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Product Description: This work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practitioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level. Faculty, students and community participants are the focus of this collection whose purpose is community health-based service learning--- where and when coming out to the community as caring catalysts is central to a higher education mission...read more

Product Description: Foreword by Aaron Shirley,MD and Robert Smith,MD This work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level. Faculty, students and community participants are the focus of this collection whose purpose is community health-based service learning--- where and when coming out to the community as caring catalysts is central to a higher education mission...read more

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Product Description: As recognized by Schmidt(2005) and Dumas-Hines et al (2001)many institutions of higher learning are facing the challenges of finding ways to diversify their campuses. This work by leading minority educators aims to answer the challenge by creating philosophical statements that reflect a national consensus , setting goals to diversify students and faculty, examining best practices, and implementing activities and action plans...read more