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West, Travis – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2023
Community engagement programs offer college students an opportunity to impact youth in rural, low-income communities. While in a rural setting where educational training and support is not abundant, college students learn about struggles that rural, low-income youth face in exploring and attending postsecondary education options. The Alternative…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Youth
Jacquez, Farrah – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
Within promotion processes, research universities traditionally place highest value on grant funding and peer reviewed publications. In contrast, community-engaged research tends to value community partnerships and direct community benefit. Community-engaged early career faculty can have difficulty negotiating the demands required for promotion…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, College Faculty, Background, Participatory Research
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Benson, Matthew C. – Journal of Extension, 2014
The study reported here examined Extension professionals' involvement in farm-to-school program activities. Results of an online survey distributed to eight state Extension systems indicate that on average, Extension professionals are involved with one farm to school program activity, with most supporting school or community garden programs.…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Online Surveys, School Community Programs
McHale, Tom – Technology & Learning, 2006
Few have the long-term experience with one-to-one computing that Cincinnati Country Day School has. The small, private, grade 5-12 institution in Indian Hills, Ohio, began its pioneering laptop program in 1996. With six years of practical experience under its belt, the school made the decision to begin transitioning to tablets in 2002, with an…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Technology Integration, Instructional Innovation, Program Effectiveness
Rahamin, Robert – 1997
A study investigated the perceptions of 78 special education teachers in Ohio about the implementation of a community-based, functional curriculum for students with severe disabilities. Teachers responded to a survey on their beliefs, perceptions about educational outcomes, levels of state and local support from educational agencies, how parents…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
Hexter, Holly – 1990
This paper describes state, institutional, and other community-based programs deemed exemplary (on the basis of design imperatives) for successful interventions to promote meaningful access of minority group youth to postsecondary education. The imperatives include early intervention, comprehensive and integrated intervention, intervention…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged