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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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We get the scripts for handling life's challenges from folklore. Trickster tales admonish us to fear the darkness and the unknown. If we speculate that the tales illuminate global citizenship, one truth is that as human beings we have shared experiences. To internationalize service-learning we must connect with this shared reality. Psychology's insistence on rigidly controlled methodologies is rooted in the assumption that only empirically...
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Over the last twenty years, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has pursued a comprehensive strategy to move the institution from isolation from its surroundings, to an active and enthusiastic engagement with its many community stakeholders. Thus, we began in the late 1980's with, among other initiatives, efforts to (1) recruit a student body that better responded to the educational needs -- and mirrored the demographics -- of this...
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At the turn of the century, Campus Compact launched the Raise Your Voice Campaign to educate students on how to become involved and to publicize what involved students were already doing. Entering college I knew I wanted to continue all the little things that I loved to do in the community as a kid. But when I became familiar with Campus Compact through my college volunteering, I realized how connected government policies were with my everyday...
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A glance at the history of higher education tells us that our founding institutions -- the likes of Harvard, William and Mary, University of Pennsylvania -- grew out of the conviction that American higher education must educate citizens to participate in American society -- its civic, political, and culture life. While our history provides something of a mandate for our institutions to take community engagement seriously, the question is how...
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Drawing on my personal experience of growing up in the Delta Region of Arkansas, an area characterized by high rates of poverty, racial segregation and poor schools, I will argue that quality education is the best vehicle for individual and collective progress. In addition, I will argue that in the new knowledge economy the U.S. must educate all people who have the ability to benefit irrespective of socio-economic status. Finally, I will put...
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This paper series seems especially significant this year, as Campus Compact celebrates an important milestone. The context has certainly changed over the decades since the founding of Campus Compact twenty years ago. For while Campus Compact has grown impressively to more than 950 member campuses with 31 state offices under the leadership of Elizabeth Hollander, there is also a sense that service-learning is at a crossroads. At least one...
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This article will explore the methods used by Kalamazoo College to combine study abroad with campus-based service-learning in an effort to foster in students the capacity to be "at home in the world." By this, we mean a sense that wherever they find themselves they can be at home and make a home because they respect difference, can view the world from multiple perspectives, can adapt to new situations, and have the ability to put...
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In today's rapidly changing world, the skills and sensibilities of "citizenship" are evolving along with technological and economic advance. Communication technologies enable communication across the globe at the speed of light. This reality means that ideas of democracy, of theocracy, of compassion, of hate -- all can find instant audiences. This profound freedom and speed of information makes the demands of contemporary citizenship...
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Minnesota has significant achievement and prosperity gaps between the aging majority population and the rapidly growing, younger communities. Over 25% of the next generation will be from minority communities, but these groups are under-represented in post-secondary education. Many northern urban regions face comparable dilemmas. Blue-ribbon commissions agree that the 21st-century economy requires students to complete at least 14 years of...
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Diversity is three-dimensional: 1). Structural Diversity is characterized by compliance-oriented, quota-driven Affirmative Action initiatives to recruit and retain underrepresented populations, 2). Multicultural Diversity is identified by activities creating awareness of and respect for human differences by infusing cultural, gender or other group issues into our institutions; and now 3.) Context Diversity is characterized by reframing academic...
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Higher education faces a severe pedagogical and epistemological predicament. How do we redefine access as active participation that incorporates the visions and voices of all learners? How do we redefine success as responsive knowledge acquisition and utilization in building democratic bridges between individuals and groups? And, how do we create fully inclusive learning environments that facilitate community-centered critical consciousness?...
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In 1807, nearly 200 years ago, William Wordsworth wrote, "The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." Has much changed in the last 200 years? For many, the answer would be, "not much!" In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman makes the point that "In the future, globalization is going to be increasingly driven by the individuals who understand the flat world, adapt...
