Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service Learning(7 International Series in Outreach Scholarship)

Service learning, as defined by the editors of this book, is the generation of knowledge that is of benefit to the community as a whole. This seventh volume in the Outreach Scholarship book series contributes to the discussion of how service learning functions as a critical cornerstone of outreach scholarship. The sections and chapters of this book marshal evidence in support of the idea that undergraduate service learning, infused throughout the curriculum and coupled with outreach scholarship, is an integral means through which higher education can engage the people and institutions of communities in a manner that perpetuate civil society.

Table of Contents:
Section I Introduction.- 1. Promoting Civil Society through Service Learning: A View of the Issues.- 2. Service Learning: A History of Systems.- 3. Indicators of Engagement, Campus Compact.- Section II Colleges & University Perspectives.- 4. The Culture of Service at Alverno College.- 5. Civic Responsibility through Mutual Transformation of Town and Gown: Service Learning at Andrews University.- 6. A Great Labor: Developing Knowledge in Service to Others at Boston College.- 7. Historical Base, Evolution and Future Directions of Civic Engagement and Service Learning at Cornell University.- 8. Weaving a Web of Service: Academic and Civic Life at Florida State University.- 9. Service Learning at Fordham University.- 10. Equal to the Demands of Justice in the World, Georgetown University.- 11. Liberal Arts College Faculty Reflect on Service-Learning: Steps on a Transformative Journey, Goucher College.- 12. Service Learning at Kansas State University: Educating Citizens for the Future.- 13. History of Community Colleges, Los Angeles Community College District.- 14. Fulfilling Our Mission: Service-Learning at Miami-Dade Community College.- 15. Real-World, Practical Learning: Developing a Comprehensive Model in the Land-Grant Tradition, Michigan State University.- 16. Learning to Give: Incorporating the Practices of Leadership and Philanthropy in Civic Education at a Metropolitan University, Northern Kentucky University.- 17. Public Scholarship: Serving to Learn, Penn State University.- 18. Building Capacity for Civic Engagement at Portland State University: A Comprehensive Approach.- 19. EPICS: Serving the Community through Engineering Design Projects, Purdue University.- 20. International Service Learning, University of Colorado, Boulder.- 21. Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society through Service Learning, University of Colorado at Denver.- 22. Filling in the Moat around the Ivory Tower, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.- 23. University of Nebraska — Lincoln.- 24. Academically-Based Community Service and University-Assisted Community Schools as Complementary Approaches for Advancing, Learning, Teaching, Research, and Service: The University of Pennsylvania as a Case Study in Progress.- 25. Putting Passion in Action: Service Learning at Wheelock College.- Section III Community Perspectives.- 26. The Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund: Partnerships with Universities in the Contexts of Policy and Family Support.- 27. Academic Service Learning: Development for Synthesis and Synergy, Jumpstart and Tufts University.- 28. 4-H: An Adaptable Model for Youth Development and Service Learning.- 29. Search Institute’s Evolving Approach to Community-Based Human Development and the Role of Service Learning.