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Meg Landfried; Lindsay Bau Savelli; Brittany Nicole Price; Liz Chen; Dane Emmerling – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Training the next generation of public health practitioners to promote health equity requires public health graduate programs to cultivate students' skills in community partnership. The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) requires Master of Public Health (MPH) students to produce a high-quality written product as part of their…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Personnel, Access to Health Care, Graduate Study
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Amaresh, Sneha A.; Gámez, Raúl; LePrevost, Catherine E.; Lee, Joseph G. L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Research opportunities--in addition to culturally relevant programming, mentorship, professional development, and college funding--have been found to contribute to Latinx students' understanding, confidence, and awareness of research in college (Russell et al., 2007). While programs such as the Migrant Education Program and the College Assistance…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Student Attitudes
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Greiner, Jeff A. – Social Studies, 2016
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), in the state of North Carolina, has gone through considerable recent effort to revise, support, and assess their seventh-grade social studies curriculum in an effort to serve three goals: comply with the Common Core State Standards (Common Core), comply with the North Carolina Essential Standards…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Social Studies, Public Schools, Common Core State Standards
MDC, 2018
In every state in the South, the percentage of residents with bachelor's degrees or higher who were born outside the state exceed the percentage born in-state, reflecting their dependence on imported talent over building their own talent-development systems. In Virginia, the Southern state with the highest percentage of residents with a B.A. or…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Demography, Academic Achievement, Income
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change
Autry, George B.; Guillory, Ferrel – 1999
James B. Duke established the Duke Endowment in 1924. This document examines what the Carolinas have accomplished since that time--both through the endowment's investments and otherwise--and what remains to be achieved. The first chapter describes the Carolinas' of the 1920s. While the rest of the nation enjoyed economic prosperity, the rural…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
Winton, Pam, Ed.; Buyssee, Virginia, Ed.; Hambrick, Catherine, Ed. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2006
Although the FPG Child Development Institute's primary mission is to generate new knowledge, this research is in the service of a higher goal: child and family well being. This goal is distilled in their tag line: "Advancing knowledge, enhancing lives." This phrase is not just a tag line--it encapsulates 40 years of striving to be an…
Descriptors: Well Being, Social Change, Child Development, Institutional Mission
Anderson, Donald L. – 1999
Conventional anti-poverty efforts have failed because they have not created the structures for the poor to help themselves, and they are designed and controlled by people outside of the affected communities. Introduced in 1968 by the National Association of the Southern Poor, the Assembly is a non-political structure that organizes community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Organizations, Economically Disadvantaged
Foght, H. W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Until a few years ago the Southern States were considered in the main an agricultural section. More recently the advantageous location in respect to raw materials, minerals, water, and electric power of the South Atlantic States has occasioned an almost unprecedented growth in manufacturing industries. Particularly has the cotton manufacturing…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Child Labor, Labor Conditions, Finishing