new service-learning periodical

This week I'd like to feature a new periodical: Campus Compact Reader. It
will be published three times a year by Campus Compact and will focus on
the civic dimensions of service-learning.

You can find more information on the Campus Compact web site
(http://www.compact.org); or you can contact John Saltmarsh
(jsaltmarsh@compact.org) for more information on how to subscribe to this
work.

Volume 1, issue 1 include the following articles:

The Path to a Civil Society Goes Through the University by William Damon
        Damon comments on "A Call to Civil Society", a report published 
last year
on the threats to civil life today.

The Work of Citizenship and the Problem of Service-Learning by Harry C.
Boyte and James Farr
        The authors provide a history of service and citizenship in the US,
highlighting times and efforts that married service and citizenship. 

The University as Citizen: Institutional Identity and Social Responsibility
by William M. Sullivan  
        Sullivan provides a history of the mission of higher education and
illustrates the need for institutes of higher learning to retrench and
refocus their mission to include civic-minded goals. 



Ann Treacy, Librarian
Learn and Serve America
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
http://umn.edu/~serve