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This research investigated how local community-based and nonprofit organizations benefit from cooperation with community-based learning (CBL) initiativesThe rapid pace of change currently under way in America's colleges and universities has sparked a wide-ranging and often heated public debate about the social role and responsibilities of higher education in American society and how best to prepare students to meet the challenges ahead. Eleven years ago, in his influential Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professorate, Boyer (1990) called on American colleges and universities to rethink the priorities of the professorate and reorient faculty reward structures to facilitate a broadened definition of scholarship and increased attentiveness to undergraduate Note: We wish to thank Judy Baker, director of the Student Volunteer Program, for her cooperation and assistance in making this project possible. Robert Daglish, Ellis George, and Henry Parker also contributed to this project as students in Sociology 4201: Seminar in Applied Social Research during the spring 1996 semester. We also thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism and helpful suggestions. Correspondence concerning this article should be directed to Bob Edwards,

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Using the Sunday comics as cultural artifacts, this research examines three cartoon families, “Dennis the Menace,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” and “Curtis.” All of the families are nuclear; the fatheris a white-collar worker; the mother remains at home. Each family has a male child who is the central character. A major difference is that the first two cartoons depict white families whereas the third describes an African American family. Using content analysis, the location of characters, activities, relationships between characters, and central themes are examined. Evidence of both family unity and social engagement is greater in the African American family than in either of the two white families. The portrayal of the two white families suggests a traditional pattern of neighbourhood containment in the older comic and isolation both within the family and between the family and community in the more contemporary one.

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