New Book: Community Engagement and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Affordances and Challenges of Service Learning in Crisis

Posted by Vernon Press on June 10, 2025

The edited collection, Community Engagement and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Affordances and Challenges of Service Learning in Crisis, is now available. This collection captures community-engaged teaching that persisted in a time of global crisis. It spans the globe and many disciplines, exploring projects like re-entry services for formerly incarcerated people, get out the vote initiatives, and homelessness support. It also examines varied approaches to CE work like mutual aid, ethical frameworks, and reflective practice, building on and critquing decades of service learning scholarship. This book includes 44 contributing authors, including graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, and community partners. It not only addresses what folks did to continue facilitating partnerships between universities/colleges and community organizations, but also how those experiences have forever changed CE work in higher education. It seeks to offer a roadmap for community engagement in times of crisis and to inspire more CE instruction even in a time of widespread precarity and destabilization.

Book is available at 24% discount (using code CFC123710FA05 on checkout) from Vernon Press.