TY - JOUR
T1 - Faculty and student attitudes toward community service
T2 - A comparative analysis
AU - Bauer, E. Heidi
AU - Moskal, Barbara
AU - Gosink, Joan
AU - Lucena, Juan
AU - Muñoz, David
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - The Humanitarian Engineering initiative, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines, is creating a program that will support engineering students in understanding their responsibility for solving community development problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, data has been collected on faculty and student attitudes using the "Community Service Attitudes Scale," developed and validated by Shiarella, McCarthy, and Tucker. During the fall 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty members responded to this instrument. Statistically significant differences were found between the attitudes of students and faculty, males and females, and among different age groupings with respect to service activities. A general finding was that faculty displayed better attitudes toward community service than the students.
AB - The Humanitarian Engineering initiative, sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines, is creating a program that will support engineering students in understanding their responsibility for solving community development problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, data has been collected on faculty and student attitudes using the "Community Service Attitudes Scale," developed and validated by Shiarella, McCarthy, and Tucker. During the fall 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty members responded to this instrument. Statistically significant differences were found between the attitudes of students and faculty, males and females, and among different age groupings with respect to service activities. A general finding was that faculty displayed better attitudes toward community service than the students.
KW - Community service
KW - Humanitarian engineering
KW - Service learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37349047652&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00923.x
DO - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00923.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:37349047652
SN - 1069-4730
VL - 96
SP - 129
EP - 140
JO - Journal of Engineering Education
JF - Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 2
ER -