A Study of the Application of Carnegie Community Engagement Classification at Three Catholic Universities in U.S. and Taiwan

Autor: LIN, MAN-CHUN, 林縵君
Rok vydání: 2018
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 105
Service-learning in higher education institutions have been developed rapidly over years. Due to pubic expectation that higher education institutions would be able to actively engage social development in US, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification in 2006 to recognize universities as successful social institute. The study aims to explore the application of Carnegie Community Engagement Classification at two catholic universities, Loyola University Maryland (LUM) and University of Notre Dame (ND), in U.S. and one catholic university, Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU), in Taiwan. The study adopted document analysis, and conducted interviews 9 interviewees from cases universities. The major findings are as follows: 1.Catholic social justice is the guideline for promoting community engagement in three case universities. 2.Service-learning is an important strategy to practice community engagement in case universities. However, LUM and ND engage local community in planning. 3.Three case universities have set up an office to advance community engagement and service-learning, but LUM and ND have more human resources than FJU. 4.LUM and ND have established the campus-wide assessment and feedback mechanism and conduct a survey over the implementation of community engagement. In contrast, FJU does not. 5.The programs on service-learning in LUM and FJU focus more on experiential learning. Nevertheless, ND encourages students to take interdisciplinary courses and subjects. 6.Three case universities emphasize the partnership with community. ND tended to strengthen the partnership through research projects. 7.ND and FJU pay more attention to assisting the development of local churches. However, LUM strives for transformative partnership. The Carnegie Community Engagement Classification as reference of community engagement has assisted American universities to develop their programs and partnership. This framework could be also used for Taiwan universities for self-assessment to advance community engagement and service-learning in the future.
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