Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2000

Publication Title

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

First Page

91

Last Page

97

Abstract

Service-learning can be viewed as a form of pedagogy designed to enhance learning and promote civic responsibility as well as one of a set of strategies to link the capacity of a college or university to the needs of society. A commitment to service-learning can become the avenue for a larger transformational change agenda by providing a focus and a reason to consider significant changes in campus priorities, faculty roles and rewards, resource utilization and university-community relationships. The case is made for the role of the scholar/practitioner president and the importance of a legitimate scholarly base to effect institutional change, and a set of questions are identified the answers for which would strengthen a president's and an institution's capacity to advance the service-learning agenda

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