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This chapter discusses the various ways in which service-learning offices and activities are situated within the structure of higher education institutions.
The focus of this chapter is not on the theories, rubrics, or heuristics of institutionalizing service-learning, but rather on the practice of service-learning in institutions. The authors focus on practical insights from current organizational approaches to community-based learning with an eye toward the institutional dynamics and contemporary trends that assist the implementation of service-learning. The rationals is rooted in a collective understanding that engaged learning is central to the undergraduate experience today, and that institutions can adopt structural arrangements that facilitate sustainable service-learning programs. (authors)
