Sustaining a Movement

Over the last 20 years, the movement to reassert the civic mission of higher education has witnessed several important changes. In the early 1980s, a deep concern about the "me" generation sparked major efforts to promote college student volunteer community service. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, co-curricular community service was no longer seen as sufficient to support college student civic education, so major emphasis was put on driving service into the curriculum (service-learning) and involving faculty. (author)