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This article offers an introduction to service learning and a brief review of the research on the effects of service learning on academic and values development. It outlines in detail the history of Campus Compact, an organization of 517 college and university presidents founded in 1985, and its Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study. Lessons learned about institutionalizing service learning and information about resources for doing so are also summarized. The findings are based on a three-year, national project supported by the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor, and two service-learning case studies.
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Keith Morton is assistant professor of American Studies and the Associate Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public and Community Service at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. He was Project Director of Campus Compact's Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study from 1992–1994.
Marie Troppe is the Project Associate for the Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Morton, K., Troppe, M. From the margin to the mainstream: Campus Compact's Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study. Journal of Business Ethics 15, 21–32 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380259
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380259