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Direct linkFeigenbaum, Paul – Community Literacy Journal, 2019
During a sabbatical semester in Fall 2018, "Community Literacy Journal (CLJ)" co-editor Paul Feigenbaum volunteered as a "Scholar-in-Residence" at Youth Enrichment Services (YES), a nonprofit established in 1994 that is based in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Guided by its mission "to create hope out of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Areas, Mentors, Student Empowerment
Robles, Jannell – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
In this essay, Jannell Robles explores and discusses some common themes found in her experiences as a Latina undergraduate student. During the summer of 2008, she conducted fieldwork in a rural town in Mexico. Her experiences as the only Latina student on this trip were similar to her experiences at her university and those discussed by Latina…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Social Scientists
Poyntz, Stuart R. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
More than 30 years since Hannah Arendt's death in 1975 at the age of 69, her novel theory of the public realm continues to attract attention and debate. In this article, the author contributes to this discussion by drawing on Arendt's theory of public life to investigate the space of youth media production in relation to questions of democratic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics, Theories, Democracy
Peer reviewedGrybek, Diane D. – Preventing School Failure, 1997
Examines the characteristics of gifted and talented students and describes three cooperative mentoring programs. They are the Executive Internship Program and the Laboratory Experience Program (both in Hillsborough County, Florida) and university-based summer programs at many institutions. Also identifies risks, such as breaking of close…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs, Gifted
Peer reviewedCollins, Maurice – Action in Teacher Education, 1990
Discusses recruitment and retention of minority faculty and staff, especially Blacks, in higher education. Recommendations for successful employment and retention of minority faculty include a higher education partnership consortium, visiting professorships and faculty exchange programs, provision of housing and other financial benefits, mentoring…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
Download full textMahoney, Margaret E. – 1983
This report describes the role of a mentor of young people and a summer program providing mentors for high school students. For two summers, with the help of the Commonwealth Fund, several hundred young New Yorkers were chosen from among high school juniors with little hope of finding a summer job to enroll in a program sponsored by Hunter College…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Sorensen, Barbara – Winds of Change, 2001
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), a summer program to increase minority representation in the science community, particularly atmospheric research, is described. An American Indian participant discusses the connection between modern science and traditional Native heritage, noting that observation of the natural…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, College Students, Earth Science