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Educational access and success are typically framed as 'getting into' and 'staying in' college, getting good grades at graduating. When one is facing significant barriers to accessing and completing a college education, framing access and success in this way is necessary and right. But if one stops there, most of us would agree that we are not serving the interests of students as individuals or as part of a collective public. In my essay I would...
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Accountability and articulation of student's capability to perform in a knowledge-based, technology driven global society has increased. The stakes are constantly rising as surveys predict that by 2050, there will be 50% minorities in the workforce, and many will not have a college degree. My essay will discuss various issues that impact academic success such as shared vision and inclusiveness; civic- engagement, cultural perspectives, and...
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The urgent need to dramatically increase the proportion of college graduates students who are prepared for lifetimes of active global citizenship. A key challenge: reaching students who are not taking courses in international relations or studying abroad (brief) I propose to focus on: Steps that U.S. colleges and universities can take (and are taking) to accelerate and strengthen education for lifetimes of active global citizenship *...
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I propose in this essay to explore, through the lens of a community partner, the connection between effective community campus partnerships, engaged practices, and education in civic engagement. I believe there is a direct correlation between the student service-learning projects and student learning engagement. It is my view that the next phase of growth toward embedding engagement can receive a boost from strong community partnerships. I will...
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As democracy advances down a bumpy road globally, globalization is moving at lightning speed. Higher educational systems in the U.S. and abroad need to play a central role in educating students to assess the pluses and minuses of globalization for their communities and their world, and vote accordingly. Strong democracy in the world will need globally engaged colleges and universities. [author]
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We need to develop "A New Deal" for the 21st century, and it starts by renewing our commitment to provide a high-quality higher education to each and every young person who earns it, regardless of their family's financial position. This "New Deal" would include the following three steps: First, colleges and universities of all types should follow the lead set by the likes of Tony Marx at Amherst College and identify...
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Boyer (1997) stated "the most fundamental challenge confronting American higher learning is to move from fragmentation to coherence. He spoke of connection, "connections between teaching and research, connections between students, faculty, and staff, connections across the disciplines, and connections from the campus to the larger world." Like the pause between symphonic movements, higher education appears to be signaling a...
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Exposure to a world outside one's own, whether cultural, national, intellectual, etc, is eye-opening and thought-provoking for the traveler. In order to ensure that global circumstances retain local significance and likewise that new realizations become useful, the traveler must return home with a redefined conception of her or his citizenship. These awakenings are held to account through an integration or shift in understanding of her or his...
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Globalization is not a catch phrase. It is a reality. We have been and will increasingly interact in our daily lives with people from different places and cultures. If we fail to prepare students to communicate, cooperate and compete with our fellow global citizens, we will suffer as individuals and a nation. We must resist the empty call to isolationism which can only result in ignorance and stagnation. If we are to compete in today's world we...
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The public's engagement in its democracy can succeed and survive, to borrow a phrase from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, "only when it is rooted in the lives and expectations of its citizens, and is continually reinvigorated in each generation." Higher education has at least two roles to play that are rooted in scholarship and in an instrumental reading of the Constitutional obligation to foster knowledge as a keystone of democratic...
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This essay addresses Tulane University's post-Katrina renewal and its conscious and deliberate decision to serve as a model for embedded engagement in a major research university. Although this large initiative is still in its infancy, Tulane University has a long tradition of supporting and nurturing experiential and service learning initiatives. For its future, however, it has placed a broadly-defined concept of engagement and civic...
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Educating students about public engagement has largely focused on undergraduates. We propose to focus now on graduate students. This is challenging, because graduate students concentrate on their disciplinary studies and research. However, there are reasons to pursue the challenge. Graduate students want to know more about the public aspects of their disciplines. Some research cannot be done well without collaboration with community partners....
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This essay will explore the various factors that influence faculty in choosing to teach service-learning courses. While colleges and universities continue to make strides toward institutionalizing service-learning and other forms of civic engagement, there is a pre-requisite step of becoming aware of what motivates faculty to participate in service-learning. Research has been conducted to identify demographic factors that may predict faculty...
