Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) sunsetted October 1, 2015. Mesa Community College hosts content from The Journal for Civic Commitment, published by the CCNCCE, to ensure it remains publicly available.
The important work of the CCNCCE was made possible through the financial support from many civic-minded foundations and organizations, including the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Learn and Serve America-Higher Education program, the Kettering Foundation, Campus Compact (through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Arizona Community Foundation, Arizona Foundation for Women, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Foundation, and The Teagle Foundation.
Journal Issue 1
- Civic Engagement and American Democracy
- Civic Responsibility and Service Learning: The Need for Curricular Integration
- Featured Interview with Terry Pickeral
- Global Civic Engagement: Building an Ethic of Commitment to Service through Human Geography
- The Use of History in the Movement for the Civic Engagement of Higher Education
- To Inform Their Discretion: Designing an Integrated Learning Community Focusing on Civic Engagement
Journal Issue 2
- Changing Landscapes: Enduring Values
- Citizenship and GEMS at Guam Community College: Transforming Students into Island Citizens
- Encouraging Civic Commitment in Diverse Neighborhoods: An Evaluation of a City Planning Service-Learning Course
- Feature Interview with Dr. Rufus Glasper, Chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona
- Participatory Research and Service-Learning: A Natural Match for the Community and Campus
- The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love: Using Peace Corps Literature to Teach Global Awareness, Critical Thinking, and Service Learning
Journal Issue 3
- Art and Service Learning: The Magnificent Moonsters: A Community College Art and Service Learning Project
- Back to the Basics: Service Learning and the Asian American Community
- Feature Interview with Dr. Lynn Suydam, President of St. Louis Community College at Meramec
- From Reflective Volunteerism to Civic Activism: Advancing Service Learning Pedagogy through Civic Engagement
- Healthy Neighborhood Healthy Heart Initiative: Bridging Community Health Theory to Civic Commitment
- Rural Service Learning: Turning Special Challenges Into Great Opportunities
Journal Issue 4
- Civic Honors Program at Johnson County Community College
- Encouraging Civic Engagement on College Campuses through Discussion Boards
- Feature Interviewee: Cheryl Crazy Bull, President Northwest Indian College in Washington
- Reaffirming the Value of Civic Engagement on Community College Campuses
- Twenty-first Century Learning: How Institutionalized is Service Learning?
Journal Issue 5
- A Practitioner’s Thoughts and Authentic Stories about Service Learning and Civic Engagement Projects
- Community Voice: Community Partners Reflect on Service Learning
- Featured Interview: Maria Hesse – President and Chief Executive Officer for Chandler-Gilbert Community College
- Service Learning and Community Collaboration: Designing Cross-Generational Intervention Projects for Pre-Adolescent Girls
- Service Learning as a Stimulus to Community Natural Resource Management
- Shared Reflection, Reciprocal Communication, Collaborative Action: Exploring the Role of Dialogue in Bridging Education and Democracy
Journal Issue 6
- Book Review: Service-Learning Across Cultures: Promise and Achievement, A Report to the Ford Foundation
- Bringing Absolutely Incredible Kid Day! to the Classroom and Campus Community
- Changes in Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills in a Service Learning Community Health Course
- Following Up on a Feature Interviewee: Maricopa Learns through Service: Chancellor Rufus Glasper Introduces Employee Service and Engagement Program
- Measuring the Impact of Service Learning at MCC: Designing and Implementing an Assessment Approach
- Serendipity at Kaimuki High School: A Honolulu Civic Education Experiment Jells
Journal Issue 7
- A Relationship for Our Time?: Community College Service Learning’s Ties to Civic Engagement
- Book Review: Public Work and the Academy: An Academic Administrator’s Guide to Civic Engagement and Service-Learning
- Book Review: The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences
- Creating a Successful Psychology Service Learning Philanthropy Course
- English Composition and Service Learning: Bringing Life into the Classroom
- Featured Interview with Lyvier Conss
- Increasing Advocacy Skills for Entry-Level Health Educators through Service Learning
- Service Learning and Civic Engagement: Pathway to Latino Immigrant Success through Servant Leadership
Journal Issue 8
