Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership - Softcover

Edward Zlotkowski (editor), Nicholas V. Longo (editor) & James R. Williams (editor)

9780972939454: Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972939458 ISBN 13: 9780972939454

Publisher: Campus Compact, 2006

This seminal volume takes service-learning to a new level by demonstrating how it can meet its academic and community goals while developing student leaders. Models from campuses across the country offer successful practices for recruiting and training student leaders in service-learning, using students to staff key administrative positions, and establishing student-faculty partnerships to design and run community-based courses. According to Campus Compact's member survey, nearly three-quarters of colleges and universities cite both student leadership development and student civic engagement as key outcomes in their strategic plans. Students as Colleagues is a must for anyone on campus seeking to achieve these institutional goals.

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Review:

Engaged students are vital to a flourishing democracy. This collection gives powerful examples of institutional support for student leadership in the academic curriculum that can help catalyze engagement on campuses around the country. We should all take notice, especially those of us who see service-learning as a vehicle for civic renewal. --Eduardo J. Padron, President, Miami Dade College"

"Students as Colleagues" provides colleges and universities with a strong rationale and specific models for expanding the role of students in all aspects of campus engagement. Its publication fills a large gap in the higher education resource library. --Richard M. Battistoni, Director, Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College"

"Students as Colleagues" is a stunning testament to the rich educational value that student expertise and leadership can bring to the civically engaged classroom. It is not a step-by-step guide to replicating the programs it describes, but a source of ideas and inspiration for students, faculty, and service-learning professionals alike. --Stephanie Raill, student, Macalester College"

Students as Colleagues provides colleges and universities with a strong rationale and specific models for expanding the role of students in all aspects of campus engagement. Its publication fills a large gap in the higher education resource library. --Richard M. Battistoni, Director, Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College"

Students as Colleagues is a stunning testament to the rich educational value that student expertise and leadership can bring to the civically engaged classroom. It is not a step-by-step guide to replicating the programs it describes, but a source of ideas and inspiration for students, faculty, and service-learning professionals alike. --Stephanie Raill, student, Macalester College"

About the Author:

Nicholas V. Longo is Chair of Global Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. Nick is author of Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life (SUNY Press), co-editor of From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities (Tufts University Press), and co-editor of a forthcoming book on deliberative pedagogy. Nick lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Aleida. Together, they have a great passion for educating the next generation of democratic citizens, starting with their children, Maya and Noah.

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