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Mathew Hayden Gendle; Amanda S. Tapler – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2024
As community-based global learning (CBGL) programs become more common on college/university campuses and utilize the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to guide programmatic outcomes, open-access evaluation instruments that both benchmark and effectively measure programmatic enhancements over time are needed. The 147-item Community Engagement and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Involvement, Global Approach, School Community Programs
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Zimmerman, Emily B.; Haley, Amber; Creighton, Gwen Corley; Bea, Chanel; Miles, Chimere; Robles, Andrea; Cook, Sarah; Aroche, Alicia – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019
Each community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership may incur "ripple effects" -- impacts that happen outside the scope of planned projects. We used brainstorming and interviewing to create a roadmap that incorporated input from nine CBPR participants and five community/academic partners to retrospectively assess the ripple…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Participatory Research, Urban Areas, Urban Universities
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Wright, Catherine; Keel, Melanie; Fleurizard, Tyrone – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2017
An important future direction for service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) is to collaborate with the sustainability in higher education (SHE) movement. SHE is a diverse, transdisciplinary area of inquiry and practice that seeks to help lead efforts to create a "thriving, equitable and ecologically healthy world." When SLCE…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Service Learning, Outreach Programs
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Morton, Keith; Bergbauer, Samantha – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2015
This paper describes an eight-year service-learning experiment that created four distinct spaces in which campus and community members meet, reflect, and act together. This work explores the tensions between traditional and critical service-learning, and points to the importance of building relationships with members of local communities and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experimental Programs, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
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Vernon, Andrea; Ward, Kelly – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1999
Studied community perceptions of students and faculty involved in service learning and campus outreach activities through a survey of 65 directors of community service programs in which students participated and followup interviews with 30 agency personnel. Findings suggest that campuses and communities generally enjoy positive relationships, but…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Community Programs, Higher Education
Miron, Devi; Moely, Barbara E. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2006
Supervisors from 40 community agencies working with a university-based service-learning program were interviewed regarding the extent of their input in service-learning program planning and implementation "(Agency Voice), Interpersonal Relations" with service-learning students, "Perceived Benefit" of the service-learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Public Agencies, Program Development, Program Implementation
Sandy, Marie; Holland, Barbara A. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2006
This qualitative study includes focus group research involving 99 experienced community partners across eight California communities using community-based research techniques to capture community voices about their service-learning partnerships with different colleges and universities. Partners commented on their perspectives regarding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Service Learning, Learning Experience
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Coyle, Edward J.; Jamieson, Leah H.; Sommers, Larry S. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1997
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) was created by Purdue University (Indiana) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering to broaden the education of engineering students by the use of an extended service-learning experience integrated into the engineering curriculum. EPICS provides local community service organizations with…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Outreach Programs
Basinger, Nancy; Bartholomew, Keith – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2006
This article applies theories of giving from philanthropic studies to enhance understanding of service-learning relationships between students and community partners. Focusing on the participation motivations, outcome expectations, and satisfaction levels of community partners who have recently completed work with service-learning students, the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Nonprofit Organizations, College Students, Partnerships in Education