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Wiley, Kimberly; Thomas, M. Blair; Skollar, Talia – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
Preconceived expectations for one's behavior drive how people interact with their communities. Messaging via pop culture is a common source for citizens to learn about one community engagement tool: compulsory volunteering. Compulsory volunteering, like court-ordered community service and school-based volunteering, provides an opportunity to learn…
Descriptors: Punishment, Misconceptions, Volunteers, Court Litigation
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Moely, Barbara E.; Ilustre, Vincent – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019
How is required public service during college related to later civic behavior? This article reports findings from a survey of 359 alumni, conducted two years after they completed their undergraduate studies at Tulane University. The alumni held positive views of the substantial public service requirement they had completed before graduating and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Study, Alumni, Required Courses
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Willard, Christina – Journal of Volunteer Administration, 1997
The Youth Volunteer Corps of Canada promotes a lifelong service ethic while developing job-related skills. It is successful because it makes community service interesting and age appropriate, it treats youth volunteers with respect, and it meets real community needs. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Public Service, Service Learning
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Noley, Sherry – New Directions for Higher Education, 1977
The work of the Commission on Voluntary Service and Action affords perspectives on the problems that agencies face in using student volunteers. Student attitudes, preparation, adjustment, and length of service are discussed. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internship Programs, Needs Assessment, Problems
Eberly, Donald J.; Gal, Reuven – Online Submission, 2006
"Service Without Guns"--by Donald J. Eberly and Reuven Gal with a guest chapter by Michael Sherraden--notes the many similarities between military service and civilian National Youth Service (NYS) and concludes that NYS can and should become as large and influential in the 21st Century as military service was in the 20th. The book…
Descriptors: Public Service, National Programs, Youth Programs, Service Learning
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Eckenfels, Edward J. – Academic Medicine, 1997
Argues against the criticism that medical students are self-centered moral relativists lacking a sense of social responsibility, illustrating this thesis with the Rush University (Illinois) community service program serving the poor and disadvantaged. Suggests that such community service experiences, given unconditionally to those in need, broaden…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Students, Professional Education
Macy, Jack E. – Campus Activities Programming, 1994
A model for developing a spirit of volunteerism and social responsibility among students on a college campus is outlined. The model incorporates five phases of student development that accompany community service participation. Suggestions are made for implementing such a model effectively within the student affairs function. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education, Models
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Rhoads, Robert A. – Journal of Higher Education, 1998
Explores ways in which college students' community service contributes to citizenship education. A qualitative study over six years, involving interviews, surveys, and observation of students, examined how a more caring sense of self may be enhanced through student involvement. Three major themes in student experiences are discussed: exploration…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1998
High school students who are involved in community service work are more likely to continue such community service after graduation. Highlights of a study using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Second Follow-up (1992) and Third Follow-up (1994), include the following: (1) in 1994, 43 percent of 1992 high school seniors…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Schools, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Luce, Janet, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This annotated bibliography of 245 items published from 1970 through 1987 is intended to guide newcomers toward and remind service-learning veterans of key literature in the field. Sections of the bibliography include definitions and history, rationales, service-learning in higher education and in secondary education, theoretical and philosophical…
Descriptors: Community Services, Guidelines, Higher Education, Literature
Sandler, Linda; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1993
Arizona's Serve-America Project is a K-12 community service program funded by the National and Community Service Act of 1990. Through formal school/community agency and youth organization/community agency partnerships, the project is designed to: (1) encourage school-age and out-of-school youth to volunteer their services; (2) increase the number…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Services, Dropout Programs
Batenburg, Mark P. – 1995
Agency-school collaborations are examined from the point of view of the agency. The data for the analysis were gathered through interviews with staff people from six different community-based organizations in California, all of whom have experience working with schools and youth volunteers. The study found that there often are culture clashes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, High School Students
Clay, Rebecca – 1992
This idea book comes from projects undertaken by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) chapters and state and local retired teachers associations around the United States. The projects described range from simple acts performed by one volunteer to elaborate schemes funded by corporations, from involvement in existing programs to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education
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Levine, Myron A. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1994
Outlines one Albion College (Michigan) faculty member's suggestions for encouraging faculty involvement in service-learning, drawing on his personal journey from traditional pedagogy to one that embraces service-learning. Guidelines focus on providing support and opportunity for faculty to make connections between community service and scholarship…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship Education, College Faculty, Course Descriptions
Cooper, Jay – Campus Activities Programming, 1993
Service learning programs, which combine practical volunteer community service experience with traditional academic study, are cost effective and meaningful alternatives to college activities programing. Such programs increase learning options, are good public relations, can involve faculty and departments, and attract a wider variety of students…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Extracurricular Activities
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