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Mitchell, Peter T.; Levine, Myron A. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 2001
Describes the development of a new transformational vision for Albion College in Michigan, which led to a community envisioning process off campus. The result was a new city-college partnership designed to promote the development of the city of Albion as "The Smart Community." (EV)
Descriptors: Community Development, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, School Community Relationship

Keough, Noel – Community Development Journal, 1998
Principles for participatory community development are as follows: humility and respect; power of local knowledge; democratic practice; diverse ways of knowing; sustainability; reality before theory; uncertainty; relativity of time and efficiency; holistic approach; and decisions rooted in the community. (SK)
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Role, Decision Making

Rich, Michael J.; Giles, Michael W.; Stern, Emily – Urban Affairs Reviews, 2001
Surveyed city officials and executive directors of nonprofit organizations nationwide regarding how community-based organizations (CBOs) and city governments collaborated to reduce poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. Although city-CBO collaboration was fairly widespread, in most communities the collaboration was rather "thin," and…
Descriptors: City Government, Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Neighborhood Improvement
Zacharakis, Jeff; Flora, Jan – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2005
This case study research is based on a 3-year project (1996-1999) in which Iowa State University Extension developed and implemented a long-term community development project based on strengthening social capital using participatory research. The results of this mapping were initially interpreted as indicating a high level of social capital, but…
Descriptors: Leadership, Social Capital, Participatory Research, Extension Education
Galster, George; Temkin, Kenneth; Walker, Chris; Sawyer, Noah – Evaluation Review, 2004
The authors contribute to the development of empirical methods for measuring the impacts of place-based local development strategies by introducing the adjusted interrupted time-series (AITS) approach. It estimates a more precise counterfactual scenario, thus offering a stronger basis for drawing causal inferences about impacts. The authors…
Descriptors: Community Development, Evaluation Methods, Inferences, Housing
Anderson, Stuart – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Building the research capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector is a key concern for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). To assist with this objective, NCVER supports an academic scholarship program, whereby VET practitioners are sponsored to undertake university study at honours', master's or…
Descriptors: Health Services, Community Development, Scholarships, Vocational Education
Williams, Sue E.; Daugherty, Renée A.; Powers, Ronald C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
A contemporary vision for a democracy is that it involves those who wish to be involved; the highest expression of human rationality becomes reality when ordinary people speak and reason together on issues of common concern. Public deliberation is a structured dialogue around a challenging public problem. It is a means through which citizens can…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Policy Formation, Democracy, Citizen Participation
Nogueira, Marcia Pompeo – Research in Drama Education, 2006
This paper analyses a community theatre project initiated in 1991 in Ratones, a community in Southern Brazil. It began as an extension project of the State University of Santa Catarina and became an independent project coordinated by former participants, still in collaboration with the university. Aiming to evaluate the benefits of this theatre…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Community Programs
Fluharty, Charles; Scaggs, Bill – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
Rural communities have fewer financial resources, making the community colleges located in these regions central to economic development. This chapter reviews the importance of recognizing the rural differential via policy changes and offers strategies to close the resource gap between rural and nonrural community colleges.
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Economic Development, Community Development, Community Colleges
Zhanlong, Ba – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Education in schools that serve nationalities consisting of comparatively small populations is currently a focal topic in relation to academia and international organizations. The issue of cultural choice in the schools--whether the function of education in these schools is ultimately dissemination of modern mainstream culture or transmission of…
Descriptors: Community Development, International Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Anthropology
Design and Environment, 1975
Descriptors: Community Development, Dropouts, Environment, Land Use
Lackey, Alvin S. – 1984
A sampling of definitions indicates a certain amount of ambiguity and confusion about development and how it differs from other concepts such as growth and change. Any attempt to clarify this concept should begin initially with identification of the essential meaning of the term and then consideration of its characteristics and how it differs from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Definitions, Development
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1989
The background, organization, and recent publications of the Southern Rural Development Center (SDRC) are presented in this annual report of the 1988-1989 fiscal year. Forty-three activities and projects are briefly described, including conferences, meetings, and workshops sponsored and co-sponsored by SDRC. Four regional task forces are…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Regional Programs, Rural Areas
Kovach, Ron; McDonald, Bill – 1990
The "pining" for a sense of community, for roots, for a connectedness to others is a basic need that is felt but not understood, that is desired but not practiced, in either college settings or the greater society. Thus, the prevalent rootlessness and transience that students arrive with at college (due to a highly mobile society) is never…
Descriptors: College Students, Colleges, Community, Community Development
Jackson, Melvin – 1987
This study investigated the historical development of the Gage Park community in Chicago, Illinois, including its population changes, education, income, racial composition, housing and crime. The results indicate that the community, which in the past has been primarily composed of persons of German ancestry, has experienced an influx of Latino and…
Descriptors: Community, Community Change, Community Characteristics, Community Development