- Developmental Outcomes of Service Learning Pedagogies
- Featured Interview with Amy Cohen, Director of Learn and Serve America at the Corporation for National and Community Service
- Frame-Changing Experiences: A Key to the Development of a Commitment to Service-Work and Social Action in Young Adults
- Inquiry, Insight and Civic Engagement: Re-visioning the Community-Based Service Learning Project in Pre-Service Literacy Methods Courses
- Mentored Service Learning and Rigorous Academics: Keys to Successful International Study Abroad Programs
- Students’ Perceptions of Service Learning as a Group Project
- The Role of Rural Latino Farm Working Males in the Prevention of Breast Cancer among Their Female Partners: An Example of Community-Based Research
Journal Issue 9
- Community Service Learning to Address Small Town Revitalization: University Participation in Main StreetTM Programs
- Featured Interview with Gail Robinson
- Investigative Drama: A Service Learning Capstone Theatre Course at Gonzaga University
- Mathematics and Civic Engagement: New Opportunities for Students in the 21st Century
- Teachable Moments of Civility in Every Classroom
- The Impact of College Student Immersion Service Learning Trips on Coping with Stress and Vocational Identity
Journal Issue 10
- Ductus Exemplo: Student Leadership By Example in Civic Engagement
- Featured Interview with Gail Jessen
- Introducing Community College Students to Civic Involvement through Experiential Survey Research: A Case Study
- Providing Context: Service-Learning in a Community College Composition Course
- Significant Findings in Campus-Community Engagement: Community Partner Perspective
- Strategies for Success: Starting a College Poll Worker Program
Journal Issue 11
- Disengagement in Decline
- Doing Research in Your Own Backyard: Student Researchers Working on University Needs
- Gardening Hope: How a Tutoring and Native Garden Project Impacted Preservice Teachers
- Lessons Learned While Developing a Community-Based Learning Initiative
- Rewarding Service Learning In Community Colleges through Faculty Promotion and Tenure Systems
- Service-Learning through Philanthropy in a Psychology of Death and Dying Course
- Who Is in Charge of This: Service Learning as a Context for Youth Empowerment Through Policy Participation in an After-School Program
Journal Issue 12
- An Autonomous Service Learning Domestic Violence Outreach Program
- Collecting Our Selves: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project
- Digital Media and Environmentalism: Using Statistics to Conserve Plastic Bags
- Engaging Students in Outreach as an Extension of Advocacy to Achieve Praxis
- Featured Interview with Rachael Cobb, Ph.D
- Human Services and Service Learning: Dissimilar but Complementary Value Domains
- Learning Citizenship by Doing: Evaluating the Effects of a Required Political Campaign Internship in American Government
- Learning English by Helping Others: Implementing Service Learning into the ESOL Classroom
Journal Issue 13
- A Study to Determine the Impact of Service-Learning on Students’ Attitudes on Civic Engagement
- C.A.M.P. Gator: Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program
- Community collaboration for underserved schools: A first-year honors service-learning seminar approach
- Engaging Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Composition and Service-Learning
- English Language Learners in Appalachia: Meeting the Need
- Feature Interview with Kevin Deegan-Krause
Journal Issue 14
- A Community of Scholars Educating for Political Engagement
- Is that Politics in My Health Care? Implementing Political Engagement in a Health Psychology Course to Increase Student Awareness
- Reinventing the Box: Faculty-Librarian Collaborative Efforts to Foster Service Learning for Political Engagement
- Service Learning as a Vehicle for Promoting Student Political Efficacy
- Service-Learning for Political Engagement Program
- “Democracy is Hard”/”Democracy is Messy”
- “For What You See as Just”: Paulo Freire and Asian American Studies in Community-Based Learning
Journal Issue 15
- Featured Interview with Dr. Mark David Milliron
- Finding the Value in Group Projects: Service Learning in a Group Communication Course
- Organ Donor Registration as a Service Learning Project
- Rules of Engagement: A Service Learning Pedagogy for Pre-service Teacher Education
- Student Civic Engagement Outcomes and the “Politics of Food”
- Student Reflections on a Watershed Service Learning Project Reveal Four Key Findings
- Students Mentoring Faculty Who Mentor Students: A Service Learning Program at an Urban Community College
- The Affect of Previous Service Activities on Student Experiences in a Service-Learning Course
Journal Issue 16
