Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education

Abstract

About the Editor. Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: A New Model of Excellence. 2. On the Shoulders of Giants: Building on a Tradition of Experimental Education at Augsburg College. 3. Curriculum and Community Connection: The Center for Service-Learning at Bates College. 4. Redrawing the Bottom Line: The Bentley Service-Learning Project. 5. Community College and Service-Learning: A Natural at Brevard Community College. 6. Rediscovering our Heritage: Community Service and the Historically Black University. 7. Communal Participatory Action Research & Strategic Academically Based Community Service: The Work of Penn's Center for Community Partnerships. 8. Comprehensive Design of Community Service: New Understanding, Options, and Vitality in Student Learning at Portland State University. 9. Making a Major Commitment: Public and Community Service at Providence College. 10. Santa Clara University's Eastside Project: A Pilgrimage Toward our own Humanity. 11. We Make the Road by Walking: Building Service-Learning in and out of the Curriculum at the University of Utah.