Journal article
Civic Learning While Earning? The Role of Student Employment in Cultivating Civic Commitments and Skills
Review of higher education, Vol.42(2), pp.707-737
12/01/2019
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2019.0012
Abstract
More American college students spend their time working in paid employment than in the past. Prior scholarship has focused on the relationship between work and conventional outcomes (e.g., grades, persistence, and engagement), but little is known about the impact of students' work on civic engagement. As campuses are called to prepare students for both careers and civic life, this analysis contributes evidence regarding a potentially tenuous relationship between students' employment and their subsequent willingness and ability to connect to their larger community. Findings reveal that on-campus jobs increase the odds that students develop civic commitments, while off-campus jobs do not.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Civic Learning While Earning? The Role of Student Employment in Cultivating Civic Commitments and Skills
- Creators
- Cassie L. Barnhardt - Univ Iowa, Educ Policy & Leadership Studies, Ctr Res Undergrad Educ, Iowa City, IA 52242 USATeniell Trolian - SUNY Albany, Educ Policy & Leadership, Albany, NY 12222 USABrian An - Univ Iowa, Educ Policy & Leadership Studies, Iowa City, IA 52242 USAPatrick D. Rossmann - Univ Iowa, Higher Educ & Student Affairs Program, Iowa City, IA 52242 USADemetri L. Morgan - Loyola University Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Review of higher education, Vol.42(2), pp.707-737
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- DOI
- 10.1353/rhe.2019.0012
- ISSN
- 0162-5748
- eISSN
- 1090-7009
- Number of pages
- 31
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Sociology and Criminology; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984283721902771
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