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Download full textCummins, Shannon; Ritzman, Mitzi J.; Benenson, Jodi; Tocaimaza-Hatch, Cecilia; Weare, Andrea M. M. – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
The adoption of service and community-based learning can be a challenge across college campuses. Some units or departments might embrace the approach, while others believe it cannot be done in their discipline. Despite being shown to offer benefits for learning and retention, recruiting faculty participation in service and community-based learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Fellowships, College Faculty
Direct linkElaine Ward; Eleanor T. Shonkoff; Cynthia Carlson; Christopher Stuetzle – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Merrimack College is a midsized Catholic Augustinian College pursuing its historical service-based commitments while shifting priorities toward research. With limited time and resources, these two aims can create tension at institutional and faculty levels. This single institutional case study shares the work of faculty and College leadership to…
Descriptors: Food, Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty
Watson-Thompson, Jomella – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
For most colleges and universities, community-engaged scholarship (CES) is a value that supports the public mission of academic institutions. However, shifting CES from a core value to a guiding principle requires demonstrable support and structural modifications to academic practices and policies. Through this reflective paper, I will propose…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Community Development, Educational Policy, Institutional Mission
Getto, Guiseppe; McCunney, Dennis – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
Institutions are increasingly being called upon to collect large amounts of data to demonstrate community impact. At institutions with strong and wide-reaching public engagement/service missions, this expectation is even greater--both for quality improvement and for demonstrating regional transformation. Despite these expectations, the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Incentives, School Culture, Educational Quality
Foster, Kevin; Jelen, Jonathan; Scott, Anasa – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
The authors provide a case study of their own experience teaching Environmental Entrepreneurship. For the past six years, they have been teaching about sustainability through social entrepreneurship in an interdisciplinary partnership with faculty in management, engineering, and earth science. The authors have developed a course in Environmental…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Earth Science, Entrepreneurship, Case Studies
Pelco, Lynn E.; Wood, Mark D.; Aspaas, Helen Ruth; Crawford, Edward R. – Metropolitan Universities, 2010
The authors contend that service-learning courses at urban universities can and should play a vital role in the greening of higher education and the promotion of sustainable urban environments. They describe one model outreach program that provides continuing education for middle school teaches and several undergraduate-level courses from…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Research Universities, Outreach Programs, Continuing Education
