In 1974, Duke offered its first service-learning course. Since then, those individual service-learning courses have expanded into Duke Service-Learning, an initiative supporting 80 separate courses ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The Tech Troopers program at Miami's College ...

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 ...

As communities across the country prepare for the upcoming school year, there is cause for long-awaited optimism. Many students will be returning to the classroom with different kinds of skills and ...

THOMASVILLE – At Thomas County Central High School, there is a consistent drive to foster enthusiasm for and not apathy toward “service before self” within its students. “This is not always a popular ...

Boston College offers opportunities for real-life, community-based learning experiences both at home and abroad. The VSLC offers programs and supports both student and faculty/staff initiatives that ...

We report on the service-learning component of a Spanish-language Saturday school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for elementary-aged Spanish-language heritage learners and also examine the newly forming ...

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 ...

As a pregnant teenager and school dropout, Isis Martinez could have abandoned educational hope and purpose. Instead, she found a school designed to make education come alive for her. She learned ...

Surrounded by racks and cases of canned goods and other foodstuffs, Olivia Martel, community programs coordinator in Princeton’s Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, efficiently grabbed cans of ...

For students interested in pursuing careers related to community engagement and service (or for students exploring their options), there are innumerable city-wide, state-wide, nation-wide, and ...