Reports, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Here's a partial list of useful research, reports, and news related to service-learning and civic engagement in Kansas higher education that are worth reading. A much more complete list of resources can be found at the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse or on the national Campus Compact Resources website.
KsCC has arranged these reports and articles by category. Please select from the following or scroll down for the complete list.
Access, Retention, and Success
Faith, Religion, and Service-Learning
Federal Community Service Work Study
General Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
National Service (AmeriCorps, VISTA, etc.)
Access, Retention, and Success
Assessment
In Search of Evidence - Measuring Community Engagement and Higher Education
Eidos, October 2006
Campus-Community Partnerships
Community Colleges
Democratic Participation
New Scholars, New Scholarship: Political Understanding and Engagement
Debora Liddell, University of Iowa
Journal of College and Character, January 2006
Economic Development
Higher Education, Community Service, and Local Development
Victor A. Arredondo and Mario Fernández de la Garza
Conference on Community Engagement in Higher Education, September 3, 2006
Faith, Religion, and Service-Learning
Federal Community Service Work Study
General Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
New Times Demand New
Scholarship: Research Universities and Civic Engagement
November 2006
How Campuses Can Create Engaged Citizens: The Student Way
Stephanie Raill, Macalester College, and Elizabeth Hollander
Journal of College and Character, January 2006
Maximizing the Long-term Sustainability of Service-Learning: Lessons from a Study of Early Adopters
Amanda L. Vogel,
Sarena Seifer, &
Kevin Days
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2010
Global Service-Learning
Global Citizenship: Extending Students' Knowledge and Action to the Global Context
Jenny J. Lee, University of Arizona
Journal of College and Character, January 2006
Health and Aging
Mentoring
National Service (AmeriCorps, VISTA, etc.)
Volunteers use MLK Day to help: Students take time to serve community
Iowa City Press-Citizen, January 15, 2007
Promotion and Tenure
Community service in higher education: A look at the nation's faculty.
Anthony
Antonio, Helen Astin, and Christine Cress
The Review of Higher Education, 23(4). 373-397. 2000
Factors that motivate and deter faculty use of service-learning
Elisa Abes, Golden Jackson, & SusanJones
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning,2002
Promotion and Tenure Policies that Explicitly Recognize Community-Engaged Scholarship
Campus Community Partnerships for Health
Scholarship in public: Knowledge creation and tenure policy in the engaged university
Julie Ellison & Timothy Eatman
Imagining America, 2008
Encouraging multiple forms of scholarship in faculty reward systems: Have academic cultures really changed?
Kerry Ann O'Meara
New Directions for Institutional Research, Spring 2006
What determines faculty-engaged scholarship?
Lori Vogelgesang, Nida Denson, & Uma Jayakumar
The Review of Higher Education, 2010
Rural Engagement
Building Communities: How Rural Community Colleges
Develop their Communities and the People who Live in Them
Michael T. Miller and Courtney C. Tuttle
Community College Journal of Research and Practice, February 2007
Volunteerism
Volunteering in America: 2007 State Trends and Rankings in Civic Life
Corporation for National and Community Service, April 16, 2006
The Estimated Dollar Value of Volunteer Time is $18.77 per Hour for 2006
Independent Sector, April 2, 2007
Volunteer Growth in America: A Review of Trends Since 1974
CNCS Office of Research and Policy Development and IU School
of Public & Environmental Affairs, December 18, 2006
Volunteering Grows in Popularity Among College Students, Study Says
Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2006
College Volunteerism Up Sharply, Study Finds
Associated Press, October 17, 2006
Student Volunteering Is Worth Billions of Dollars a Year, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2005
Generation Y Gets Involved
USA Today, October 23, 2006
