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College Makes New Connections With Service-Learning Program

NY (2/24/2009)

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i25/25a02501.htm

“That is a really powerful combination,” says Julie Plaut, head of national academic initiatives for Campus Compact, the largest nonprofit group promoting service learning. The arrangement is also a model that the Corporation for National and Community Service supports.

 

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