Higher Education Service-Learning Sourcebook

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Service learning in higher education, or as some have called it, community service learning, combines communiy service and academic study so that each strengthens the other. College administrators, faculty, students, and volunteer coordinators involved in this increasingly popular form of higher education will find in [OXSLS] a valuably comprehensive new resource, which includes (1) a directory of information on service learning programs and services at 325 colleges and universities; (2) an authoritative guide to the issues and concepts related to service learning; (3) a resource guide to the most important information found in books, journals, Web sites, and Internet discussion groups; (4) a directory of service-learning organizations, conferences, institutes and training opportunities; and (5) an inventory of awards, scholarships, fellowships, internships and grants in the field.

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ROBIN J. CREWS is visiting associate professor and acting director of the Peace Studies Program and special assistant to the academic dean at Goucher College.