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Download full textNicole King; Tahira Mahdi; Sarah Fouts – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
This Projects With Promise case study offers insights for addressing tensions between universities and communities in building partnerships and collectively rethinking "the field" of community engagement. We explore moving beyond a solely place-based understanding of "the field" into an ethos based on human interactions and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement, Ethics, Community Development
Whitney Hough – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2024
This article focuses on the PeaceJam Foundation Ambassadors Curriculum, analyzing how its content and structure align with a Transformative Human Rights Education (THRE) approach. A THRE approach centers on creating social change and encourages youth to analyze structures and conditions that lead to injustice. It embraces emancipatory learning…
Descriptors: Peace, Education, Philanthropic Foundations, Curriculum
Direct linkGavin Moodie; Leesa Wheelahan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper argues that colleges anchor their communities by developing knowledge and skills within their region; establishing links and exchanges outside the region; contributing to civic, political, cultural, and social activities and networks in their region; developing facilities and amenities used by the community; and, contributing to their…
Descriptors: College Role, School Community Relationship, Postsecondary Education, Cooperation
Nicky Denison; Les Newby; Peter Mackreth; Peter R. H. Slee – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
The Leeds Anchor Network (or system) was established in 2017 with eight founder organizations. In 2024, membership was 14 and represented 1 in 7 of the Leeds city workforce. Leeds Beckett University is a founding member. This paper explains how the system originated and developed, the role Leeds Beckett University has played in that process, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Rufus Glasper – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
As educators reconsider higher education's public good mission, community colleges face a monumental task. These colleges still serve a student population that includes many low-income, traditionally underrepresented, first-generation college students with family and job responsibilities that demand their attention. For community colleges, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Sense of Community, Student Experience, School Culture
Todd Swanstrom; Ifeanyi Ukpabi; Elaina Johns-Wolfe – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Anchor movements rest on the premise that people- and place-based initiatives can be mutually reinforcing. The community development movement, however, has been haunted for years by the people-place dilemma -- the idea that efforts to help people harm efforts to uplift places and vice versa. Most of the literature on the anchor strategy has…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education
