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Library Resources Filtered by Journal: "New Directions for Higher Education"

Total number of Library Resources: 26

Institutionalizing Community Engagement in Higher Education: The First Wave of Carnegie Classified Institutions (2009)

Leading scholars of engagement analyze data from the first wave of community-engaged institutions as classified by the Carnegie...
Carnegie's New Community Engagement Classification: Affirming Higher Education's Role in Community (2009)

In 2005, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) stirred the higher education world with the...

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Leading the Engaged Institution (2009)

Leadership is a duty of presidents, provosts, and others responsible for the well-being of a college or university. The...
Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship (2009)

Community-engaged colleges and universities are revising promotion and tenure policies to reward community-engaged scholarship...
Innovative Practices in Service-Learning and Curricular Engagement (2009)

This article summarizes institutional best practices in the assessment of service-learning.

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Issues in Benchmarking and Assessing Institutional Engagement (2009)

An assessment process provides the means to conduct a status check of a campus's overall level of community engagement. This...
Understanding and Enhancing the Opportunity of Community-Campus Partnerships (2009)

Despite the fact that universities and their various communities have much to offer and much to gain from partnering, the...
Engagement and Institutional Advancement (2009)

This chapter examines ways in which engaged institutions allocate internal resources to support engagement and how these...

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After the Engagement Classification: Using Organization Theory to Maximize Institutional Understandings (2009)

Engagement efforts can be well served by attending to all aspects of the structure, politics, culture, and human resources that...
Will It Last? Evidence of Institutionalization at Carnegie Classified Community Engagement Institutions (2009)

As community engagement emerges as a central philosophy and practice in higher education, the experiences with it provide a...
First Wave of Community-Engaged Institutions, (The) (2009)

This article explores the experiences, outcomes, and lessons learned from the first wave of Carnegie classified community-...
Organizational Learning in Higher Education (2005)

Organizations face a host of changes, such as shifting demographics, technology innovations, and increased competition. As the...
Community Service as Learning (2005)

This chapter uses the conceptual framework of a learning organization to make a case for how a theory might enrich...
Modeling Learning: The Role of Leaders (2005)

This article is about the Portland State University story, a reflection on change as a scholarly act within a learning...
Consortia and Institutional Partnerships for Community Development (2002)

Higher education consortia can be instrumental in developing community leaders to address social, economic, and environmental...
Developing and Implementing Service-Learning Programs (2001)

In this themed issue, authors explore successful service-learning programs in a variety of settings, from liberal arts colleges...
Why Service-Learning? (2001)

Before engaging in service-learning, professors will want to know what the impulses are behind service-learning, what research...
A Smart Start to Service-Learning (2001)

Creating a service-learning class need not be a daunting or protracted task. This chapter provides a simple seven-step model...
Service-Learning Is for Everybody (2001)

Service-learning is an effective pedagogy to help ensure success for all students, including individuals with disabilities. (...
Creating Your Reflection Map (2001)

Reflection exercises conducted before, during, and after service-learning projects can dramatically improve student learning. (...
The Internet in Service-Learning (2001)

As an inexpensive, relatively simple means for sharing information with the community, the Internet offers new possibilities...
A Comprehensive Model for Assessing Service-Learning and Community Partnerships (2001)

A comprehensive assessment model can measure the effects of service-learning on everyone around. (author)
The National Society for Experiential Education in Service-Learning (2001)

Organizations such as the National Society for Experiential Education provide educators with support for improving service-...
Advancing Service-Learning at Research Universities (2001)

Three strategies for overcoming the challenges of advancing and institutionalizing service-learning at research universities...
How Professors Can Promote Service-Learning in a Teaching Institution (2001)

By addressing systemic issues, faculty in teaching institutions can facilitate participation in and support for service-...