Many U.S. universities are located in older, inner-city communities, where problems such as blighted buildings, abandoned spaces, and crime can make the areas unattractive to prospective students and ...

College students are known to be strapped for time. A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed found the No. 1 stressor in students’ lives is balancing academics with personal, family or ...

BETTY MEDINA LICHTENSTEIN used to dread the beginning of the school year, when students from colleges and universities around Holyoke, Mass., would descend on her tiny community organization, Enlace ...

Service learning goes beyond volunteering or fundraising. It has explicit learning objectives and involves real-world skills and critical analysis. As service learning has taken root in schools and ...

Requiring students to take part in community service to graduate from high school can actually reduce their later volunteering, new research suggests. Maryland’s statewide requirement that all ...

Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...

The Commitment to Service Awards (CTSA) encourage students to engage in community service further impacting their Brandeis experience while addressing community needs. Service will be used as a means ...

Service Learning & Impact in Community Engagement is proud to partner with the Boulder Municipal Court to serve as a resource for CU students who are sanctioned to complete court-mandated volunteer ...

Overlooking the car exhaust and honking horns of the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Chinatown section of Boston, small garden plots with pear trees, radishes, and cucumbers are sprouting on the roof of ...

Service learning (independently or in conjunction with massive community redevopments) appears to be establishing a solid footing for itself. Whether its long-term future is as a niche component of ...

Through the PWR’s Writing Initiative for Service and Engagement (WISE), founded in 2008, the program has integrated community-engaged writing throughout its lower- and upper-division courses. Students ...