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Civic and Community Engagement Impact on Economically Disadvantaged Students

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Higher levels of civic and community engagement in higher education are positively associated with students’ academic performance, and they also build upon citizenship skills such as informed voting. Yet, while these are worthy and important outcomes of higher education, students from disadvantaged backgrounds can have more difficulty navigating civic engagement. This chapter offers a much needed quantitative assessment of whether classroom engagement enhances civic and community engagement among students from disadvantaged backgrounds who attend large public research universities.

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    Victoria Porterfield

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    Krista M. Soria

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    Tania D. Mitchell

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Porterfield, V. (2016). Civic and Community Engagement Impact on Economically Disadvantaged Students. In: Soria, K., Mitchell, T. (eds) Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities. Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55312-6_4

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