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Roemer, Robin Chin, Ed.; Kern, Verletta, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2019
At the heart of digital scholarship are universal questions, lessons, and principles relating both to the mission of higher education and the shared values that make an academic library culture. But while global in aspirations, digital scholarship starts with local culture drawn from the community. Editors Chin Roemer and Kern invite you into…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Scholarship, Library Services, Library Materials
Burtin, Anika Spratley; Fleming, Jeffrey S. – IGI Global, 2018
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including institutions of higher education. "Changing Urban Landscapes through Public Higher Education" is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unique ways in which the faculty and students of…
Descriptors: Community Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education, Urban Universities
Attewell, Paul; Lavin, David; Domina, Thurston; Levey, Tania – Russell Sage Foundation, 2009
The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been heralded as a major step toward reducing chronic economic disparities. But many of the policies that broadened access to higher education--including affirmative action, open admissions, and need-based financial aid--have come under attack in recent years by critics…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disadvantaged, Access to Education, Urban Universities
Gorelick, Sherry – 1981
The role of the College of the City of New York (CCNY) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is described, particularly with regard to early Jewish immigrants. It is suggested that the myth of the "easy marriage" of Jewish values and American opportunities ignores the variety of Jewish culture and the drama of the vast…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Curriculum, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational History
Hoong, Yip Yat, Ed. – 1973
The last two decades have witnessed a sudden upsurge of new institutions of higher learning in countries of Southeast Asia, and most of these institutions are located in nonmetropolitan areas. What is the nature and function of these metropolitan or regional universities? How do they relate to the metropolitan universities? What role can they play…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lash, John S.; And Others – 1975
Texas Southern University was created in a decisive period of racial turmoil in national affairs, a period which eventually resulted in dramatic and far reaching changes in legal and societal accommodations of the ambitions and aspirations of minority people. Higher education was an arena of conflict in the forefront of civil rights struggles, and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Colleges, Extension Education, Higher Education
Berrol, Selma C. – 1989
A case study of the unique City University of New York Bernard Baruch College is presented. The school is unique because for 130 years it charged no tuition to most of its students (and even today is cost-free to many) and because its programs have so closely matched the needs of the city of which it is a part. A description is provided of how the…
Descriptors: College Environment, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Planning
Kamath, M.; Udipi, S. A.; Varghese, M. A. – 2000
This study examined the role of the SNDT (formerly Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey) University in reducing poverty in the Gilbert Hill-Gamdevi Dongri area of Mumbai, India. The Gilbert Hill area accommodates around 1 million people, most of whom are migrants form other parts of India. The Department of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Income, Low Income Groups
Bender, Louis W.; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1987
Two overlapping nationwide studies, one funded by the Ford Foundation and the other by the U.S. Department of Education, provide information covering policies, procedures, and practices that enhance or impede the academic success of minority students in universities and community colleges. Topics include understanding the problem of minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Community Colleges, Educational Discrimination
Gitlow, Abraham L. – 1995
This volume traces the history of the first hundred years of the Stern School of Business at New York University. Chapter 1 describes the school's original mission and founding. Chapter 2 describes how the school changed and developed as it responded to trends from 1900 to 1950. Chapter 3 explores the school's dramatic decline between 1955 and…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Alumni, Business Administration Education, Business Education
Bordner, Diane C.; Petersen, David M. – 1983
Various aspects of campus police work are described, including the actual duties of officers, staff selection and training, and the larger issues of law enforcement. The urban university police is the focus, and comparisons are made to the organization and activities of other urban police forces. Also considered is the local context for different…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Campuses, Crime Prevention, Employee Responsibility
Council on Social Work Education, New York, NY. – 1974
This monograph represents the continued efforts of the Council on Social Work Education to give major attention to issues related to ethnic minorities in social work education. The papers included were compiled from a variety of sources: three were presented at the Council's 1973 Annual Program Meeting; one was a paper originally presented at the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Students, Black Teachers, College Admission
Berendzen, Richard – 1986
A personal account of Richard Berendzen's life as president of The American University (AU) in Washington, D.C. during the 1983-1984 academic year is presented in diary form. The account describes his interactions with faculty, students, administrators, and people outside the university to further the goals of the institution. In the year prior to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Environment, College Presidents
Brazziel, William F. – 1974
This book was written for concerned individuals who are interested in making the last quarter- century a time of sustained drives toward true quality education for every black child, youth and adult. The book examines the sources of schooling such as networks of metropolitan colleges and cradle schools. The reciprocal relationship of education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Community, Black Education, Black Students
Flint, Colin, Ed.; Austin, Michael, Ed. – 1994
This volume contains 16 essays on Further Education (FE) in the context of its changing status and role in the educational and economic life of Great Britain. The essays are grouped around four main themes: (1) FE and mission; (2) managerial responsibilities; (3) context; and (4) diversity. The essays are: "FE Makes Itself Indispensable"…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Change
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