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Holton, Valerie L.; Early, Jennifer L.; Jettner, Jennifer F.; Shaw, Kathleen K. – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
As universities institutionalize a public mission, they seek strategies and opportunities to more deeply involve external stakeholders in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. These partnerships support universities in their efforts to generate new knowledge, educate the citizenry, and to improve the well-being of…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Urban Universities, Case Studies, Community Development
Beane, Rachel J.; Altermatt, Ellen R.; Iverson, Ellen R.; Macdonald, R. Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers' "Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing One's Career" has been offered annually since 1999. The five-day workshop with accompanying web resources employs a "whole faculty" approach to support geoscience faculty members during their…
Descriptors: Workshops, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Spears Johnson, Chaya R.; Kraemer Diaz, Anne E.; Arcury, Thomas A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) seeks to conduct relevant, sustainable research that is tailored to the needs of the communities with which it is engaged through equitable collaboration between community representatives and professional researchers. Like other participatory approaches to research and planning, CBPR has been…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Community Involvement, Research Projects, Qualitative Research
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
American public education policy and practice has long focused on what can be done to meet the academic needs of all students during the school day. Today, more families and students are facing challenges outside of school that affect student academic performance in classrooms. Challenges such as homelessness, food security, mental health and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Needs, Hunger, Wellness
Achieving the Dream, 2019
This Guide is designed to support the work of institutional cross-functional teams charged with strengthening adjunct faculty professional learning and institutional engagement. Each section shares key learnings from ATD's work with six Leader Colleges, including accomplishments in the form of new programs, services, or policies that can serve as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Faculty Development
Pitman, Lora; Payne, Brian K.; Vandecar-Burdin, Tancy; Thorbjornsen, Lenora – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2022
As the number of available cybersecurity jobs continues to grow, colleges strive to offer to their cybersecurity students an environment which will make them sufficiently prepared to enter the workforce after graduation. This paper explores the academic and professional needs of STEM-students in various higher education institutions across…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Computer Security, Information Security
Knight, David B.; Grohs, Jacob R.; Bradburn, Isabel S.; Kinoshita, Timothy J.; Vaziri, Stacey; M. Matusovich, Holly; Carrico, Cheryl – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Determining the root causes of persistent underrepresentation of different subpopulations in engineering remains a continued challenge. Because place-based variation of resource distribution is not random and because school and community contexts influence high school outcomes, considering variation across those contexts should be…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Disproportionate Representation, Enrollment Rate
Hollingsworth, Margaret – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
As electronic gadgets predominate a student's life, there comes a need for silence. A quiet place free of electromagnetic spectrum waves, dirty and stray electricity, and the endless chirps, whistles, beeps, and customized signaling. A quiet place can offer solitude for meditation, inspiration, and spiritual awareness. Student involvement in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans, Educational Environment, Furniture
Pretlow, Joshua; Patteson, Jennifer – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2015
This chapter investigates the consequences and implications of dual enrollment policy diversity on operating dual enrollment programs in the two states of Ohio and Virginia.
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, State Policy
Parker, Patricia – Inquiry, 2019
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) embarked on a comprehensive mathematics pathways project in October 2015 with a move from design to implementation in spring 2017. The VCCS Mathematics Pathways Project (VMPP) aimed not only to develop strategies to improve retention and completion, but also to address foundational barriers to students'…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, Change Strategies, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2019
Community colleges strive to fulfill the unique needs of military service members, veterans and their families, a mission harkening back to wartime and the decades in which the nation's fighters were off the battlefield. Educating the nation's servicemen and women has long been a core undertaking of many community colleges, particularly in regions…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans Education, Military Personnel, Access to Education
Parry, Michelle; Znosko, Wade; Fink, Alix Dowling; Fink, Mark; Fortino, Kenneth; Rhoten, Melissa; Blincoe, Sarai – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2019
In 2017, Longwood University launched the LIFE STEM Program, a holistic program girded by best practices in STEM teaching: cohorts of students, summer bridge program, genuine community building, intentional faculty-student mentoring, focused academic support and professional development, early research experiences, engagement with challenging…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, STEM Education, Citizen Participation
Morgan, Kristin L.; Crenshaw, Jasmine D.; Martin, Marcus L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
The proportion of underrepresented minority (URM) students graduating with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees, matriculating to graduate programs, and entering the STEM workforce continues to be significantly low. The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (the VA-NC Alliance)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Recruitment, Academic Persistence, Enrichment Activities
Hoosier, Kim; Pincus, Sam – Inquiry, 2014
As two Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) faculty set out to create an innovative learning community, they found that they also fostered a complex and rewarding professional development opportunity. This is an account of what it took to create such a community, and some of the lessons they learned along the way.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Faculty Development, Educational Innovation, Communities of Practice
Cuellar, Matthew J. – Journal of School Violence, 2018
Recent incidents of school-based violence have resulted in the widespread implementation of school safety strategies across the United States. While research on these strategies has grown over the past decade, there is little understanding about their collective influence on indicators of school violence. Using data from the 2007-2008 School…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Factor Analysis, Intervention