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Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová; Irene Culcasi; Milagros Ávila Olías; Aitor Arbaiza Valero – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
Service-learning (SL) is pivotal for institutionalizing university-- community engagement and achieving teaching and learning goals by addressing identified needs (Compare et al., 2023). This goal aligns with the European Commission's (2017) Agenda for Higher Education, prioritizing community engagement. SL in international collaboration offers…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Service Learning, Study Abroad
Scherer, Lisa L.; Graeve-Cunningham, Victoria M.; Trent, Sheridan B.; Weddington, Stephanie A.; Thurley, Adam R.; Prange, Kelly A.; Allen, Joseph A. – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The Volunteer Program Assessment at UNO (VPA-UNO), a faculty-led student group, partners with nonprofit and governmental agencies to provide free assessments and consultations to enhance volunteer engagement, organizational commitment and retention. Three recent initiatives are discussed representing an intentional effort of a metropolitan…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, College Students, Metropolitan Areas, Service Learning
Buschlen, Eric Lee; Reusch, Jonathan – Journal of College and Character, 2016
Service to others plays a key role in the development of one's worldview. To study this key role, authors examined a sample of 38 student narratives in three phases: before, during, and 45 days after they served at an alternative break site around the United States. Students kept a prompt-based journal inspired by the tenets of the social change…
Descriptors: Social Change, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Angle, Julie M.; Colston, Nicole M.; French, Donald P.; Gustafson, John E.; O'Hara, Steven E.; Shaw, Edward I. – Science Educator, 2016
With the economic competitiveness of the United States dependent on an adequate supply of high-quality workers in the STEM fields, President Obama outlined a broad agenda to reinvigorate our country's interest in STEM. Responding to this call, organizations such as the National Lab Network and the STEM Education Coalition began efforts to raise…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Development, Career Awareness, High School Students
Tout, Dan; Pancini, Geri; McCormack, Rob – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper presents findings from a 2010 evaluation of Victoria University's Student Rover program, an on-campus work-based learning program in which mobile student mentors are employed and deployed within the university's Learning Commons to provide "just-in-time" and "just-in-place" learning support to other students. Student…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Learner Engagement, College Students
Boneck, Robin; Barnes, Jeffrey N.; Stillman, Tyler F. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2014
The authors describe how Southern Utah University has integrated the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program as an experiential servicelearning activity for over a decade and a half. First, we describe the value of experiential servicelearning. Second, we detail the program, its oversight, its student…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, College Students, Volunteers
Leemen, Lee – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The study reported an assessment of a university-wide curriculum-based service learning program and, based on the assessment data, analyzed the impact of teachers' and supervisors' involvement on students' skill and affective learning outcomes. The study (n=750) showed that in general the students agreed that their participation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, College Faculty, Supervisors
Bailey, Andrew W.; Fernando, Irene K. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
"Voluntourism" refers to the use of "discretionary time and income to travel out of the sphere of regular activity to assist others in need" (McGehee & Santos, 2005, p. 760). These experiences have been shown to raise consciousness and increase interest in activism (McGehee, 2002; Wearing, 2001) and to build pro-social…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Social Values, Student Volunteers, Followup Studies
Peng, Wu-Der – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This randomized-controlled-trial aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-phone intervention system in preventing smoking relapse. The intervention was based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), incorporated with Motivational Interviewing strategies, and the Two-phase Model. One hundred and sixteen volunteer subjects were recruited from the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Smoking
Zhen, Li – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In this article, the author investigates college students' volunteer teaching in Western China. A series of investigations were conducted in Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. The results showed that teaching by volunteer college students played a positive role in the development of local education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Investigations, Student Teaching
Shipley, Robert H. – Journal of Counsulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The present study assessed the effects of a companion program on college student volunteers and mental patients. Overall, the effects of companionship were negative for students and patients, while questionnaire responses indicated positive feelings toward the overall program. Because of this discrepancy, caution should be exercised in introducing…
Descriptors: Attendants, Attitudes, College Students, Higher Education
Shaver, Judy C.; And Others – 1992
In an effort to help disadvantaged preschool children develop emergent literacy skills and improve their chances of future academic success, a cooperative project was implemented in 1991-92 by McNeese State University in Louisiana and a local Head Start agency to provide tutoring to Head Start children. University students enrolled in a teacher's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Development, College Students, Cooperative Programs

Miller, Kimberly D.; Schleien, Stuart J.; Rider, Cecilia; Hall, Crystal; Roche, Megan; Worsley, James – Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 2002
Examined the benefits of volunteerism for people with disabilities as well as their non-disabled peers and the agency in which they served. Participants were college students who were matched with adolescents from a local school for students with disabilities. After two semesters of volunteer work for a local museum, benefits were discussed and…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Disabilities, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness

Borman, Geoffrey; Rachuba, Laura; Hewes, Gina; Boulay, Matthew; Kaplan, Jody – ERS Spectrum, 2001
Examines the effectiveness of Teach Baltimore, a program (using trained college student volunteers) to prevent summer learning loss, for a group of 300 low-income, public elementary students, compared with 135 control students. Except for low-achieving kindergarteners, results show consistent, if statistically insignificant, positive effects for…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Intervention
Allison, Joyce – 1990
The report details the progress of the Price City (Utah) Library Literacy Project toward achievement of its 12 stated objectives: to (1) train 30 volunteer tutors; (2) match them with students; (3) develop a course at the College of Eastern Utah so college students can receive credit for tutoring adults in reading or English as a Second Language;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Budgets, College Credits, College School Cooperation
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