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Deepening community engagement speaks to our commitment to develop innovations in community-based learning and service that facilitate transformative experiences. These experiences are transformative for students who, through linking critical inquiry and community engagement, are gaining the knowledge, skills, and values to become “generative citizens,” committed to actions that create more equitable systems for the future public good (Musil, 2003). They are also transformative for communities where, through partnerships with higher education institutions, innovative practices create new opportunities to address critical community concerns. Higher education institutions are also transformed as community engagement changes the ways faculty members teach and research, the ways students learn and develop, and the ways lines between campus and community are blurred and reconfigured.
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Mitchell, T.D. (2013). Critical Service-Learning as a Philosophy for Deepening Community Engagement. In: Hoy, A., Johnson, M. (eds) Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education. Community Engagement in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315984_20
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