Amy Gibans McGlashan, executive director of Vermont Campus Compact, ascribes the surge of interest in service learning to ‘a confluence’ of factors, among them, a generation of college presidents who came of age in the ’˜60s and are vigorous proponents of civic engagement, and a generation of college students, (‘the millennials’) are known to be civically and globally minded.
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Colleges Embrace Service Learning
VT (4/3/2009)
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Before I started working in community service-learning, I was one of those people who didn't have much of a social conscience. Now all of that has changed, and I say, 'Put me in the trenches to do the real work to make a difference.'
-Student Service-Learning Leader, University of San Diego