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Jim Rost; Anita Carol Swayze; Janet McCormick – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
A large American university in the southeastern United States has infused experiential learning into academic courses to create a national model that is both sustainable and replicable. The EXL Scholars Program has consistently shown growth and significant positive outcomes by providing students with opportunities for hands-on experiences in their…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Experiential Learning, Undergraduate Students, Service Learning
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Bringle, Robert G.; Wall, Elizabeth – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
The civic-minded graduate (CMG) construct provides a set of common civic learning objectives that can guide the design, implementation, and assessment of curricular and cocurricular civic engagement programs. This research examined components posited to be part of the CMG construct and found correlations between identity as a student and CMG,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Educational Objectives, Volunteers
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Lake, Danielle; Lowen, Aaron; Moretto, Kristin; Youker, Brandon W. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2021
This study examines the post-course impact of community-based learning (CBL) on undergraduate students enrolled in a CBL course from one of four undergraduate degree programs at a large, public university. Mixed methods analysis of survey and interview data show that CBL experiences supported holistic development for students, including in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Development
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Huyser, Mackenzi; DeGraaf, Donald; Burwell, Rebecca – Journal of College and Character, 2022
This article explores how the formation of civic-minded college graduates has shifted in recent decades. It presents preliminary research from a group of undergraduate college students engaged in an urban, experiential education program and explores opportunities for utilizing academic-based internships in developing civic-minded graduates.
Descriptors: College Graduates, Citizenship Education, Undergraduate Students, Experiential Learning
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C. Andrew Lafond; Kristin Wentzel – Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 2021
This chapter describes a service learning (SL) project implemented in an upper-level undergraduate "Cost Accounting" course to enhance the coverage of costing concepts. Employing a variation of Lafond, Leauby, and Wentzel (2017) SL task, students actively gather cost data for a business venture by preparing peanut butter and jelly…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Accounting, Undergraduate Study, Courses
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Murray, Jeffrey W. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Since its inception in 2009, the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program (in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University) has evolved and expanded into an amalgamation of three distinct but overlapping elements: (i) teaching practicum, (ii) leadership seminar, and (iii) service learning experience. But only recently have…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Student Leadership, Seminars
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Al-Khasawneh, Ahmad; Hammad, Bashar K. – Education for Information, 2013
Service learning methodologies provide information systems students with the opportunity to create and implement systems in real-world, public service-oriented social contexts. This paper presents a case study of integrating a service learning project into an undergraduate Computer Information Systems course titled "Information Systems"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Civics, Citizen Participation
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Chenneville, Tiffany; Toler, Susan; Gaskin-Butler, Vicki T. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The purpose of this article is to describe the importance of, and recommendations for how best to promote, civic engagement among undergraduate psychology majors. In this article, we will describe how the goals of civic engagement are consistent with the specific curricular goals of undergraduate psychology programs. We also will (a) review the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Ethics
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2012
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
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Vega, Gina – Journal of Management Education, 2007
The urgent messages of good business include the importance of ethical management behaviors, focus on corporate citizenship, recognition of principled leadership, moral awareness, and participation in social change. This article describes the Service Learning Metaproject (a nested set of projects required of all students) and shows what students…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Change, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Bringle, Robert G.; Hatcher, Julie A.; McIntosh, Rachel E. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2006
Research on college students found limited support for Morton's (1995) hypothesis that students have a preference for one distinct type of service orientation (i.e., charity, project, social change). The findings did replicate previous findings that college students prefer the charity paradigm. A measure of integrity was developed and two…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Social Change, Integrity, Service Learning
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Polansky, Susan G. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
The integration of foreign language learning with service-learning has continued as a growing trend through the 1990s into the 21st century. Tutoring programs can offer unique opportunities for addressing the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning (1999). This article details one flexible curriculum-based model that promotes especially…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Undergraduate Students, Tutoring, National Standards