kindergarten through c...
In the 20 years since Zlotkowski (1995) called for curricular integration of service-learning (SL) a...
College students will face a workplace transformed even from the one that existed five years ago. Pu...
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
Retention of college students is a priority of all colleges and universities. This research investig...
This article reports on the effects of infusing a 20-hour per semester service-learning requirement ...
The service-learning movement has become a major presence within higher education. More than 950 col...
Service-learning is a High Impact Practice (AAC&U, 2012; Gonyea, et al., 2008), and a beneficial lea...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
Although the merits of service learning frequently rest on how well it can be argued that the progra...
This article explores the First-Year Experience movement’s origins and influence on curricular and c...
This article addresses the importance for student affairs professionals to have proficient knowledge...
Service learning is a technique that enables teachers to combine the academic curriculum with commun...
In a recent article, Creating the New American College, Ernest Boyer challenges higher education t...
Until very recently the service-learning movement has had an ideological bias; i.e., it has tended...
Though the new and exciting field of service learning has rapidly expanded to kindergarten through c...
In the 20 years since Zlotkowski (1995) called for curricular integration of service-learning (SL) a...
College students will face a workplace transformed even from the one that existed five years ago. Pu...
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
Retention of college students is a priority of all colleges and universities. This research investig...
This article reports on the effects of infusing a 20-hour per semester service-learning requirement ...
The service-learning movement has become a major presence within higher education. More than 950 col...
Service-learning is a High Impact Practice (AAC&U, 2012; Gonyea, et al., 2008), and a beneficial lea...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
Although the merits of service learning frequently rest on how well it can be argued that the progra...
This article explores the First-Year Experience movement’s origins and influence on curricular and c...
This article addresses the importance for student affairs professionals to have proficient knowledge...
Service learning is a technique that enables teachers to combine the academic curriculum with commun...