A Model for Engaging Students, Faculty, and Communities in Social Action through a Community-Based Curriculum and Admissions Process-A Case Study of the Honors Living-Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5935858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Engelbert Santana (0000-0002-2026-6450, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author), Davy Du Plessis (Namibia University of Science and Technology), Timothy Eatman, Timothy K Eatman (0000-0002-3352-3233, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 162 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci11040162 |
| OpenAlex | W4226031743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) at Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) pushes the boundaries of academia's possibilities by placing community-engaged scholarship as a critical pillar of student success. Established in 2015, the HLLC is pursuing its triumvirate rallying call-"revolutionizing honors, cultivating talent, and engaging communities". The HLLC brings together dynamic students passionate about social justice issues, Rutgers University-Newark faculty and staff, and community partners aiming to tackle some of the nation's most urgent social issues. Pivoting on a curriculum structured around what it means to be a local citizen in a global world, the HLLC brings students and faculty members from every school and college at Rutgers-Newark together with community-based partners to operationalize authentic experiential learning. With its emphasis on social action and issues of inequality, the HLLC brings together the academic sphere and community-based organizations to design and implement projects and courses that promote social justice in the community and enact ameliorative changes based on shared passions and mutual interests. Through a multimodal approach grounded in literature and best practices, the HLLC is built intentionally from the ground up on high-impact practices for student success and the principles of full participation. This paper highlights the HLLC's efforts to engage students and community members through community-engaged courses and programs to address issues such as inequity. Furthermore, the authors offer a model that actively moves beyond theory to practice-based initiatives within an honor's academic context. Examples of the HLLC's initiatives are presented to enhance the discourse around collective knowledge building and community-engaged research by highlighting student and community partner-led initiatives. Given the HLLC's resolve to develop a national model, the paper dedicates special attention to pedagogy and programs
Community engagement · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Engaged scholarship · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |