Keeping Our Promise: Reenvisioning and Sustaining a 20-Year Service-Learning/ Community Service Student Grant Program.

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Title: Keeping Our Promise: Reenvisioning and Sustaining a 20-Year Service-Learning/ Community Service Student Grant Program.
Authors: Payne, Lindsey1,2, Vasilko, Kayla3,4, Evich, Carly D.5, Dunca, Lisa L.6,7
Source: Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement. 2026, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p75-84. 10p.
Subject Terms: *Service learning, *Student engagement, *Educational evaluation, *Community involvement, *Higher education, *Land grant institutions, Government aid, Community services
Geographic Terms: United States
Abstract: As the higher education landscape in the United States continues to be redefined (Boggs et al., 2021; Post et al., 2023), it is crucial that community-engaged professionals critically examine strategies in supporting community–campus partnerships to maximize engagement and positive impact. Since its founding in 2003, little has been done to assess programmatic outcomes and strategically align the Purdue Office of Engagement’s student community service/service-learning grant program with efforts to enhance and normalize engagement across the university. This article details how staff reenvisioned the grant program based on the evaluation results and are working to strategically integrate increased knowledge and awareness of engagement and its linkage to the university’s land-grant mission for students into revised grant programming. Revisions include intentional reporting opportunities for impact metrics, collaborating with a course in data science to create a new grant submission and application review database, and future plans to strategically evaluate community impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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