About MJCSL

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning or MJCSL is an open-access journal focusing on research, theory, pedagogy, and other matters related to academic service-learning, campus-community partnerships, and engaged/public scholarship in higher education. MJCSL is published by the University of Michigan's Edward Ginsberg Center, with support from Michigan Publishing.

Latest Blog Posts

Back to the Future: Reflecting on the SLCE Future Directions Project by Lori E. Kniffin, Sarah E. Stanlick, and Patti H. Clayton

Posted by Patricia Jewell on 2025-12-20

Lori E. Kniffin, Fort Hays State UniversitySarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic InstitutePatti H. Clayton, PHC Ventures & NC Campus Engagement When the MJCSL called for retrospective reflections on articles published in the journal throughout its 30-year history, we hopped in our metaphorical DeLorean and traveled back to the future. In 2015, the three of us (Lori, Sarah, and Patti) and [...]

Posted by Patricia Jewell on 2025-07-25

Remittances are often hailed in public discourse as symbols of sacrifice and familial devotion—unquestionably good and beneficial. But what happens after the money is sent? What are the emotional costs and interpersonal complexities that unfold when financial transfers become the foundation of family ties? My project investigates the emotional and moral economy of remittance transfers in the [...]

Posted by Patricia Jewell on 2025-07-25

Every day, educational inequities shape and restrain the life trajectories of underprivileged youth across the country. A longstanding correlation exists between environmental and educational inequalities, yet it remains commonly overlooked. In an effort to illuminate this connection, Princeton undergraduate researcher Humnah Poonawalla and high school student Fatima Zohra Poonawalla embarked on [...]

Posted by Patricia Jewell on 2025-07-25

My honors thesis examines how structural xenophobia—defined as societal and institutional conditions that systematically disadvantage immigrant populations—shapes externalizing symptoms among Latine youth in the United States. Externalizing symptoms, including aggression, hyperactivity, and rule-breaking, can have enduring consequences, predicting poor academic outcomes, substance use, and [...]

Posted by Patricia Jewell on 2025-07-25

Overview This study examines how having a physical disability influences one’s risk of being food insecure, given that they are above the age of 60. Southern Nevada is a unique landscape due to its incredibly scarce resources, low quality education, and lack of viable infrastructure to support an ever growing population. On the other hand, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted glaring disparities in [...]

Widen the community of civic engagement educators, engaged scholars, and their community partners in order to expand the number of groups and individuals who experience the benefits that accrue through engaged scholarship.

Encourage research, theory, pedagogy in civic engagement, campus-community partnerships, curriculum-based and co-corricular service-learning and engaged/public scholarship.

Contribute to the growth of civic engagement and engaged/public scholarship in order to develop a civic tempter that inspires collective action to expand access and opportunity to political, economic and social power.

Honor and develop the intellectual vigor of students, staff, faculty and community partners.

Encourage interdisciplinary approaches to complex social issues.

Promote scholarly innovation that reflects and advances diversity, equity and inclusion.

Volume 31 • Issue 2 • 2025