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Katherine Hartmann; Michael J. Martin – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
The mission of Land Grant Institutions (LGIs) and Cooperative Extension has always included the concepts of educational access and inclusion, but not all communities have equitable access to Extension programs. Specifically, Extension is currently only serving about 10% of Indigenous communities. Given the complicated history of Indigenous land…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Access to Education, Indigenous Populations
Person, Ann; Bruch, Julie; Goble, Lisbeth; Severn, Veronica; Hong, Ashley – Mathematica, 2020
Lumina Foundation seeks to increase the proportion of Americans who hold a postsecondary credential to 60 percent by 2025, across all racial, ethnic, immigration, and income groups. Recognizing that this goal cannot be achieved through a focus on traditional-age college students alone, Lumina launched the Adult Promise initiative in 2017. Between…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Students, State Policy
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Custer, Bradley D. – Journal of College Access, 2018
Student affairs professionals are concerned about the access and success of diverse groups of students in U.S. higher education, but systematic barriers continue to confront one understudied population of college students. Justice-involved people--those who have experienced the criminal justice system--face unique challenges on our campuses but…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Students, Delinquency, Crime
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Fry, Sara W.; O'Brien, Jason – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
Teacher educators have an obligation to prepare preservice teachers with the skills and dispositions necessary to promote a socially just world. Yet the results of this study uncovered that the majority of elementary preservice teachers in a national sample (N = 846) have a simplistic perception of good citizenship consistent with what Westheimer…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Citizenship Education, Social Justice