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National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2023
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation's first federal nutrition education program for low-income populations. Without question, accelerating equity in programming has long been a priority of EFNEP. Historically underserved populations with limited financial resources are often people of color and at increased risk…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Foods Instruction, Nutrition, Food
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Mayfield-Johnson, Susan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Community health education does more than educate communities about health. In the most basic form, community health education seeks to enable citizens to assume responsibility for their own and their community's health through an understanding of their community's health problems and the societal influences that act upon them. Many community…
Descriptors: Health Services, Delivery Systems, Health Education, Health Promotion
Alexander, Brian Colson – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to provide an assessment of the involvement of Mississippi's community and junior colleges in intercollegiate athletics during the academic year 2007-2008. These data could assist community and junior college presidents, vice presidents residing over athletics, athletic directors, and other policy makers in their…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Student Participation, Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges
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Burnett, Jeanie – Childhood Education, 2005
Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 29, 2005. The author discusses the efforts she and other Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) colleagues made for the welfare of children who suffered from the storm. After her initial search for family, friends, and professional colleagues, she began trying…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Web Sites, Elementary Secondary Education, Natural Disasters
Hancock, Robert; Nauman, Anne; Fulwiler, John – Multicultural Education, 2007
Perhaps one of the worst disasters in United States history, Hurricane Katrina is expected to have a lasting impact on the economies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida with losses in the billions of dollars. Given that the economic foundation of the approximately 600 schools and libraries affected was far from ideal before the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Natural Disasters, Community Surveys, Mail Surveys
Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2006
This paper presents an interview with Douglas Brinkley, an award-winning author and historian and director of Tulane University's Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. His wide-ranging portfolio includes books on John Kerry and the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan and D-Day, Rosa Parks, Henry Ford, Dean Acheson and Jimmy Carter. He is…
Descriptors: Interviews, Authors, Historians, United States History