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Linnea Harvey; Audrey E. H. King; J. Shane Robinson; Tyson E. Ochsner; Paul Weckler; Mark Woodring – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Rural communities face incredible challenges and emerging opportunities. Land-grant universities are well-positioned to assist by developing new approaches to inspire university students to become civically engaged, rural community members. With this aim, the Rural Scholars program at Oklahoma State University was developed as an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, College Students, School Community Relationship, Land Grant Universities
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London, Rebecca A.; Glass, Ronald David; Chang, Ethan; Sabati, Sheeva; Nojan, Saugher – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
This study examines the ethics and politics of knowledge across 15 distinctive community-engaged research projects. We focus our analysis on interviews with community partners and consider their perceptions of research, academic research partners, motivations for partnering, and the benefits and challenges of community-engaged research. We…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Research, Community Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Kelli Sanderson; Kristin Powers; Maria Virginia Cornejo Guevara – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2022
Inclusive postsecondary education (PSE) programs at institutes of higher education offer a variety of benefits to students with intellectual disabilities (ID). Although the number of these programs has grown in recent years, many students -- particularly those from diverse backgrounds -- remain underserved. This study investigated the perceptions…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Higher Education, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Eagen, Carol S.; And Others – 1981
One of 10 documents developed for preschool programs for handicapped children, the manual focuses on a transdisciplinary approach to developing community awareness and interagency cooperation. The program provides concrete methods for helping an agency understand a community's character and develop a tailor made awareness program. An introductory…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Disabilities
Hennigh, Lawrence – 1979
The 5-year Experimental Schools (ES) project in the South Umpqua, Oregon, school district was observed from a "participant observer" point of view. The South Umpqua district served four rural communities in which residents were adaptable to economic change, accepting of newcomers, and very involved in their communities as decision makers…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Cooperation, Conflict
Southeast Missouri State Univ., Cape Girardeau. – 1981
The Work Again Project entailed development and implementation of a center to place adults aged 58 and above into a variety of paid and volunteer positions, investigation of the effect of such placement on the self-image of participants, and education of the community as to the working needs of older adults. A project staff consisting of five…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Community Attitudes, Continuing Education, Educational Needs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1980
Intended for use by council and staff members as well as individuals in communities that are considering forming or joining an education work council, this report discusses the nature, function, and growth and development of work education councils and examines the collaborative processes that councils engage in. The education and work council…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement