The Engaged Campus Certificates, Minors, and Majors as the New Community Engagement

by Butin, Dan W.; Seider, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780230338814
• ISBN10: 023033881X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Engaged Campusoffers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in community engagement at their respective institutions.

Author Biography

Dan W. Butin is an associate professor and founding dean of the school of education at Merrimack College. He is the author and editor of more than sixty academic publications, including the books Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education (2010), which won the 2010 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association, Service-Learning and Social Justice Education (2008), and Teaching Social Foundations of Education (2005).

Scott Seider is an assistant professor of education at Boston University where his research focuses on the civic and character development of adolescents. He is the author of Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless (2010) and more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Adolescent Research and the Journal of Research in Character Education and as a contributing editor of the Journal of College & Character.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Framing the Field--Dan W. Butin * PART I: BUILDING A PROGRAM * Building an Interdisciplinary, Career-Focused, Social Justice Minor at DePaul--Laurie Worrall & David Strain * Capacity Building for the Common Good at PSU--Masami Nishishiba & Kevin Kecskes, Portland State * Building in Place--Talmage Stanley * Striving for Faculty Buy-In: Umass’s Certificate Program in Public Service and Civic Engagement--Art Keene & John Reiff * PART II: GROWING A PROGRAM * Civic Engagement Growing Pains in Alaska--Tracey Burke, Diane Hirschberg, & Tara Smith * Creating the Culture, Character, and Craft of Engagement--Sandra Enos * Connecting Students to Community and Structures of Support--Helen Rosenberg & Debra Karp * PART III: CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME * We’re All Engaged Now: The Rise and (possible) Demise of Community Studies--Mary Beth Pudup * Negotiating the Boundary Between the Academy and Communities--Hollyce (Sherry) Giles * Taking on the “Problems” of Community Service Learning--Deborah Burke * PART IV: MEASURING SUCCESS * Service Learning and Challenges of Interpretation--Keith Morton * Down the Line: Measuring Long-Term Outcomes of a Community Engagement Program--Michael Bolz, Ann Feldman, & Diane Chin * PART V: CRITICAL ISSUES TO CONSIDER * Peter Levine, Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement * Elizabeth Minnich, American Association of Colleges & Universities * Elizabeth Hollander, Tufts University * Bobby Hackett & Ariane Hoy, Bonner Foundation * Afterword: Moving Forward--Scott Seider