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Groark, Christina J.; McCall, Robert B. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
The University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development (OCD) has practiced university-community engagement activities for 30 years. This has included hundreds of specific projects conducted with community partners, all funded by outside grants. Based on our experience, we describe some lessons learned regarding the operation of a…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Colleges, Child Development, Leadership
Noel, Jana; Earwicker, David P. – New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2014
The Community Engagement Classification is an elective classification offered by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In order to be classified, campuses provide evidence documenting engagement through an application process. Campuses were classified in 2006, 2008, and 2010, and will be classified on five-year cycles from 2015…
Descriptors: Classification, Colleges, School Community Relationship, Academic Degrees
Smith, Kurt B., Ed. – Connections, 1980
Programs that link education and work and implications of the 1980 Higher Education Act for the expansion of work-learning opportunities are considered in this bulletin. Considerations for designing and operating a program combining academic learning with work experience is discussed by Yolaine Armand of the College for Human Services in New York…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Battistoni, Richard M., Ed.; Hudson, William E., Ed. – 1997
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs service learning and the academic disciplines. This collection of essays focuses on the use of service learning as an approach to teaching and learning in political science. Following an Introduction by Richard M. Battistoni and William E. Hudson, the four essays in Part 1, "Service-Learning as…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights
Iannozzi, Maria – 1998
This report describes the efforts of Mount St. Mary's College (California) to extend the benefits of a strong, traditional baccalaureate program to an underserved population of women in an urban region, including substantial numbers of minority and first-generation college students. To help realize its service mission and increase access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Community Colleges, Community Involvement