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Richi Simon – Higher Education for the Future, 2024
Field action projects are a distinguishing feature in social work education and practice and can serve as a live lab for social work students. Many renowned social work educational institutions began with the field action projects and developed them to a significant level. The state of Madhya Pradesh, India has several problems, and field action…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Counselor Training, Field Studies
Katherine Hartmann – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
Land Grant Institutions (LGIs) and Cooperative Extension were founded to bring educational access to the states they serve. In contrast to this mission and the ubiquitous nature of Extension services in US counties, Extension offices can only be found in a small number of indigenous communities. Despite these inequities, there are Extension…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Education
Wabike, Paul – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
Universities contribution to society development in Africa has been a subject of discussion since many countries attained independence in the 1960s. The university was seen as having a function of emancipating society from poverty and ignorance. The premise of this view was based on the university's role in creating the ruling elite and knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Social Capital, Community Development
Fritsch, Aimee; Rasmussen, Catherine M.; Chazdon, Scott A. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
Current research on millennials primarily focuses on their behavior within an academic or workplace setting. This study expands on previous analysis by exploring how millennials respond to community leadership efforts, particularly cohort leadership programs. Participant outcomes from University of Minnesota Extension's County Bridging Leadership…
Descriptors: Counties, Program Descriptions, Leadership Training, Community Programs
Bauer, Ros – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
The Whole of Community Engagement (WCE) initiative commenced in July 2014, led by the Office of Pro Vice Chancellor of Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University (CDU). WCE aimed to build the aspiration, expectation and capacity of six remote and very remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory to participate and achieve in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Access to Education
Nichols, Naomi; Gaetz, Stephen; Phipps, David – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
In this article, a qualitative case study approach was used to explore the changes that community-campus collaborations stimulate. The authors document the "processes of interaction" (Spaapen & van Drooge, 2011) through which collaborations seek to contribute to positive social change, highlighting the outputs, outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, School Community Relationship
Yuwawutto, Sauwapa; Smitinont, Thitapha; Charoenanong, Numtip; Yokakul, Nattaka; Chatratana, Sonchai; Zawdie, Girma – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
This paper examines the university-industry-government relationship as a mechanism for enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The case of a community enterprise producing dried banana products in the north of Thailand is used to demonstrate the significance of the Triple Helix model for business…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Small Businesses, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Nogueira, Marcia Pompeo – Research in Drama Education, 2006
This paper analyses a community theatre project initiated in 1991 in Ratones, a community in Southern Brazil. It began as an extension project of the State University of Santa Catarina and became an independent project coordinated by former participants, still in collaboration with the university. Aiming to evaluate the benefits of this theatre…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Community Programs
Zaferatos, Nicholas C. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2007
This article presents an overview of a community development service learning programme operating in the Greek Ionian Island community of Farsa Village. The philosophical approach of the Kefalonia Program is one of "threading the past with the future". It seeks to combine traditional knowledge with contemporary technologies in order to…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Service Learning, Sustainability
Morse, George W.; Klein, Thomas K. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
In response to a state budget deficit, the University of Minnesota Extension restructured its field staff, establishing a new regional and county delivery system, shifting all supervision of field staff to campus faculty, and encouraging greater field staff specialization, program focus, and entrepreneurial efforts. Nine economic concepts and…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Higher Education, Community Development, Community Programs
Alberta Advanced Education, 2005
In 2005, the Minister of Advanced Education of Alberta initiated a comprehensive review to establish a new direction for Alberta's advanced education system. This initiative, A Learning Alberta, will identify a new vision and policy outcomes for the system. To assist in the development of the vision and policy framework, several other discussion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Partnerships in Education, Outcomes of Education
Moore, Anne H. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2004
Bordering on North Carolina, the Dan River region of Southside Virginia is a largely rural area south of the state capitol, Richmond, and 135 miles east of Virginia Tech's main residential campus in Blacksburg. The structural problems evident today in this expanse of wooded areas, fields, small cities, and towns were born, in large measure, of the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Change Agents, Rural Areas, Telecommunications