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Nicole 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
Souresh Cornet; Saswat Barpanda; Marc-Antoine Diego Guidi; P. K. Viswanathan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims at understanding how higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute to sustainable development, by designing their programmes for bringing about a transformative impact on communities and students, and also to examine what alternative pedagogical approaches could be used for that. In the past decades, HEIs have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Higher Education, Community Development
Isaac Kofi Biney – Adult Learning, 2024
This paper reflects on Freire's discourse on liberating education and adult educators' educational roles with community groups in transforming communities. Mineral-rich communities in Ghana are in danger of losing water bodies, rich arable lands, and forest vegetation cover through "galamsey," which refers to the gathering of rich…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Transformative Learning, Teacher Role, Foreign Countries
Smith, Tracy; Spooner, Melba – To Improve the Academy, 2021
This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial artifacts and outcomes of a faculty support (a.k.a. mentoring) model developed for a specific academic context: a College of Education at a Southeastern comprehensive public university. The purposes of this article are to (1) describe the research and theoretical models that…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Participatory Research, Community Development, Models
Mitchell, Tania D.; Rost-Banik, Colleen; Battistoni, Richard M. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2019
Through in-depth interviews and focus groups with alumni from three institutions, the authors of this qualitative study explore the contours and desires of political engagement postgraduation. Giving credit to their respective community engagement programs, alumni illustrate their enduring commitments to civic and political action by participating…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Alumni, Political Attitudes, College Graduates
Kuttner, Paul J.; Byrne, Kara; Schmit, Kimberly; Munro, Sarah – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
Over the past 50 years, colleges and universities have taken on increasingly important roles as anchor institutions in U.S. cities, partnering with local communities to promote development and well-being. Such community-campus partnerships rely on the work of community engagement professionals (CEPs), staff tasked with administering, coordinating,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Higher Education
Sandmann, Lorilee R., Ed.; Jones, Diann O., Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
Community engagement has evolved as a respected field and now occupies a seat at the academic table. In the past, this work had often been relegated to the institutional fringes of higher education, its practitioners marginalized, and the work often portrayed as service, not scholarly. Today, higher education community engagement is a dynamic and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Universities, Community Involvement
Rodwell, Gary D.; Klugh, Elgin L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
This paper explores efforts of the Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) to: (1) increase the commitment to community engagement at Coppin State University, an HBCU situated in the heart of one of Baltimore's most challenged communities; and, (2) increase the community's capacity to engage the university, and other institutions,…
Descriptors: State Universities, Urban Universities, School Community Relationship, Community Development
Richard Dunfee Ed.; Ashish K. Vaidya Ed. – American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2015
Student success is at the center of successful regional engagement. Thus, the relationship between institutional outreach through the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) "stewards of place" paradigm and meaningful student participation in the effort is fundamental to the success of regional engagement. The…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Student Participation, Labor Force Development, Technology
Strohschen, Gabriele I. E., Ed.; Lewis, Kim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Education for adults ought to consider a both-and mindset when it comes to selecting approaches, values, and program models in today's multi-sector, multi-diverse, and cross-cultural environments of teaching and learning. Experiences from educational professionals can lead to recommendations for these instruction and mentoring approaches of adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Situated Learning, Active Learning
Gilbert, Dorie J.; Held, Mary Lehman; Ellzey, Janet L.; Bailey, William T.; Young, Laurie B. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This article reviews the literature on challenges faced by engineering faculty in educating their students on community-engaged, sustainable technical solutions in developing countries. We review a number of approaches to increasing teaching modules on social and community components of international development education, from adding capstone…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Social Work, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Clydesdale, Tim – Liberal Education, 2014
Tim Clydesdale is professor of sociology at the College of New Jersey. This article is adapted from the author's forthcoming book "Calling on Purpose: The Conversation Every Campus Must Have with Students" (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Clydesdale met two students, James and Tracy, during their senior year of college, when his…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Campuses
Klein, Phil; Fatima, Munazza; McEwen, Lindsey; Moser, Susanne C.; Schmidt, Deanna; Zupan, Sandra – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2011
University-community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative nature, spatial perspectives and analytic approaches, and its attention to social and environmental…
Descriptors: Geography, College Faculty, Universities, School Community Relationship
Katsinas, Stephen G. – Community College Review, 2008
Raymond J. Young (1923-2007) played a key role in the post-World War II development of community colleges in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere. This article describes his scholarly and professional contributions in developing "bottom-up," grassroots citizen's participatory studies that led to the establishment of 60 community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Change Agents, Community Action, Community Development
Anderson, Stuart – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Building the research capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector is a key concern for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). To assist with this objective, NCVER supports an academic scholarship program, whereby VET practitioners are sponsored to undertake university study at honours', master's or…
Descriptors: Health Services, Community Development, Scholarships, Vocational Education
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