Browsing by Author "Gazley, Beth"

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    Service Learning from the Supply Side-Community Capacity to Engage Students
    (IUPUI (Campus). Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 2012) Littlepage, Laura; Gazley, Beth; Bennett, Teresa
    This paper reports on a study of nearly 2,000 nonprofit agencies in two Indiana cities, involving multiple college campuses. We use a comparative, multidisciplinary theoretical framework to understand how nonprofit agencies involve various kinds of college student volunteers as interns, course-based service-learners and general volunteers. The community impact of service-learning has been given limited attention in educational or public affairs research. Drawing on the service-learning research and on national studies of volunteer management capacity, we address the way that community agencies use volunteer management tools to support students and how they discern between the various forms of student involvement. This generalizable study follows extensive field and qualitative research. The results can help build an understanding of the community capacity to involve more college students, which has become a policy question with increasing public value.
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    Understanding Community-Based Experiential Learning
    (IU Public Policy Institute, 2012-01) Littlepage, Laura; Gazley, Beth; Bennett, Teresa
    This paper reports on a study of nearly 2,000 nonprofit agencies in two Indiana cities, involving multiple college campuses. We use a comparative, multidisciplinary theoretical framework to understand how nonprofit agencies involve various kinds of college student volunteers as interns, course-based service-learners and general volunteers. The community impact of service-learning has been given limited attention in educational or public affairs research. Drawing on the service-learning research and on national studies of volunteer management capacity, we address the way that community agencies use volunteer management tools to support students and how they discern between the various forms of student involvement. This generalizable study follows extensive field and qualitative research. The results can help build an understanding of the community capacity to involve more college students, which has become a policy question with increasing public value.
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    Volunteer Management Capacity and Student Service-Learners: A Study of Indiana Community Agencies
    (IUPUI (Campus). Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 2007-10) Littlepage, Laura; Gazley, Beth
    This report uses focus group interviews from 21 Indiana agencies and case studies of three agencies to describe the host agency’s perspective on student service-learners.
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    What About the Host Agency? Nonprofit Perspectives on Community-Based Student Learning and Volunteering
    (IUPUI (Campus). Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 2012-04-03) Littlepage, Laura; Gazley, Beth; Bennett, Teresa
    College student volunteerism and interest in community-based learning are on the rise. Are communities ready for them? This article examines the “supply side” of student engagement: nonprofit capacity to accommodate students. Our analysis of a large random sample of nonprofit managers in two contrasting communities finds that many of the volunteer management (VM) functions assumed to be important in any volunteer context also are important to student engagement. We also find role differentiation between interns, service learners, and general volunteers in the VM tools used to engage these students and the outcomes that can be expected. Despite variation in reported outcomes, nonprofit managers consider some aspects of VM to be essential to all campus–community partnerships. We find that each type of student involvement contributes to organizational capacity in specific ways and that student engagement depends on adequate VM capacity (VMC). Our conclusion discusses how the findings challenge service learning as presently formulated.