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Download full textGarvin, Melissa C.; Acosta Lewis, Emily – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2022
Objectives: Current issues impact the number and type of service-learning courses (SLCs) offered across universities. Our research aims to address the barriers and offer solutions to implementing SLCs. Methods: Instructors (n = 117) in the California State University system, the largest in the United States, who taught SLCs in fall 2019 and spring…
Descriptors: Service Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty
Weisman, Merith – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2021
Due to wildfires in the fall of 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, Sonoma State University lost 50 service-learning courses and, as a result, almost 900 fewer students completed a service-learning course than in the previous year. During the summer of 2020, the Center for Community Engagement began developing service-learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Educational Change
The Third Mission of Universities on the African Continent: Conceptualisation and Operationalisation
Nabaho, Lazarus; Turyasingura, Wilberforce; Twinomuhwezi, Ivan; Nabukenya, Margaret – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2022
Objective: The purpose of the study was to explore the conceptualization of the third mission in African higher education and the activities that universities are required to engage in and/or are engaging in to fulfil the third role. Method: The interpretive lens underpinned the study. Data were collected from the documents of the African Union…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Mission, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Brand, Brittany D.; Brascia, Kara; Sass, Margaret – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2019
The popularity of service learning is increasing, especially at a time when college students want to make a greater impact in their communities. However, service learning has not been extensively assessed in courses based in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This article provides a case study of how incorporating service learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Outreach Programs, Active Learning, Natural Disasters
Zhu, Jiangang – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
China began its modern system of higher education with the establishment of the former Peking University in Beijing in 1898. The traditional Confucian philosophy of education has been replaced dramatically by modern western philosophy. However, since the communist party came to power in 1949, the philosophy of higher education has experienced many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Educational Practices
Plater, William M. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017
Higher education serves as an agent of social change that plays a significant role in the development of socially conscious and engaged students. The duty higher education has toward society, the role for-profit educational institutions play in enhancing the public good, and the prospect of making social change an element of these providers'…
Descriptors: Social Change, Civics, Higher Education, Private Colleges
