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Article: Connecting the classroom and the community; service-learning programs allow students to apply real-world experience with classroom study. (Service Learning)(Cover Story).
- Article from:
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 25, 2002
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The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningful and give back to their communities. But for the past decade, a growing number of institutions of higher education have been doing their part in developing civic-minded citizens through service-learning programs that allow students to earn credit for performing community service.
More institutions have bolstered their service-learning efforts by joining Campus Compact, a coalition of more than 800 public and private two- and four-year colleges and universities. The coalition promotes community service to develop students' citizenship skills and values and to ...