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Daniel T. Remley; Glennon Sweeney; Julie Fox; Laquore J. Meadows – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
Between 2000 and 2013, the suburbs in the country's largest metro areas saw their low-income population grow twice as fast as primary urban cities. In 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that poverty increased more sharply in suburbs than in urban and rural counties (Parker et al., 2018). The rise in suburban poverty coincides with an…
Descriptors: Suburbs, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Food
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Sterrett, Stephen A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
Urban universities are a key resource for municipal government, businesses, community organizations, and citizens to foster partnerships for successful renewal of distressed urban neighborhoods. From its experience over the past decade, the Ohio State University has created a successful model for engagement with its neighborhoods and the City of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Urban Universities, School Community Relationship, Educational Change
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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
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Maloney, Michael – Now and Then, 1997
Sponsored by Rural Action, an Ohio multicounty community development corporation, artist Geoff Schenkel involves Appalachian Ohio communities and schools in the creation of community murals. The projects counter Appalachian stereotypes and boost self-esteem and community revitalization. Includes photographs. (SAS)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Development, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education