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Jamie Daigle; Ashley Hall – Industry and Higher Education, 2025
At times, universities are charged with helping stimulate the local economy. This study considered how the supply chain management programs at a regional university could be modified in order to provide a positive impact on the economic development of the region. Through a mixed methods action research approach that incorporated a neural network,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Supply and Demand, Information Management, Universities
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Emily Yeager; Beth Bee; Anjalee Hou; Taylor Cash; Kelsi Dew; Daniel Dickerson; Kelly White-Singleton; Michael Schilling; Sierra Jones – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Through a multistakeholder partnership, this research aims to catalyze the development of a blue economy corridor (BEC) through community-based asset mapping in the eastern portion of the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in North Carolina, a geographic area predominated by physically and culturally rural landscapes. Underpinned by appreciative inquiry,…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Geographic Information Systems, Community Development
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Theophile Shyiramunda; Dmitri van den Bersselaar – International Review of Education, 2024
This article examines issues of local community development in Rwanda, building on the triple helix model proposed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff in the 1990s to draw insights from international perspectives. The authors favour an expanded quadruple helix model which includes the local community as a unit of analysis, alongside higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Higher Education, School Community Relationship
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Laura E. Martin; J. R. Love; Albert B. Nylander III – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2023
This article contributes to the civic identity development literature by exploring how a scholarship program emphasizing entrepreneurship and economic revitalization can facilitate engagement across difference in pursuit of shared anti-poverty commitments. Drawing on theories of entrepreneurial action, civic identity development literature, and a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Scholarship, Economic Development, Poverty
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Gökhan Savas; Nihan Demirkasimoglu – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the effects of school- and teacher-related factors on teachers' professional learning. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was employed using the data collected from 810 teachers in Türkiye. Path analysis was used to examine the structural relationships among variables, including instructional leadership,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Educational Environment
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Rossi, Federica; Goglio, Valentina – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Satellite university campuses -- whereby established universities decentralise part of their activities, often to areas previously lacking a university -- contribute to the diversification of university systems. While satellite campuses, due to their small scale and limited resources, might perform some activities less efficiently than their…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Economic Development, Higher Education, Administrative Organization
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Covelli, Bonnie J.; Morrissette, Stephen G.; Lindee, Carol A.; Mercier, Ryan – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2020
The University of St. Francis's College of Business and Health Administration operates a campus business incubator for student and community entrepreneurs. The business incubator is an innovative use of space that supports the economic development of the region and entrepreneurial education that includes for-credit and non-credit programming.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Business Administration Education, School Business Relationship
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Huda, Kazi Nazmul; Hossain, Arman; Ferdous, Maquesurat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
The main purpose of this research is to establish a link between Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) and the role of private universities to show how EDP helps the performance of common roles of a university. Here, qualitative research methodology has been used to investigate the contribution of EDP of Southern University Bangladesh (SUB)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Private Colleges, Intervention
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Raniga, Tanusha – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: Nation states in both the Global North and South have debated the human rights and liberatory function as opposed to the dependency and economically viable function of social protection policy. This article is an attempt to advance empirical knowledge in the field of social protection policy and poverty alleviation. Method: Using…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Cooperatives, Females, Foreign Countries
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Hatcher, William; Hammond, Augustine; Meares, Wesley L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2020
The relationship between institutions of higher learning and their local communities is often described as "town and gown." Few studies examine how these partnerships affect state and local public administration and local economic development. We analyzed data from the 2014 Economic Development Survey carried out by the International…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Partnerships in Education, Strategic Planning
Miller-Adams, Michelle; Hershbein, Brad J.; Bartik, Timothy J.; Timmeney, Bridget; Meyers, Amy; Adams, Lee – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2019
In 2018, the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research launched a major research initiative into place-based strategies for local prosperity. Place-based strategies are nothing new. For decades, cities, regions, and states have sought to increase the number of jobs available to residents, expand their tax base, and promote amenities and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Job Development, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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Mak, Jennifer Y.; Cheung, Siu-Yin; King, Carina C.; Lam, Eddie T. C. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
There have been extensive studies of local residents' perception and reaction to the impacts of mega events. However, there is limited empirical research on the social impacts that shape foreign attitudes toward the host country. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Olympic Games Attitude Scale (OGAS) to examine viewers'…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Athletics, Test Validity, Factor Analysis
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Awan, Maqbool Ahmad – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
This article highlights the vibrant role of the Muslim Anjumans in activating the educational revival in the colonial Punjab. The latter half of the 19th century, particularly the decade 1880- 1890, witnessed the birth of several Muslim Anjumans (societies) in the Punjab province. These were, in fact, a product of growing political consciousness…
Descriptors: Muslims, Role, Foreign Policy, Educational History
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Bruna, Katherine Richardson; McNelly, Carla A.; Rongerude, Jane – Ethnography and Education, 2020
Linguists understand metaphors to be shortcuts to an individual's tacit knowledge about the world. As ethnographers and planners building a university-school partnership and seeking to understand residents' perceptions of their urban neighbourhood, attention to use of metaphor allowed us insight into an insider's mental model of who is in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Place Based Education, College School Cooperation, Needs Assessment
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Aderogba, Kofo A. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
Learning to read and write is a fundamental right. Yet official figures by the National Bureau of Statistics indicate that 38% of African adults are illiterate. This study ascertained the level of literacy of Igbo-Ora community and the effects on community development. Mixed methods of survey were applied. A questionnaire of 32 items was used to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Economic Development, Agricultural Occupations, Illiteracy
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