My local paper, the Dayton Daily News, recently ran a story about area college students (including Wright State students, of course) and their service to the community, through service-learning and other service projects. Read the story by Christopher Magan here.

Budget cuts are threatening civic service initiatives.  See what you can do to help save service here.

Kranich, N. C. (2010). Academic Libraries As Hubs For Deliberative Democracy.  Journal of Public Deliberation, 6(1),  n.p.

As part of yesterday's student-run philanthropy/community service event, Wright Commitment, I volunteered at Crayons to Classrooms (C2C) along a few other WSU students and staff members.  Crayons to Classrooms provides school supplies for teachers of children in need.  We helped teachers bag their supplies and get them to their cars.  C2C has served about 34 schools and more than 1,000 teachers in the Dayton area.  They celebrated the landmark o

Update:  I am waiting for the keynote to come to the library on DVD since I was ill and missed the lecture.  I will post a summary when I can get my hands on the DVD! I'm looking forward to hearing Dr. Barbara Holland, service-learning and civic engagement expert, speak at Wright State next week as part of the Presidential Lecture Series.  She will present on Tuesday, September 13 at 7 p.m.

Wright State University was recently named one of the top ten colleges that gives back to the community by The Washington Monthly.  You can also read more in the Huffington Post here.  The story at Huffington Post highlights a committee of Wright State University staff members has formed a group called

Eric Klein, the founder of CAN-DO, will speak at the Wright State Convocation tomorrow, Sept. 2 at 3 p.m.  Read the Full Story here. More about CAN-DO here.

The American Library Association Center for Civic Life is surveying libraries to determine what they are offering in terms of civic and community engagement.  Some more information is available here.  Please take the survey!  It's important to offer some proof of how we are supporting and engaging with our communities.

Why service-learning?  How did this come to be my "research agenda?" Service-learning provides meaningful opportunities for teaching and learning.  And it's clearly growing in popularity, nationally.  How do I know this?  There are lots of signs, including all the research that indicates students retain what they learn better when it's applied to real-world issues through service-learning.  But today, I'll focus on two of these signs.

Have you heard of this new site?  Philanthroper highlights a different nonprofit each day and allows members to donate as little as $1 or as much as $10 to the organization.  It's a cool twist on all of these daily deal sites that are all the rage now.