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Karp, Melinda Mechur; Lundy-Wagner, Valerie – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015
"Collective impact" is a new place-based model of educational and social intervention that aims to shift responsibility for improvement in outcomes from individual organizations to entire systems that affect the lives of people in a particular location. CCRC's "Corridors of College Success Series" provides insights into…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Intervention, Community Action, Community Programs
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Zinger, Lana; Sinclair, Alicia – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
Service learning integrates academic learning and relevant community service with classroom instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal civic responsibility. Through a grant, community college students were provided with grocery store vouchers to purchase unfamiliar, healthy foods. Students were taken on an educational…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Colleges, College Students
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American Indian Quarterly, 2003
In 1977 a group of urban American Indian organizations got together to protest the leveling of rental housing for urban renewal; then they learned that a community college was going up to replace that housing, right in the middle of the Indian community. Realizing the opportunities for jobs, education, and training, the community leaders decided…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Renewal, Urban American Indians, American Indian Education