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Community Service and Social Justice at Research Universities

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The purpose of this chapter is to discover whether various community service settings or different types of community service are differentially associated with students’ engagement in social justice. Utilizing data from the Multi-institutional Study of Leadership survey, the authors discovered that all forms of community service (i.e., in a course, as part of a work-study experience, as part of a community organization, in a campus organization, or on their own) are positively associated with students’ engagement in social justice.

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Krista M. Soria

  2. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Tania D. Mitchell

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Soria, K.M., Mitchell, T.D. (2018). Community Service and Social Justice at Research Universities. In: Mitchell, T., Soria, K. (eds) Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62971-1_17

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