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Abukari, Abdulai; Corner, Trevor – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: Higher education is increasingly being scrutinised and discourse centred on its usefulness to stakeholders. In 1992, the University for Development Studies (UDS) was established in Northern Ghana with a mission to engage with local communities to develop the area. This paper aims to understand the quality perspective of the university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Marthers, Paul – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
During her presidency (1988-2001), Claire Gaudiani reconnected Connecticut College with New London, the college's home city, whose citizens through grassroots fund raising and donations of land established the college in 1911. Through an emphasis on service-learning, community outreach, and an education not for oneself as well as economic…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Service Learning, School Community Programs, Community Development
Bertram, Charles L.; And Others – 1976
Purpose of the Fort Gay-Thompson Urban/Rural project was to combine the efforts of school and community persons so as to provide a more effective educational program for the west central section of Wayne County, West Virginia. To date, the school-community planning process had resulted in needs assessment and career education programs,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Community Education, Community Involvement