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Process, Content, and Community Building

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The Engaged Campus

Part of the book series: Community Engagement in Higher Education ((CEHE))

Abstract

In 1993 Providence College (a Catholic, undergraduate liberal arts college operated by the Dominican Friars, located in Providence, Rhode Island) piloted concept courses for a new major and minor in public and community service studies (PSP) under the administrative umbrella of its just-founded Feinstein Institute for Public Service (FIPS). This chapter provides a brief overview of the major, focusing on the conceptual framework it embodies; describes how ongoing reflection based on the experiences of alumni and community partners allow for coherence and diversity in the curriculum; and discusses the ongoing “interpretation” of community partnerships that is central to its work. The chapter closes by describing how an understanding of community as relationship is leading to an understanding of service-learning as an integrated system of learning processes shared by campus and community, an understanding that is gradually replacing a view of service-learning as a collaboration across separate systems of campus and community systems.

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Morton, K. (2012). Process, Content, and Community Building. In: Butin, D.W., Seider, S. (eds) The Engaged Campus. Community Engagement in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137113283_6

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