Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities: Engaging Undergraduates for Social Justice, Social Change and Responsible Citizenship

This book outlines how undergraduate students engage with civic and community projects and how this can be encouraged by their universities. It also explores how universities can build on this involvement and develop undergraduates' civic and democratic capacities, including programmatic strategies and conceptual frameworks for understanding the students' activities. As higher education across the globe experiences increasing student numbers it is important to understand how students engage with civic and community service.

Author: Krista M. Soria
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/17/2016
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.07w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137553119

About the Author
Krista M. Soria works in the Office of Institutional Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. She is interested in researching high-impact practices that promote undergraduates' development, the experiences of first-generation and working-class students, and programmatic efforts to enhance students' leadership, civic responsibility, and engagement in social change.
Tania D. Mitchell is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Her teaching and research focuses on service-learning as a critical pedagogy to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development, race and racism, and community practice.