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Building Community through Mentoring Adult Learners
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Plante, Jarrad; Truitt, Joshua – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2016
The Volunteer UCF Community Connectors and Community Builders Program provides a connection between students and their community. The goal is to develop meaningful service opportunities for UCF students that contribute measurable results and systemic change through capacity building among adult learners. The ongoing, sustainable service experience…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Mentors, Capacity Building, Internship Programs
Houston Real Men Read: What Was the Experience of Mentors during the Sixth Year of the Program, 2014? Evaluation Report. Volume 8, Issue 1
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Muñiz, Deborah L. – Houston Independent School District, 2014
Houston Real Men Read is chaired by Texas Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board Trustee Paula M. Harris. Houston Real Men Read is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The program…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, School Community Programs, Grade 2
Houston Real Men Read: What Was the Experience of Mentors and Students during the Fifth Year of the Real Men Read Program, 2013? Evaluation Brief. Volume 7, Issue 2
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Muñiz, Deborah L. – Houston Independent School District, 2013
Houston Real Men Read, chaired by Texas District XIII Senator Rodney Ellis and spearheaded by Houston Independent School District (HISD) IV Board Trustee Paula M. Harris, is a mentoring program in which men from the Houston community committed one hour of their time, once a month, to read to second, fifth, and seventh-grade students. The reading…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, School Community Programs, Grade 2
Learning from Mentors.
Hishinuma, Earl S.; And Others – Kamehameha Journal of Education, 1994
One Hawaiian school, which serves gifted and dyslexic students, created the Mentorship Program for high school students and certain students in grades 5-8. The program sends students into the community with mentors experienced in various fields, teaching them real world skills in real world environments. Evaluation shows that everyone in the…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Involvement, Dyslexia, Education Work Relationship
A Hospital/School Science Fair Mentoring Program for Middle School Students.
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Torres, B.; Harris, R. F.; Lockwood, D.; Johnson, J.; Mirabal, R.; Wells, D. T.; Pacheco, M.; Soussou, H.; Robb, F.; Weissman, G. Kuhn; Gwosdow, A. R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 1997
Describes the Science Fair Mentoring Program, one of the Science Connection programs of the Massachusetts General Hospital/James P. Timilty Middle School Partnership. This program is designed to enhance middle school science education, inform urban early adolescents about professions in the health field, and encourage them to pursue postsecondary…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Intermediate Grades
Using Community Adults as Advocates or Mentors for At-Risk Middle School Students: A Two-Year Evaluation of Project RAISE.
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McPartland, James M.; Nettles, Saundra Murray – American Journal of Education, 1991
Evaluation after two years of Project RAISE, a multifaceted program with seven community sponsors in the large Baltimore (Maryland) school district, indicates the effectiveness of using community adults as advocates and mentors in improving student attendance and some report card grades, but not promotion rates or standardized test scores. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Attendance, Child Advocacy
Mount St. Mary's College. Exemplars.
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Iannozzi, Maria – 1998
This report describes the efforts of Mount St. Mary's College (California) to extend the benefits of a strong, traditional baccalaureate program to an underserved population of women in an urban region, including substantial numbers of minority and first-generation college students. To help realize its service mission and increase access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Community Colleges, Community Involvement