Service Learning and Civic Engagement: Pathway to Latino Immigrant Success through Servant Leadership

By utilizing a service learning approach, Central New Mexico Community College embarked on an initiative to prepare Latino students - who also happen to be parents - to enhance their community service and civic responsibility. The Central New Mexico Civic Engagement Leadership Institute in collaboration with the Albuquerque ENLACE Program prepared immigrant parents to serve their nuclear and extended communities through a service learning/leadership model. The article addresses leadership perspectives, service learning, servant leadership, the Civic Engagement Institute and the integration of these elements to help increase Latino parent community service and civic responsibility. (author)