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Encouraging College Student Democratic Engagement through a Collaborative Voter Mobilization Project
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McGowan-Kirsch, Angela M. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2021
Drawing on challenges I experienced when teaching a political communication course, I designed an upper-level undergraduate course with the objective of developing students' civic competence and democratic engagement. The major class assignment, which is the focal point of this best practices essay, was a four-step collaborative voter mobilization…
Descriptors: College Students, Citizen Participation, Undergraduate Students, Citizenship Education
Preparing Global Citizens
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Roberts, Dennis C.; Welch, Lucas; Al-Khanji, Khalid – Journal of College and Character, 2013
Global citizens are those who are aware of, demonstrate respect for, and are comfortable engaging across cultural boundaries. This article explores why preparing global citizens is important and how positive psychology can inform our understanding of those who engage comfortably in today's complicated world. Soliya's Connect program is described…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Educational Needs
Globalizing Online Learning: Exploring Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Domestic Violence in an International Classroom
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Peterka-Benton, Daniela; Benton, Bond – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The construction of a successful online collaboration between distinct cultural groups requires an informed cultural awareness. This is the exploration of such an online collaboration between American and Turkish Students. The focus of the shared student interaction was the concept of corporate social responsibility. As the concept is enacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
Methods and Models for Museum Learning at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
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Wyman, Sarah Mead; Waldo, Jennifer Turner; Doherty, Dennis – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2016
Recent education policy designed to promote arts education tends to focus on how such curriculum supports "skills for innovation" required for success in the global economy. Emphasis on the transfer of arts-based learning to professional innovation and achievement, a dynamic that is difficult to determine, can undermine the value of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Museums, State Universities, College Curriculum
Service-Learning: A Tool to Develop Employment Competencies for College Students
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Ramson, Amy J. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2014
College students will face a workplace transformed even from the one that existed five years ago. Public and private organizations presently require employees to possess highly developed core competencies. This shift in expectations, exacerbated by high unemployment among recent college graduates, has made accountability a hot issue for higher…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Competency Based Education, Career Readiness
Fountain of Knowledge: IR Collaboration for Effective Change. [Proceedings of the] Annual NEAIR Conference (37th, Saratoga Springs, New York, November 13-16, 2010)
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Frederick, Beth, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
The NEAIR 2010 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Saratoga Springs, New York conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Research: A Model for the Successful Assessment of Students' College Experience (Michael N. Christakis and Joel D. Bloom); (2) Direct…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services, Cooperation, College Students