by Lori E. Kniffin, Patti H. Clayton, & Sarah E. Stanlick In an earlier blog post, we introduced the Service-Learning and Community Engagement Future Directions Project (SLCE-FDP). We invited you to join this learning community and contribute your own thinking in…

Compiled by Patti H. Clayton We are co-educators. That is not our organization’s bottom line, but that’s what we do. [SLCE community partner] This blog post will be a bit different than the others in this series, less an essay and…

by Patti H. Clayton & Alexa Stout We have to keep striving, not only towards fulfilling the hope that all students will become active citizens, but the intention that they will be active citizens, that they will be committed to changing their…

by Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton A decade ago, research suggested that, when it came to graduate education, colleges and universities focused more on disciplinary knowledge than civic engagement, despite the emphasis on the latter at the undergraduate…

by Patti H. Clayton, Sarah E. Stanlick, & Lori E. Kniffin What is your vision for the future of SLCE? Why? What must we particularly attend to in order to support the flourishing of the work in this direction? An…

by Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton 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…

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…

by Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton What is behind the not-uncommon question “Why service-learning and community engagement (SLCE)?” Are the questioners wondering “Why should the academy invest in this?” … “Why should I consider teaching in this unfamiliar…