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Measuring the Impact of Community Service Learning

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Opportunities for students to engage in community service and community service learning are increasingly prevalent on American college campuses. According to an annual survey of college freshmen by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 65 percent of American college students recently characterized their respective universities as offering opportunities for community service learning (Liu, Ruiz, DeAngelo & Pryor, 2009). Likewise, the Corporation for National and Community Service has reported that the number of college students participating in community service jumped from 2.7 million in 2002 to 3.3 million in 2005, a growth rate double that of adult volunteers during this same time period (Dote, Cramer, Dietz & Grimm, 2006).

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Seider, S., Novick, S. (2012). Measuring the Impact of Community Service Learning. 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_8

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