The Engaged Campus

My first thought about “Why blog?” is “Everybody’s doing it,” but that does me little good, because I hear the metaphorical mother’s voice in my head responding, “If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?” Blogging, and electronic interactions in general, are the direction in which communication has taken us, whether we are eager or reluctant to embrace change. I remember ten years ago when I was hesitant to try service-learning. It seemed to be a long and uphill climb. There was no infrastructure at my institution to support this sort of thing; it was uncharted territory to me. Still, I felt compelled to do it, so I found my way, one phone call at a time, one community partner at a time, one volunteer training at a time, one conversation at a time, one inspired student at a time. Now, I can’t imagine my life without it. Service-learning is the way of the future in education, so it seems only natural to converse about service-learning in this futuristic, yet already entrenched medium. I am willing to give it a go.