Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

“[This] book is a significant addition to the field of service-learning and civic engagement in higher education and should become a standard resource. The authors are arguably the two most significant thought leaders in service-learning and civic engagement today, and the breadth and depth of their assembled essays—on issues of definition and rationale, models, on-the-ground implementation, institutional change, future directions—are remarkable. Higher Education and Democracy does an admirable job of illustrating the evolution and complexity of the authors’ thinking regarding the most significant issues facing the field.”
—Patti H. Clayton, Consultant (PHC Ventures) and Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Dr. John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the Graduate College of Education.

Edward Zlotkowski is a Professor of English at Bentley College. He writes and speaks extensively on a wide range of service-learning and civic engagement-related topics, and served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education’s 21-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines.