Welcome to SPACE, an online journal that promotes student service-learning and civic engagement experiences in metropolitan Chicago. SPACE invites students to submit manuscripts about their service-learning and civic engagement experiences. Our goal is to publish scholarly and reflective writing that enlightens service-learning and civic engagement practitioners and scholars about student experiences that extend beyond the classroom and into communities.
We publish work from students who seek to extend their learning through reflection, by connecting their experiences to extant research, and/or by conducting their own research through their civic experiences. All papers that reflect a service-learning or civic engagement course experience will be considered.
Topics of interest include:
- Aging
- Children and Youth
- Community Development
- Community Organizing
- Criminal Justice
- Diversity, Environment
- Food Access
- Housing and Homelessness
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Public Education
- Public Policy
- Social Justice
Current Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1 (2025) Book Bans, Culture Wars, and Community Engagement
SPACE 2025 Volume 8 Our 2025 issue engages with the intersections of legislation, policy, and curriculum, particularly as our nation’s schools and libraries see a rise in book bans, challenges to curriculum content, and policies that outline whose histories can be taught in schools.Editorial
Articles
We Built This: Redesigning Higher Education from the Ground Up While They Try to Burn It Down
Shawntay King, Juanita E. Marquez, Keisha Rembert, Jolene Taylor, and Thera Tilmon
Editors
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- Todd Alan Price
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- Rachel Waymel