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Direct linkKatelyn Barney; Hayley Williams – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Most universities run outreach camps that bring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school students onto university campuses to demystify university and build and sustain student engagement with university. However, there are varying perspectives on how 'success' should be defined and measured in relation to these programs. The staff who run…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Success, Outreach Programs, Indigenous Populations
Patrick Wilson; Pratibha Varma-Nelson – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
The STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI) is a unique independent interdisciplinary unit at Indiana University Indianapolis. An internal evaluation survey was developed to properly assess the strengths and weaknesses of the institute. The design of the survey followed aligning the institute's mission with the programming…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Evaluation, Institutes (Training Programs), Science Programs
Download full textRamirez, Veronica Esposo – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
This article examines how university-community outreach was an enabler for integral human development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative information about the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) Community Outreach Program (COP) is described and analyzed. In particular, the Kabagis Aeta Projects succeeded in its initial…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Outreach Programs, Universities, Individual Development
Lynton, Ernest A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
New knowledge is created in the course of the application of outreach. Each complex problem in the real world is likely to have unique aspects and thus it requires some modification of standard approaches. Hence, each engagement in outreach is likely to have an element of inquiry and discovery, leading to new knowledge. The flow of knowledge is in…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Program Evaluation, Performance, School Community Relationship
Bourne, Katherine; Wilkinson, Clare; Bancroft, Mandy; Robinson, Gareth; Noel, Catherine; Varadi, Aniko; Watson, Melanie; Foster, Maxine; Lewis, Debbie – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
The Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol has been piloting a schools outreach project entitled BoxED (EDucation in a Box) since 2015. School activities are inspired from the research and teaching of our academics, and the BoxED team have developed a series of hour long activities, linked to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outreach Programs, Learning Activities, Universities
Custer, Nic – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
This paper focuses on how the University of Michigan-Flint's Innovation Incubator supports emerging for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations through programming, business plan development, and ongoing mentorship. The Incubator is especially interested in supporting start-ups that address key social issues in the surrounding community,…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Social Problems
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
McKenzie, Stephen; Droste, Nic; Hickford, Salli; Miller, Peter – Youth Studies Australia, 2011
Deakin University's RuralLife alcohol and other drug (AOD) research initiative was commissioned by St John of God Hospital and Barwon Youth to evaluate their Youth Engagement Program (YEP), which is an AOD harm-reduction program intended to engage young people with AOD problems in a region that has a higher-than-state-average proportion of young…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Youth, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Christie, Christina A.; Alkin, Marvin C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2003
Program theory plays a prominent role in many evaluations, not only in theory-driven evaluations. This paper presents a case study of the process of developing and refining a program's theory within a user-oriented evaluation. In user-oriented (or utilization-focused) evaluations, primary users can play a role in defining their own program theory.…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Evaluation Methods, Case Studies, Program Evaluation
Katzenmeyer, Conrad; Lawrenz, Frances – 1978
A study of the Women in Science Program, particularly the Career Facilitation Projects, was conducted through on-site visits to assess initial project functioning to determine whether alterations in the program guidelines should be recommended. Based on the individual on-site reports, findings and conclusions are presented, participants and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Exploration, Colleges
Solinger, Janet W., Ed. – 1990
This collection of papers presents a variety of approaches used to make museums more educative in their communities. Titles and authors of papers included are: "Museums and Universities: Choices" (Janet Solinger); "The Adult Learner in the Museum" (David Carr); "Formal and Informal Education Programs in Museums" (Arnold Gussin); "Public Education:…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Community Education, Continuing Education, Educational Change
Misanchuk, Earl R.; Shipley, Ken G. – 1977
A survey was conducted to explore the potential of weekly newspapers for information dissemination in rural Saskatchewan. Articles about engineering research of relevance to the community had been mailed to eighty weekly Canadian newspapers on a free-choice basis over a ten month period. A random sample of 1,020 subscribers selected from the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Development, Community Education, Educational Research
Sugano, Dean – 1993
This report examines the efforts of the University of Hawaii system to adopt and implement outreach programs to residents of areas without four-year and graduate-level educational institutions. Data on current programs were gathered through a questionnaire sent to officials at the University of Hawaii's three university and seven community-college…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Role, Colleges, Community Colleges
Schlough, Charles; Streeter, Deborah H. – 1999
In 1997-1999, the Department of Agriculture, Resource, and Managerial Economics of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences conducted an entrepreneurship education and outreach program that was based on the Premier FastTrac Curriculum, which is a model delivery tool for entrepreneurship education. In 1997-1998, the program was…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business Education, College Programs, Delivery Systems
