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Caro, Cary A.; Lirette, Kolby; Yest, Myke – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
As business organizations face more and more scrutiny for poor leadership practices, American business schools have come under more pressure to prepare students to enter organizations with an understanding of and an appreciation for quality leadership. This manuscript focuses on the introduction of a service-learning project to a Senior Leadership…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Leadership Training, Service Learning, Active Learning
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Wang, Victor X., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
In the twenty-first century, learning and the definition of education is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage learners like never before. In the midst of this technological revolution, it is crucial for educators and administrators to be able to gauge the impact of digital tools on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Research, Andragogy
Vaughn, Rachel L.; Seifer,Sarena D.; Mihalynuk,Tanis Vye – National Service Learning Clearinghouse, 2004
Service-learning in the mathematics curriculum provides a rich opportunity for students to learn while contributing to their communities. Service-learning in higher education integrates community service with academic instruction. Students participate in organized curricular projects, such as tutoring middle-school math students, while enhancing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Community Needs, Service Learning
Howard, Jeffrey, Ed. – 2001
The first two sections of this workbook clarify the conceptualization of academic service-learning and offer a set of foundational resources that prepare the reader for the subsequent design sections. Sections three through five review the three necessary conditions for academic service-learning and take the reader through the course planning…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Hudson, William E. – 1995
Students can learn the value of public service by participating in service learning projects. Through a service learning component, students gain a personal understanding of the public sector and experience with current public issues. In this study students and teachers were assisted by service coordinators who arranged for students to experience…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Public Policy, Service Learning
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Saunders, Martha Dunagin – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1998
Describes one college-faculty member's research project based on the experiences of five college students involved in service learning with children's organizations. Students served as participant-observers at an international conference on children's issues and their field reports yielded a solid profile of ideal environments for children…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Higher Education
Vaughn, Rachel L; Seifer, Sarena; Vye Mihalynuk, Tanis – National Service Learning Clearinghouse, 2004
Service-learning in the chemistry curriculum provides an opportunity for students to learn while contributing to their communities. Examples of chemistry service-learning projects at the post-secondary level include: (1) teaching students about lead poisoning avoidance while assessing and analyzing lead content in the paint of older homes; (2)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Science Projects, Poisoning, Hands on Science
Macy, Jack E. – Campus Activities Programming, 1994
A model for developing a spirit of volunteerism and social responsibility among students on a college campus is outlined. The model incorporates five phases of student development that accompany community service participation. Suggestions are made for implementing such a model effectively within the student affairs function. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education, Models
Duckenfield, Marty; Brown, Scott – 1997
This booklet provides the knowledge and tools college and university students and their professors need to develop a partnership with organizations that work with children who are potential dropouts. Section 1 looks at childhood in the 1990s and section 2 introduces partners who can help potential dropouts. Section 3 considers issues related to…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Brown Univ., Providence, RI. – 1999
This report provides brief descriptions of 83 practices followed by college campuses to educate students to be active, involved citizens and to engage their institutions with their communities. The summaries, arranged alphabetically by school, were prepared by Campus Compact member presidents. A "table of contents" groups practices into the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, College Students
Cooper, Jay – Campus Activities Programming, 1993
Service learning programs, which combine practical volunteer community service experience with traditional academic study, are cost effective and meaningful alternatives to college activities programing. Such programs increase learning options, are good public relations, can involve faculty and departments, and attract a wider variety of students…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Extracurricular Activities
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Gelfand, Donald E.; Firman, James P. – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Discusses potential benefits of service-learning in aging--to students, university, and community. Examines opportunities for service-learning using examples from the current Intergenerational Service-Learning Project of the National Council on Aging. The complexity of initiating and gaining acceptance of service-learning in aging projects is…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Resources, Experiential Learning, Gerontology
Stocking, S. Holly, Ed.; Bender, Eileen T., Ed.; Cookman, Claude H., Ed.; Peterson, J. Vincent, Ed.; Votaw, Robert B., Ed. – 1998
This book, a sequel to "Quick Hits," offers simple but successful strategies that award-winning teachers from Indiana University (IU) have found, through experience, to help promote learning in college classes. The original book grew out of the annual retreats of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an organization…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students
Trinity Coll., Burlington, VT. – 1994
The Community Service Scholars Program at Trinity College (Vermont) was established in fall 1989 to give single parents on welfare an opportunity to earn a four-year degree while volunteering at least 6 hours per week in community service projects. The participants receive financial support to cover most educational expenses. In the first year, 12…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Females
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Calderon, Jose; Farrell, Betty – Teaching Sociology, 1996
Describes an undergraduate sociology course where college students helped develop and teach multicultural lesson plans to high school students in a multiethnic district of Los Angeles (California). Discusses the origin and organization of the project and addresses some of its inherent structural and substantive challenges. (MJP)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, College Students, Conflict, Cultural Interrelationships
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