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Gavin Moodie; Leesa Wheelahan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper argues that colleges anchor their communities by developing knowledge and skills within their region; establishing links and exchanges outside the region; contributing to civic, political, cultural, and social activities and networks in their region; developing facilities and amenities used by the community; and, contributing to their…
Descriptors: College Role, School Community Relationship, Postsecondary Education, Cooperation
Nicky Denison; Les Newby; Peter Mackreth; Peter R. H. Slee – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
The Leeds Anchor Network (or system) was established in 2017 with eight founder organizations. In 2024, membership was 14 and represented 1 in 7 of the Leeds city workforce. Leeds Beckett University is a founding member. This paper explains how the system originated and developed, the role Leeds Beckett University has played in that process, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Todd Swanstrom; Ifeanyi Ukpabi; Elaina Johns-Wolfe – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Anchor movements rest on the premise that people- and place-based initiatives can be mutually reinforcing. The community development movement, however, has been haunted for years by the people-place dilemma -- the idea that efforts to help people harm efforts to uplift places and vice versa. Most of the literature on the anchor strategy has…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education
Williams, Ronald C.; Klugh, Elgin L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
The legacy of deindustrialization and associated underemployment continues to plague many former industrial communities. In these spaces, universities serve as anchors providing gateways for individual economic empowerment, and as "brain centers" charged with generating solutions for societal problems. This paper explores the development…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Urban Renewal, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship
Maricopa Community Colleges, 2019
This report provides an annual update on metrics related to the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) Governing Board Outcomes for University and Transfer Education, Workforce and Economic Development, Developmental Education, and Community Development and Global and Civic Engagement. While this report necessarily looks back in time…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, College Transfer Students, Labor Force Development
Maricopa Community Colleges, 2018
This Governing Board Monitoring Report utilizes the Board outcome metrics to gauge institutional effectiveness in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD). Outcomes for University Transfer Education and General Education, Workforce and Economic Development, Developmental Education, and Community Development and Global and Civic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, College Transfer Students, Labor Force Development
Hindley, Barbara – Boston Foundation, 2016
In the fall of 2009, the Boston Foundation announced a new strategic framework, "Thriving People, Vibrant Places", to guide much of its work for the next five years. The framework had its roots in a larger strategic direction first taken by the Foundation's Board of Directors in 2001. At that time, the Board believed the Boston…
Descriptors: Social Change, Community Development, Grants, Citizenship
Maricopa Community Colleges, 2017
This Governing Board Monitoring Report utilizes the Board outcome metrics to gauge institutional effectiveness in the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD). It examines outcomes in the areas of university and transfer education, workforce and economic development, developmental education, community development, and civic and global…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, College Transfer Students, Labor Force Development
Lebeau, Yann; Bennion, Alice – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The paper explores two universities' strategies of impact and engagement and their perceptions by local economic and policy stakeholders in a post-industrial city of Scotland. The concept of structural embeddedness is used to unpack the logics and repertoires of action of local universities and to relate discourses and actions to the nature and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Role, School Community Relationship
Office of University Partnerships, 2013
When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established the Office of University Partnerships (OUP) in 1994, it decided that one of the new office's goals would be to "create the next generation of urban scholars and encourage them to focus their work on housing and community development policy." HUD already had a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Grants, Doctoral Dissertations, Urban Planning
Revitalizing South Memphis through an Interdisciplinary Community-University Development Partnership
Lambert-Pennington, Katherine; Reardon, Kenneth M.; Robinson, Kenneth S. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2011
This article reviews the unique opportunities and challenges related to establishing and maintaining a long-term community-university development partnership in a historic African American community. It highlights the significant benefits and costs generated by an interdisciplinary community development assistance project undertaken by a community…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, African American Community, School Community Relationship
Betiang, Liwhu – Research in Drama Education, 2010
About 60% of Nigerians live in rural areas with poor access roads and health facilities, near-absent communication media, unemployment, alienation and disempowerment by the political leadership. This scenario has excluded the rural Nigerian from meaningful participation in development action. A bottom-up participatory approach to…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Environmental Education, Earth Science, Health Facilities
Walker, Judith – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
This paper examines a recent government initiative aimed at raising adult literacy levels across the Canadian province of British Columbia by 2010. Through analysis of policy documents and interviews conducted with policymakers, analysts, researchers and practitioners, the author argues that the current focus on adult literacy in British Columbia…
Descriptors: Community Development, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Vaade, Elizabeth Stransky – Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (NJ3), 2010
The federal and state governments are placing greater emphasis on postsecondary attainment while concerns about rising college costs for students and families surge. Both groups are calling on institutions to do more to help improve student access and achievement rates. Further, recent research and policy have put pressure on institutions to admit…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Educational Attainment, Access to Education
Franklin, Nancy E. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
At a time when many regions are grappling with economic challenges and universities are struggling to demonstrate their public value, the question of how regions and universities might partner effectively begs to be addressed. This qualitative case study examines the engagement of six land-grant institutions in regions not proximate to their…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Outreach Programs, Land Grant Universities