Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities

1. Developing Undergraduates’ Civic Capabilities: The Unique Contributions of American Public Research Universities
Krista M. Soria, Tania D. Mitchell, June Nobbe

Part I. Institutional Conditions Framing Undergraduates’ Civic and Citizenship Engagement at Research Universities

2. Civic Attitudes Development Among Undergraduate Students at American Research Universities: An Examination by Student Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status
Young K. Kim, Marla A. Franco, Liz A. Rennick

3. Creating the Conditions for Political Engagement: A Narrative Approach for Community-Engaged Scholarship and Civic Leadership Development
Brandon W. Kliewer, Kerry L. Priest

4. Civic and Community Engagement Impact on Economically Disadvantaged Students
Victoria Porterfield

5. Community Service and Service-Learning at Large American Public Research Universities
Jeremy L. Williams, Krista M. Soria, Claire Erickson

6. Redefining Civic Engagement: A Developmental Model of Students’ Civic-Related Capabilities
Luis Ponjuan, Cynthia M. Alcantar, Krista M. Soria

Part II. Undergraduates’ Participation in Community Service and Service-Learning: Involvement and Outcomes

7. Civic Attitudes and the Undergraduate Experience
Gary R. Kirk, Jacob Grohs

8. Modeling the Influence of Service-Learning on Academic and Sociocultural Gains: Findings from a Multi-institutional Study
Andrew Furco, Daniel Jones-White, Ronald Huesman, Laura Segrue Gorny

9. Pluralistic Outcomes Associated with Undergraduates’ Citizenship Development
Krista M. Soria, Matthew Johnson, Tania D. Mitchell

10. Belonging and Satisfaction of Service-Minded Students at American Research Universities
Teniell L. Trolian, Sarah SanGiovanni, Wayne Jacobson

Part III. Engaging Undergraduates for Social Justice and Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Students’ Civic Engagement

11. Realizing a Critical Framework for Service-Learning at an American Public Research University
Douglas Barrera, Keali‘i Troy Kukahiko, Lauren N. Willner, Kathy O’Byrne

12. Student Activism as Civic Engagement: Challenging Institutional Conditions for Civic Leadership at University of Virginia
Walter F. Heinecke, Rose Cole, Ibby Han, Nqobile Mthethwa

13. Seeking Social Justice: Undergraduates’ Engagement in Social Change and Social Justice at American Research Universities
Tania D. Mitchell, Krista M. Soria

14. Revisiting the Civic Mission of the American Public Research University
Tania D. Mitchell

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Social Work and Community Development, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education