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The Music Den: A Framework for Entrepreneurship Education in a University Start-Up Incubator
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McGee, Cormac; Schwartz, Noah; Ehrlick, Steven – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This account of practice details an ongoing approach to entrepreneurship education currently being implemented at a large urban university in Toronto, Canada. The Music Den is an entrepreneurship incubator focusing on the music industry that collaborates with start-up businesses, music projects, industry, local communities and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Urban Universities, Foreign Countries, Music
Rethinking the University: A Case Study
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Davis, Alan R.; Jhangiani, Rajiv; Purvey, Diane – On the Horizon, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to describe and illuminate the ways in which Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)--an urban, undergraduate institution with a strong focus on teaching, learning and related research and scholarship, and a substantial international student population--adapted to pandemic conditions in 2020 in an effort to meet community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Study, College Administration
Critical Place-Based Pedagogy in an Inner-City University Department: Truth, Reconciliation and Neoliberal Austerity
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MacKinnon, Shauna – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
In 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) described Canada's residential school policy, established in the 1880's and active through most of the 20th century, as 'cultural genocide'. Earlier that same year, Maclean's magazine described Winnipeg as Canada's most racist Winnipeg. Winnipeg, situated on Treaty One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Departments, Racial Bias
Writing New York: Using Google Maps as a Platform for Electronic Portfolios
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Jacobs, Dale; Adams, Hollie; Morris, Janine – Composition Studies, 2010
English 302: Writing about the Arts is a practicum course offered at the University of Windsor for upper-level English undergraduate students. The course asks students to write about a variety of art forms and requires engagement with multiple genres of writing as a way for students to effectively order their experiences, reconstruct meaning in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Writing
Redefining Community-Urban University Relations: A Project for Education Faculties?
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Dippo, Don – Teaching Education, 2005
This paper begins with the observation that, for a variety of social, political, and economic reasons, many universities are beginning to rethink the nature of their relations with local communities and asks about the place of Faculties of Education in such processes of reconsideration. It describes recent initiatives at York University as…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Arts Advocacy in a Time of Economic Crisis: Problems and Opportunities in Canada.
Roberts, John P. L. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Arts advocacy groups have managed to influence Canadian public policy and government priorities during a time of economic difficulty and have produced significant outcomes for the arts community. Legislation to establish an umbrella, national arts agency was defeated following criticism from arts groups. Advocacy groups will have to assume an even…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art, Artists, College Faculty