Title: The engaged campus : certificates, minors and majors as the new community engagement /
Authors: Butin, Dan W.; Seider, Scott.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Community and college United States.; Service learning United States; Education, Higher Curricula United States; Education, Higher Aims and objectives United States; EDUCATION / General.; EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives.; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions.; Community and college; Education, Higher Aims and objectives; Education, Higher Curricula; Service learning; EDUCATION Higher.
Abstract: "There are by now over fifty academic programs - majors, minors and certificate programs- focused on community engagement at institutions of higher education across the United States, with dozens more in development. This volume offers a set of emerging best practices and an articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding programs in community engagement at their respective institutions"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction: when engagement is not enough--building the next generation of the engaged campus / Dan W. Butin -- Theory matters: articulating a theoretical framework for civic engagement / Tracey Burke, Tara Palmer Smith, and Diane Hirshberg -- Creating the character, culture, and craft of engagement / Sandra L. Enos -- Negotiating the boundary between the academy and the community / Hollyce (Sherry) Giles -- Contending with political and cultural campus challenges / Arthur S. Keene and John Reiff -- Process, content, and community building / Keith Morton -- The politics of engagement / Mary Beth Pudup -- Measuring the impact of community service learning / Scott Seider and Sarah Novick -- Building in place / Talmage A. Stanley -- A new Hull House?: the monumental challenge of service-learning and community engagement / Peter Levine -- Discipling higher education for democratic community engagement / Ariane Hoy, Mathew Johnson, and Robert Hackett -- De Tocqueville rediscovered: community-based civic engagement / Elizabeth L. Hollander.