In the past fifteen years, American colleges and universities have embraced service-learning with active enthusiasm. Campus Compact, the national service learning organization of university presidents, began in 1985 with three members; today, it has almost 700 member campuses where students annually engage in an estimated 22 million hours of service activities linked to their academic studies. Hundreds of faculty members have found their teaching invigorated as they have observed the impact of service-learning projects on the community and on students’ personal and intellectual growth.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric