Building Partnerships for Service-Learning

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It is clear that service-learning has the potential to yieldtremendous benefits to students, communities, and institutions ofhigher education. Increased student learning has been welldocumented. As communities gain new energy to meet their needs andgreater capacity to capitalize on their assets, service-learningenables higher education to fulfill its civic responsibility. Whenservice-learning lives up to its potential to lead colleges anduniversities to transform themselves into fully engaged citizens oftheir communities and the world, its ability to bring aboutpositive social change is limitless. To be successful, service-learning must be grounded in a widerange of solid, reciprocal, democratic partnerships. BuildingPartnerships for Service-Learning assembles leading voices inthe field to bring their expertise to bear on this crucial topic.Faculty, administrators, student leaders, and community andcorporate leaders will find this volume filled with vitalinformation, exemplary models, and practical tools needed to makeservice-learning succeed. Comprehensive in scope, Building Partnerships forService-Learning includes: * Fundamentals and frameworks for developing sustainablepartnerships * Assessment as a partnership-building process * The complex dynamics of collaboration between academic affairsand student affairs * Partnering with students to enhance service-learning * How to create campuswide infrastructure forservice-learning * Profiles and case studies of outstanding partnerships withneighborhoods, community agencies, and K-12 schools * Partnerships for collaborative action research * Exploring the challenges and benefits of corporate andinternational partnerships * The dynamic relationship of service-learning and the civicrenewal of higher education Building Partnerships for Service-Learning is theessential guide to taking service-learning and partnerships to thenext level.

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"This book supplies valuable theoretical and practical guidance in advancing partnerships in service-learning." (Planning for Higher Education, 5/1/2004)"In my judgment, Jacoby has it exactly right. Creating effective,democratic, mutually beneficial, mutually respectful partnershipsshould be a primary, if not the primary, agenda forservice-learning in the first decade of the twenty-first century." -- from the Foreword by Ira Harkavy, associate vice presidentand director, Center for Community Partnerships, University ofPennsylvania "The focus on partnerships could not be more timely!Service-learning requires colleges and universities to welcomecommunities into the 'academic tent,. and that requires specificpartnership strategies. This book gives service-learningpractitioners a comprehensive guide to building the effectiverelationships that are essential to service-learning success andsustainability." -- Barbara A. Holland, director, National Service-LearningClearinghouse "If colleges and universities are serious about civic engagementand service-learning, then they should heed the analysis and advicein Jacoby's book on how to structure and nurture partnerships thatare supportive, equitable, and successful." -- Robert G. Bringle, Chancellor's Professor of Psychology andPhilanthropic Studies and director, Center for Service andLearning, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis "This splendid volume should become indispensable for everyoneinterested in service-learning-- those in communityorganizations who work with service-learning programs and those oncampuses who are involved in service-learning. These essays will beinvaluable aids in helping both groups to assist and learn fromeach other." -- Thomas Ehrlich, senior scholar, The Carnegie Foundation forthe Advancement of Teaching
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