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Thomas J. Capretta; Jingyang Zhang; Eric M. Anderman; Barbara J. Boone – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Thomas J. Capretta, Jingyang (Max) Zhang, Eric M. Anderman, and Barbara J. Boone revisit Joyce Epstein's 1995 Kappan article on overlapping spheres of influence and family-school partnerships. They highlight one idea from the article that has been largely overlooked -- the role of student voice and leadership. To refocus researchers' and…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Student Empowerment
Gabriel D. Dunbar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between life design and student leadership development at Bowling Green State University. Life design is a creative problem-solving framework that empowers students to apply design thinking mindsets and methods in their own lives to creatively solve problems (Burnett & Evans, 2016).…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Student Development, Career Development
Aaron J. Giorgi; Anne E. McDaniel; M. Susie Whittington – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
Earning a bachelor's degree has been documented as a potential social equalizer in American society. Yet, it has also been documented that first-generation college students (FGCS) have incongruently accessed and earned college degrees. This phenomenon has potentially perpetuated life-long differences in social outcomes in American society. As…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Agricultural Education, Sense of Community, Success
Watkins, Sally R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Some 300 years after the founding of the first American institution of higher education, developing students into future leaders remains a central objective of contemporary colleges and universities (Astin, 1993; Johnson, 2000; Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 2007). In the modern university setting, a significant amount of leadership training and…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Professional Associations, College Students
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Broadhurst, Christopher J. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
This chapter explores how two student activists used their roles as student body presidents to lead their campuses to protest the Kent State Shootings in 1970. The administrative responses and their strategies for working with activists are also explored.
Descriptors: Social Change, Student Government, Activism, Student Role
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Corboy, John Trevor M.; Warner, Laura A.; Benge, Matt – Journal of Extension, 2019
Leadership development, service learning, place-based education, and economic revitalization are topics relevant to Extension. We performed an evaluation to determine whether a place-based leadership program in Clermont County, Ohio, helps students develop leadership skills and encourages their return to the community. Program evaluation data…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Leadership Training, Extension Education, High School Students
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Springer, Sarah I.; Moss, Lauren J.; Cinotti, Daniel; Land, Christy W. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2018
This consensual qualitative research (CQR) study explored the group leadership supervisory experiences of (n = 10) school counseling internship students. Findings suggest the importance of fostering group leader advocacy skills and the need to assess students' group leadership supervisory experiences during fieldwork placement. Implications for…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Training, Internship Programs, Counselor Educators
Alvarez-Breckenridge, Christopher – Trusteeship, 2010
Campuses with student trustees often see them as both an efficient way to get a student perspective on issues the board is dealing with and a way to use student trustees' active engagement with student organizations to explain board and administrative decisions to the student body. To maximize the contributions a student member can make on the…
Descriptors: Trustees, College Students, Higher Education, Governing Boards
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2013
Pacesetting high schools, middle grades schools and technology centers have changed classroom and other practices to prepare students to meet postsecondary requirements and rising workplace needs. The strategies include raising expectations, project-based learning, guidance and advisement, improving students' reading and writing skills,…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Effective Schools Research, Change Strategies, Career Readiness
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
Wood, George – Teaching Tolerance, 2010
Rural schools do not usually make people think of innovation or experimentation. In fact, many people view rural areas as being too traditional or complacent to blaze educational trails. But this author is fortunate to be principal of one rural school, Federal Hocking Middle and High School, that is not afraid to innovate. Federal Hocking is also…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Stereotypes, Principals, School Culture
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McGoey, Shane P. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to extend the research of Michael, Schwartz, and Balraj pertaining to presidential effectiveness. Faculty senate chairpersons, academic deans, senior-level institutional officers, and student leaders were surveyed in order to ascertain whether there was a relationship between stakeholders' perceptions and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Predictor Variables, Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis
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Harper, Shaun R. – About Campus, 2005
More than two-thirds of all African American males who begin college never finish. This and a legion of other discouraging facts about African American males are the usual headlines. Sharon Fries-Britt suggests that "the disproportionate focus on Black underachievement in the literature not only distorts the image of the community of Black…
Descriptors: African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Males, High Achievement