Survey: “Editorial Reflections” on past publications of the Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning – Jun 18

Posted by Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning on June 10, 2025

We (Patti Clayton, Sarah Stanlick, and Lori Kniffin) are responding to a recent call from the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning to reflect upon 30 years of the journal as a space of high-quality, thoughtful, innovative scholarship in service-learning and civic/community engagement.

We began the SLCE Future Direction’s Project (FDP) in 2015 in order to bring together many voices in nudging the field forward 20 years after Edward Zlotkowski’s (1995) seminal piece calling the field to consider the question of whether SLCE had a future. Now, 10 years later, we have the opportunity to reflect together again. The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) (where we published the set of SLCE FDP thought pieces) is celebrating its 30 year anniversary by inviting what they are calling “Editorial Reflections” on previously published articles. They are interested in including the SLCE FDP thought pieces in this project, and we are interested in hearing from a wide-range of people in the SLCE community around this.

To guide this reflective piece, we are asking for your help. We have created a survey to source reflections and aspirations from SLCE practitioners, scholars, and learners on where we have been and where we are going. This survey is anonymous if you want it to be; on the other hand, if you want your comments to be attributed to you, there is a space to indicate that in the survey.  We are viewing this as both oral history and an engaged reflection, and we appreciate any insight or wisdom you would like to share with us.

The deadline for responses is June 18.

Please complete the survey here.