- Adding a Community-based Research Project to a Service-learning Program: Understanding folic acid needs of women in rural Honduras
- Developing an Ethic of Tension: Negotiating Service Learning and Critical Pedagogy Ethical Tensions
- Featured Interview: George Mehaffy and Brian Murphy
- Fostering College Students’ Civic Commitment through Alternative Breaks
- Integrating Service learning in Mathematics in an At-Risk School as a Vehicle for Teaching Curriculum Theory, Assessment, and Design
- Transformative Education: Creating a Generation of Environmental Leaders
- Using a Community Engagement Project to Reduce Apathy and Pessimism in an Urban Social Problems Course
Journal Issue 17
- A Transformational Journey: A Framework for Pre-Service Teachers to Learn About Diversity through Service Learning
- Book Review: Laura L. Carstensen et al., Civic Engagement in an Older America, Gerontological Society of America, 2010
- Connecting Academic Disciplines and Community through Service Learning: A Model from Sociology and Biology
- Political Awareness and Engagement among Latinas/os at an Urban, Commuter College Campus
- Pre-service “EdZoocation”: Strengthening Teacher Education with Civic Engagement and Community Partnerships
- The Courtroom as Classroom: Integrating Civic Engagement in Public Law Courses
- The Impact of Faculty Reflection on International Service Learning Experiences
- You Don’t Know Where You’re Going Until You’re on the Way There: Why Public “Work” Matters
Journal Issue 18
- Enhancing the Team Experience in Service Learning Courses
- Helping the Homeless: Intradepartmental Collaboration to Assist a Growing Population
- Implementing Civic Engagement Activities in the Rio Grande Valley
- Linking Empathy to Character Via a Service Learning Endeavor
- Preaching to the Apathetic and Uninterested: Teaching Civic Engagement to Freshmen and Non-Majors
- So They Can Feel Sure of Themselves: Community Service Learning Impact on Female Walkers
Journal Issue 19
- A Qualitative Examination of a Character Development Service Learning Project and its Impact on Internalizing Virtues in College Students
- Creating a Global Classroom: Providing Collaborative Research Opportunities for U.S. and Moldovan Students
- Embedding Engagement in a Political Science Course: Community College and University Students and the Help America Vote College Poll Worker Program
- How Service Learning is Understood Within Catalonian Secondary Schools
- “Nothing About Us Without Us is for Us”1: Civic Engagement through Consensus and Commitment2
Journal Issue 20
- Developing Curiosity in Science with Service
- Integrative Learning and a Community-Based Project in a Health Psychology Course
- Noticing the Homeless: Civic Engagement through Aesthetic Education
- Software Engineering Service Learning Project: Implementation and Measuring Its Impact
- Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Community Partners’ Perspective of their Service Learning Experiences
Journal Issue 22
- Education is Power: A Service Learning Project Educating Students in the USA and Empowering Students in Malawi
- Exploring Nonverbal Communication through Service Learning
- Factors Influencing Voluntary Nursing Student Service Learning Participation
- Service Learning and the Prevention of Communication Disorders
- Short Immersion Trips for Rural Students in Social Work
- Writing: A Tool for Historic Preservation and Civic Engagement
Journal Issue 23
- Academic Service Learning Benefits Diverse, Urban Community College Students
- Institutionalized Service Learning Promotes Engagement and Builds Social Integration
- Intercultural Inquiry as a Framework for Service Learning Course Design
- Promoting Intercultural Learning: International Service Learning in Tanzania as an Alternative Placement for Teacher Candidates
- Redefining Service Learning for Pre-Service Teachers: Extending Civic Commitment to Global Outreach
- Service Learning as a College Involvement and Success Strategy for Underserved Student Populations
- Service Learning Enhances Classroom Experiences but Does Not Inflate Grades: A Lesson from Courses in Ecology and Biology
- The Creation and Implementation of an Energy Audit Service Learning Project
- The Impact of Service Learning on Academic Knowledge, Personal Growth, and Civic Engagement in Community College Students
- Using Social Networking for Service Learning
Journal Issue 24
- A Case Study in College Poll Worker Recruitment: Chicago, 2014-15
- Capacity Building for Community Engagement in Community Colleges
- Teaching the Teachers’ Teachers: An Example of Engaged Teaching for Individual and Social Change
- The Benefits of Service Learning Across Disciplines
- The Impact of Academic Service Learning on Community College Students