This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers both theory and practice, and draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods.

This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers both theory and practice, and draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods.

PART I: SERVICE-LEARNING AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES 1. The Roots of Service-Learning as a Basis for Advancing the Civic Mission of Community Colleges; Robert G. Bringle, Kathleen E. Edwards, and Patti H. Clayton 2. The Community's College: Contextualizing Service-Learning in the Mission and Development of Community Colleges; Vanessa Smith Morest PART II: SERVICE-LEARNING IN DIVERSE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONTEXTS 3. Hitting Close to Home: When Service-Learners Serve Their Own; Heather B. Wylie 4. Service-Learning and Immigrant-Origin Community College Students: How and Why Project Design Matters; Amy E. Traver, Zivah Perel Katz, and Michael Bradley 5. Connecting Past and Present: Nontraditional Learner and Practitioner Experiences Through Service-Learning; Suzanne M. Buglione and Amanda Wittman 6. Race, Ethnicity, and Service-Learning: Understanding Access and Equity Using a Critical Quantitative Approach; Drew Allen, Diana Strumbos, and Janelle Clay PART III: SERVICE-LEARNING AND STUDENT SUCCESS IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES 7. Service-Learning: A Vehicle for Enhancing Academic Performance and Retention among Community College Developmental Reading and Writing Students; Regina A. Rochford 8. Connect2Complete: Combining Service-Learning and Peer Advocates to Increase Student Success in Developmental Education; Shana Berger and Donna Duffy 9. Promoting Community College Student Transfer: The Role of Service-Learning; Jaime Lester and Carrie Klein 10. The Prism Effect of Service-Learning; Mary Prentice and Gail Robinson 11. Service-Learning's Role in Achieving Institutional Outcomes: Engagement, Learning, and Achievement; Yao Zhang Hill, Tanya Renner, Francisco Acoba, Krista Hiser, and Robert W. Franco PART IV: SERVICE-LEARNING AS COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE NEXUS 12. Community College Service-Learning Programs: The Well-Traveled Path to Civic Engagement; Mary Prentice 13. Service-Learning and the Acquisition of Social Capital in the Community College Setting; Amy Pucino and Thomas Penniston 14. Service-Learning as a Pedagogical Tool for Career Development and Vocational Training; Sharon Ellerton, Cristina Di Meo, Arlene Kemmerer, Josephine Pantaleo, Mary Bandziukas, Michael Bradley, and Victor Fichera 15. Mapping Routes to Our Roots: Student Civic Engagement in Transportation Planning; Rebecca M. Townsend PART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS IN SERVICE-LEARNING AND SERVICE-LEARNING RESEARCH AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES 16. Overcoming Obstacles for Involving Part-Time Faculty in Service-Learning; Daniel Maxey and Adrianna Kezar 17. Service-Learning Among 'Nontraditional' College Students: Contexts, Trends, and Implications; Shannon S. Fleishman, Kristina Brezicha, and Travis York 18. Best Practices in Researching Service-Learning at Community Colleges; Amanda Taggart and Gloria Crisp PART VI: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ON SERVICE-LEARNING AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES 19. The Idea of Place; Scott Evenbeck, Paulette Dalpes, and Linda E. Merians 20. There is a Reason Community is in Our Name: Thoughts on How Service-Learning Expands Community in Community College; Robert Exley 21. Expanding Faculty Participation and Research in Academic Service-Learning at a Community College; Diane B. Call 22. Sustaining Momentum; Maria Hesse