About the MJCSL

The MJCSL is a national, peer-reviewed journal for college and university faculty and administrators, with an editorial board consisting of faculty from many academic disciplines and professional fields at the University of Michigan and other institutions of higher education around the country. The Michigan Journal provides a venue to intellectually stimulate educators around the issues pertinent to academic service-learning in higher education, as well as a venue to publish scholarly articles specifically for a service-learning audience.

The MJCSL aims to widen the community of service-learning educators, to sustain and develop the intellectual vigor of those in this community, and to encourage research and pedagogical scholarship related to service-learning. Furthermore, it strives to contribute to the academic legitimacy of service-learning and to increase the number of students and faculty who have a chance to experience the rich teaching and learning benefits that accrue to service-learning participants.

MJCSL publishes papers that pertain to the theory, practice, pedagogy, and/or research of academic service-learning in higher education. Contributing authors are associated with a wide range of academic disciplines and professions.

Since its inception in 1994 through 2000, the journal has been an annual publication. Beginning with Volume 8 (Fall of 2001), the Journal will publish two issues per year: one in the fall and one in the spring. Past volumes' abstracts can be reviewed by clicking here or on the "past abstracts" button on the menu at any time.

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (ISSN:1076-0180) is published by the OCSL PRESS at the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan, 1024 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-3310.

What Scholars and Practioners are saying about the MJCSL

"For the first time, those interested in the field of community service learning have a superb, scholarly journal that offers the best of new insights and contemporary understandings, tested by a rigorous peer-review process."

Thomas Ehrlich
Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
President Emeritus, Indiana University

"I depend on the Michigan Journal for my own research and for developing academically-based community service projects. It is a very important journal."

Ira Harkavy
Director, Campus-Community Partnerships
University of Pennsylvania

"As the only peer-reviewed journal for service-learning, the Michigan Journal enables practitioners and researchers alike to understand and contribute to significant advances in the field. I look to the Journal as a resource for proven service-learning strategies and evaluation methods."

Sarena Seifer, M.D.
Research Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

"The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning has done more to advance and deepen the theory and practice of service-learning than any other publication. It belongs on the shelf of every practitioner of service-learning and every leader in civic education. No university library should be without it."

Elizabeth Hollander
Executive Director
Campus Compact

"Not only one of the best service-learning resources anywhere, but one of the best journals devoted to teaching and research in higher education."

Dwight Giles
Professor
University of Massachusetts - Boston

"Required reading for scholars and practitioners concerned with service-learning instruction in post-secondary education."

Timothy Stanton
Former Director, Haas Center for Public Service
Stanford University

"The MJCSL is invaluable, not just for those interested in service-learning, but also for all committed to progressive educational change. Each issue contains articles that challenge us to reconceptualize not just our practice but the very categories we use to explain what we do as teacher-scholars."

Edward Zlotkowski
Professor, Bentley College
AAHE Senior Associate

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