The literature on student development cautions that social responsibility attitudes may stagnate or decline as students proceed through college. Given the importance of students' future professional obligations to society, identifying ways to reverse this trend is crucial. In turn, an important aim of this study, situated at a large public…

Colleges and universities are increasingly under pressure to prepare students for professional success after graduation, and, at the same time, are facing calls to enhance student civic learning and to contribute to their local communities. High-impact practices have been embraced as pedagogical approaches to address these goals. In particular,…

Service-Learning is a form of experiential learning where faculty integrate a service or community engagement component into academic coursework. Supported by a growing body of literature documenting the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students as a high-impact practice in the United States, the scholarship and practice of…

This dissertation uses a multi-case study approach to investigate teachers' use of computer science (CS) tools and pedagogical approaches in the classroom following their participation in a computer science integration professional development (PD) program. Seven teacher participants took part in a weeklong PD program and received follow up…

Latinx students face some of the country's lowest persistence and graduation rates (Green & Wright, 2017). Previous research affirms the need to develop intentional student support programs inclusive of the characteristics, identities, strengths, and unique needs of underrepresented student populations, including Latinx students, to improve…

Experiential learning in the field is central to the training of many helping professionals, and field education is the signature pedagogy for social work. Service-learning offers another opportunity for graduate students in the helping professions to get hands on training. Volunteering would also offer a hands-on learning experience but appears…

Integrating community-based learning (CBL) into graduate education has gained attention in higher education during the past decade because CBL allows students to inculcate professional values and ethics, situate academic knowledge and understanding in contexts, and practice academic citizenship through serving communities with disciplinary…

The purpose of this study was to implement customer service training for resident assistants at a postsecondary institution. Implementation of the training intervention was in order to provide customer service training opportunities for resident assistants. Two research questions were posed: (a) Do resident assistants believe their performance has…

Clubs constitute a prominant co-curricular activity to prepare students for effective professional careers, yet the role of engineering clubs in students' professional formation is poorly understood. This qualitative, comparative case study investigated three student engineering clubs at a large American public university. The clubs included a…

This article employs the emerging theoretical framework of values-engaged assessment to develop a narrative analyzing recent efforts to expand and formalize opportunities for graduate students to participate in community-engaged teaching and research at UCLA. After establishing the historical and institutional background for a new graduate seminar…

In higher education, numerous experiential learning programs are offered to enhance students' learning, including international travel programs, immersion programs, internship programs, and service-learning programs. Although students participating in these programs are each higher education institution's number one stakeholders, rarely are they…

Using an interpretive epistemology to explore the perceived benefits of using co-creation as a pedagogic tool with undergraduate students, this research focuses on a collaborative project between some first year undergraduate Education Studies students, a university Senior Lecturer and an Education Coordinator from a regional social enterprise…

This article explores how love informed by thinking and feeling within the context of a unique and cutting edge study abroad professional development program in Concepción Chile for preservice teachers might serve as an antidote to the challenges that engaging in culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) present. The article draws upon rich qualitative…

The centrality of service learning in the development of students' professional practice has received worldwide attention. Exposure to appropriately designed service learning experience determines the acquisition of graduate attributes. This article addresses a study in which the key question was: What methods and strategies do students and their…

Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional and international partners. Through PACE, students work on mutually beneficial projects that both meet the partner's organizational goals and enable students to strengthen graduate capabilities…