Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement

Offers detailed profiles of eighty-one colleges with programs that emphasize service-learning programs, answering key questions about each institution and its relationship with the surrounding community, support of civic engagement and political activism, volunteer opportunities, and policies on a variety of important social issues. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Students don't have to choose between improving the world and succeeding in college. Colleges with a Conscience provides detailed information geared toward prospective college students searching for facts about life that go beyond raw admissions statistics.

SCHOOL PROFILES
Colleges with a Conscience is a unique guide to 81 carefully selected service-learning programs. Students can learn how to get involved, find financial support for service, and integrate community work with academic life.

SMART RESEARCH
From sorting through mountains of view books to preparing for a campus tour, The Princeton Review informs students about finding a socially responsible college, including a "How To" list of questions, such as:

·What role do students have in university decision making?
·What kinds of volunteer opportunities are available to students?
·What is the relationship between the university and its surrounding community?
·What are the university’s policies on issues such as fair labor, living wage of its employees, and food salvaging?
·How does the institution support student political activism and civic engagement?

STUDENT PROFILES
With a chapter devoted to profiling students who are leaders on their campuses, book buyers can read about real college students who balance social activism with school and college life.

Offers profiles of colleges with programs that emphasize service-learning programs, answering questions about each institution and its relationship with the surrounding community, support of civic engagement and political activism, volunteer opportunities, and policies on a variety of social issues.

General

ISBN		9780375764806
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Non-Fiction
Publisher		Princeton Review
Pages		257
List Price		$16.95
Publication Date		06/21/2005
Release Status		Out of Stock Indefinitely
Format		Paperback
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 9 Inches (US) Width: 7 Inches (US) Thickness: 0.75 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 0.95 Pounds (US)
Series		Princeton Review Series