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Download full textScherer, 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
Direct linkStewart, Pearl – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
In early 2010, Stig Lanesskog, associate dean for the MBA program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, challenged a group of his students to venture beyond classroom polemics and into the lives of people in need. Lanesskog took them to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, a culturally rich and economically devastated area with…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, High School Students, Dropout Prevention, Service Learning
Peer reviewedWilcox, Herbert S.; Waagbo, Jean M. – Community College Journal, 2001
Reports on the Community College of Baltimore County's (Maryland) service learning program for diversity education, which is unique to American community colleges. States that students and faculty members spent two weeks in Belize, establishing a summer camp program for children to develop English skills. Asserts that volunteers benefited from the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Education, Outreach Programs, Service Learning
Roberts, George B. – Independent School, 1981
Student volunteerism can include direct service, research and community education, and advocacy service. Alert observation and informed questioning are at the heart of learning from nonclassroom experience. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Program Design, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship
Wisconsin Public Television, Madison. – 1996
When community members volunteer for young people, they forge pathways of knowledge and compassion, and gain a better understanding of the mission and challenges of the schools. Youth service-learning programs that give high school and middle school students the chance to work with younger students or on community projects also leave lasting…
Descriptors: Guides, Outreach Programs, Program Development, Resource Materials
Zlotkowski, Edward, Ed. – 1998
The 11 chapters in this book describe successful innovative programs of service learning at the undergraduate level. Emphasis is on how different kinds of institutions, facing different internal and external circumstances, have made service-learning an institutional asset. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: A New Model of Excellence" (Edward…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Diversity (Institutional)
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of University Partnerships. – 1995
This publication highlights the work of institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities throughout the United States which, are responding to the responsibilities and possibilities of their educational and social missions by mobilizing their resources in ways that benefit their surrounding communities as well as themselves,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Educational Research, Higher Education
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of University Partnerships. – 1999
This publication highlights the work of institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities throughout the United States which are responding to the responsibilities and possibilities of their educational and social missions by mobilizing their collective resources in ways that benefit both the institutions and the communities. In…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Educational Research, Higher Education
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of University Partnerships. – 1996
This publication highlights the work of institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities throughout the United States. These institutions are responding to the responsibilities and possibilities of their educational and social missions by mobilizing their resources in ways that benefit the institutions and the communities,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Educational Research, Higher Education
Adler-Kassner, Linda, Ed.; Crooks, Robert, Ed.; Watters, Ann, Ed. – 1997
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays highlight some of the benefits and problems of service-learning in the college composition curriculum and present further areas for study. Following the Introduction, "Service-Learning and Composition at the Crossroads," by…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Services, Democracy, Higher Education
Simonelli, Richard – Winds of Change, 1996
For 14 years, Mountain Outreach, a program at Cumberland College (Williamsburg, Kentucky), has enabled college students to participate in community service projects. Recently, 35 students traveled to New Mexico to build a house for a Navajo elder who was unable to obtain adequate housing. Participants discuss their learning experiences and their…
Descriptors: College Students, Construction (Process), Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning
James-Deramo, Michele – 1994
Commitment to the improvement of the social order underlies and challenges the kind of educational program that Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, strives to offer its students. Between 63 and 73 percent of traditionally-aged seniors at Saint Joseph's indicated that they participated in some form of community service during…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Programs, Community Programs
Thomas, Nancy L. – 1998
This paper considers how colleges and universities can best fulfill the commitment of service to external communities, broadly defined to include local, national, and international concerns. Data come from interviews with key institutional representatives. The first section of the paper offers specific examples of how various colleges and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, College Faculty, College Role, College Students
