Editing Service-learning (section)

==Notable people==
[[Alexander Astin]], founding director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program and the Higher Education Research Institute, formed a Theory of Involvement which explains how student involvement in co-curricular activities positively affects college outcomes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander Astin's Theory of Involvement |url=https://studentdevelopmenttheory.weebly.com/astin.html |website=Student Development Theory |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> Through a 1998 study of college seniors, Astin demonstrated that service greatly improves critical thinking skills.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eyler |first1=Janet |last2=Giles |first2=Dwight E. Jr. |title=Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? |date=1999 |publisher=Jossey-Bass Publishers |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-7879-4483-1 |edition=1st |url=https://archive.org/details/whereslearningin00eyle }}</ref>

[[Nadinne I. Cruz]]: works as an independent consultant.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Melissa |title=About Nadinne Cruz |url=https://apps.carleton.edu/events/commencement/degrees/recipients/Cruz/ |website=Carleton |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> She gained enthusiasm for the cause of service learning through her work in the Philippines.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCaffrey |first1=Meg |title=Nadinne Cruz, renowned practitioner and advocate of service learning, to be involved in major Fairfield University initiative |url=https://www.fairfield.edu/lassochannel/press/pr_index/index.lasso?id=2143 |website=Fairfield University |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> Now, she is an advocate of service learning who argues that only a small portion of skills needed to address life's problems can be learned through traditional academia. Other skills, such as courage, forgiveness, and stewarding the earth, must be learned elsewhere. Therefore, she recommends service learning and community engagement, which “offer learning with and from wise people, who teach by example.”<ref>{{cite web |title=TEDxPioneerValley –Nadinne Cruz – Education on Fire.mov |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbQwCb2Gl8 |website=YouTube | date=25 February 2012 |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref>

[[Andrew Furco]]: Associate Vice President for Public Engagement at the University of Minnesota and a professor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty & Instructors |url=http://www.cehd.umn.edu/olpd/people/afurco/ |website=University of Minnesota |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> Furco has contributed a variety of literature to service learning, including two books: Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy and Service-Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens, which he co-authored with S. Billig.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrew Furco |url=https://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/andrew-furco/ |website=The Taillores Network |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> He gives five reasons engagement programs differ from engaged universities: “Engagement differs from outreach… is at the heart of the university’s identity… focuses on partnerships… is with, not to, for, or in communities… is about institutional transformation.”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maynard |first1=Meleah |title=Awesomely Urban: A Conversation with Andrew Furco |url=https://umnalumni.org/UMAA-stories/Awesomely-Urban-Andrew-Furco |website=University of Minnesota Alumni Association |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref>

[[James Kielsmeier]]: Founded the National Youth Leadership Council, a nonprofit that became the service-learning movement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Founder |url=https://nylc.org/leadership-team/founder/ |website=National Youth Leadership Council |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref> Kielsmeier posits that service learning involves a change in how schools see young people: from “resource users, recipients, and victims” to “contributors, givers, and leaders.”<ref>{{cite web |title=Service and schools – partnership on purpose: Jim Kielsmeier at TEDxFargo |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AkyEuS6QU |website=YouTube | date=14 October 2013 |access-date=18 July 2018}}</ref>