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Baker, Vicki L.; Walling, Carrie Booth – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2023
Employing an institutional case study approach, this manuscript features two high-impact learning opportunities open to Albion College students who seek to contribute to solving real-world problems in collaboration with local and surrounding communities: Albion College Community Collaborative (AC3) and Human Rights Lab. The programmatic approach…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Higher Education, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams Ed.; Hana Huskic Ed.; Christina M. Noto Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
This timely book features rich examples of students and teachers, defined as learning partners, disrupting hierarchy in education by collaborating on social change projects. At the book's core is Paulo Freire's theorization of students and teachers working together toward co-liberation. Co-written by learning partners, each chapter in this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Power Structure, Social Change, Teacher Student Relationship
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2023
In today's interconnected world, many career fields--such as diplomacy, national security, and business--need individuals with knowledge about world languages and cultures. To address these areas of needed expertise--both at the federal level as well as in the education, business, and nonprofit sectors--the Higher Education Act of 1965, as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Employment Potential, Grants
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Friedman, Jonathan Z.; Miller-Idriss, Cynthia – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Existing studies of the internationalization of higher education have detailed the broad contours of change in the new "global" era, but they have told us much less about the individuals and processes underpinning these transformations. Moreover, they tend to treat internationalization as a recent or new phenomenon. There have been prior…
Descriptors: Area Studies, International Education, Higher Education, College Faculty
Dirks, Nicholas B. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
No one doubts that globalization is one of the most important trends of today. As American universities expand their global footprint with branch campuses in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and elsewhere, many faculty are concerned about oppressive governance, human-rights violations, and lack of academic freedom abroad. Meanwhile administrators grapple…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Higher Education, Area Studies
Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The American Overseas Research Centers Program provides grants to overseas research centers that are consortia of U.S. institutions of higher education to enable the centers to promote postgraduate research, exchanges, and area studies. Eligible applicants are those consortia of U.S. institutions of higher education centers that: (1) Receive more…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Area Studies, Nonprofit Organizations
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Keatley, Catharine – Learning Languages, 2004
In this paper, the authors review all the Federal programs that support, at least partially, foreign language education for non-government language students, and they calculated the maximum amount that these programs spend on foreign language education. The Department of Education (ED) receives the most funding for these projects with total…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Resource Centers, Budgets, Expenditures