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As more students seek to participate in service-learning, the range of service activities has expanded to include helping fellow Americans recover from natural disasters. Nowhere was this more evident than during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the months and years that have followed that disaster, college students have been essential to the recovery and rebuilding of Gulf Coast communities.
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Johnson, A., Hoovler, D. (2015). Service-Learning and Disaster Recovery. In: Jacob, W.J., Sutin, S.E., Weidman, J.C., Yeager, J.L. (eds) Community Engagement in Higher Education. Pittsburgh Studies In Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-007-9_3
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