Service learning, as defined by the editors, is the generation of
knowledge that is of benefit to the community as a whole. This seventh
volume in the Outreach Scholarship book series contributes a unique
discussion of how service learning functions as a critical cornerstone
of outreach scholarship.
The sections and chapters of this book marshal evidence in support of
the idea that undergraduate service learning, infused throughout the
curriculum and coupled with outreach scholarship, is an integral means
through which higher education can engage people and institutions of the
communities of this nation in a manner that perpetuate civil society.
The editors, through this series of models of service learning, make a
powerful argument for the necessity of "engaged institutions".