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SLCE Scholarship: Broadening the Who, the Where, and the What

Throughout these blog posts we use the term “practitioner-scholar” to refer to anyone who partners in SLCE with a spirit of inquiry; connects their practice, learning, and curiosity with others; and thereby advances knowledge and practice. “Practice” in SLCE includes…

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Registration is Open

Registration is now open for the Center for Engaged Learning Symposium on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher-Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study. The symposium, which will be held June 11-12, 2017, at Elon University features a keynote…

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Civic Learning

by Stephanie T. Stokamer & Patti H. Clayton Perhaps most fundamentally, the raison d’etre for service-learning and community engagement (SLCE)—the upshot of the range of answers to the “why SLCE” question explored in the second blog post—is civic learning. Consensus…

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“And the work continues…”: Studying Study Away

by Nina Namaste Summer Two of the Center’s 2015-2017 research seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher-Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study  offered participants the time, place, and space to reconvene after a year of data collection….