Raising Standards in Community Service Learning

Abstract

Increasingly, students are coming to college with a range of experience in community service. What does this experience look like? What is its effect on students? The author addresses these questions and argues that campuses must draw on this previous experience to build better, more ambitious service learning programs.

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