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The role of service in higher education
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Astin this paper gave an update on what the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA is learning about volunteerism and community service on campus, including what promotes participation, who benefits, and how participation affects leadership development.Abstract:
Alexander Astin gives an update on what the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA is learning about volunteerism and community service on campus. What promotes participation? Who benefits? How does participation affect leadership development?read more
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Community Service in Higher Education: A Look at the Nation's Faculty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the level of involvement in and commitment to community service among higher education faculty and found that women, non-White, and lower-ranking faculty tend to be the most involved.
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Undergraduate Time Use and Academic Outcomes: Results from the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey 2006:
Steven Brint,Allison M. Cantwell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the significance of academic study time on undergraduate students' academic performance was established, however, the effects of other uses of time are in disportable in dispu...
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Asking the Community: A Case Study of Community Partner Perspectives.
TL;DR: The authors conducted interviews with 40 representatives from 12 community-based organizations working with the Steans Center for Community-based Service-Learning at DePaul University in Chicago and found that the motivations for these organizations to partner with DePaul tend to differ from the motivations to continue the partnership.
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Meanings of Education for University Students: Academic Motivation and Personal Values as Predictors
TL;DR: This paper conducted two studies to determine the meanings that undergraduate students ascribe to their education and how these meanings relate to relevant psychological constructs: academic motivation and values, and 10 meanings emerged: career preparation, independence, finding direction for the future, learning, self-development, taking the next step, making social connections, changing the world, stress and escape.
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An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America
TL;DR: Barber as mentioned in this paper argues that both sides of the current debate: elistist, anti-democratic conservatives and the radical champions of Political Correctness have missed the point and that education should instil in students a commitment to community service, the literacy to live in a civil society, the competence to participate in democratic communities, the ability to think critically and deliberately in a pluralistic world, and empathy to help them understand their fellow citizens.