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Family Math Nights: A Tool for Fostering Home, School, and University Connections
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Nantais, Michael; Skyhar, Candy L. – Online Submission, 2020
Numeracy has increasingly become a topic of importance and concern in our contemporary society. Student success in numeracy is influenced by the positive attitudes and values they hold about mathematics. This outreach project sought to foster the development of such attitudes and values through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Family Programs
Using an Engaged Scholarship Symposium to Change Perceptions: Evaluation Results
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Varkey, Sapna; Smirnova, Olga; Gallien, Tara Lee – Journal of Extension, 2018
Engaged scholarship (ES) entails a symbiotic relationship between the community and the university. This article reports results from an evaluation of an ES symposium Eastern Carolina University held to increase awareness of ES as a means for integrating research, teaching, and service and to potentially change unfavorable perceptions about ES…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Attitude Change, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs
Expanding Roles and Resources: Assessing the Collaboration between Florida Atlantic University Libraries and Taras Oceanographic Foundation
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Arrieta, Diane; Brunnick, Barbara; Plocharczyk, Leah – Public Services Quarterly, 2015
As academic libraries struggle to remain relevant when technological advancements and electronic resources threaten to make them obsolete, libraries are learning to re-invent themselves by molding and adapting staff skills to cultivate innovative outreach programs. The Science Outreach Committee of the John D. MacArthur Campus library at Florida…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Academic Libraries, Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation
Reducing the Boundaries between the Community and the Academy with a Full-Time Service Learning Capstone
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Ballard, Andy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to share my experiences as the instructor of a full-time, single semester, service-learning capstone course. In this innovative course students already volunteering in the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization work in teams to identify community needs and address them using their business skills and knowledge…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Outreach Programs
The Outreach College. Design and Implementation.
Kinneavy, Tom – 1989
This document describes a project conducted by Britain's Further Education Unit, at Cleveland Technical College in Redcar, England, to deliver adult education for the unemployed in local community facilities. The report is intended to help college administrators who are interested in delivering college programs for adults on an outreach basis. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Community Involvement
Teaching for Cultural Fluency. The Center for Cultural Fluency: A Model Multicultural Resource Center. Celebrating Cultural Diversity in Higher Education Series.
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Sawchuk, Mariette T.; Taylor, Nancy S.; Perry, Jill, Ed. – 1997
This document is intended to be a resource to others who would like to emulate the programs and resources of the Center for Cultural Fluency, a center for K-12 teachers trying to address cultural diversity in the classrooms. The Center is a multicultural teacher resource facility offering classroom materials and workshops to assist teachers and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences