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Sanders, Susan M.; Clough, Joy – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2011
Founded in 2001, the Center for Religion and Public Discourse at Saint Xavier University, Chicago, illustrates how centers and institutes can express Catholic identity and serve the university community and society by providing opportunities for thoughtful and civil discourse. Although the Center does not currently support basic research or fund…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Higher Education, Research and Development Centers
Glenn, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on the dispute about the creation of an institute named for the late economist and free-market advocate Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Five months after the University of Chicago announced plans to invest $200-million in an economics institute named for the late Milton Friedman, the project is still generating…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Educational Development, Institutional Mission, Economics Education
Archer, Jeff – Education Week, 2005
Lots of districts like to think they have close-knit leadership teams. But few school leaders can say they've ironed their clothes together, which became a morning ritual for a group from San Francisco that spent a week at the Harvard Business School in Boston. Joined by similar teams from seven other large districts, they camped out in dorm-like…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Leadership, Public Education, Organizational Change
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Johnson, Michelle A.; Wells, Susan J.; Testa, Mark F.; McDonald, Jess – Child Welfare, 2003
This article details a consensus-building initiative to develop a statewide research agenda responding to needs of Illinois's child welfare community. Researchers conducted this process through a university-community partnership to engage those interested in child welfare services, and produced a document to guide child welfare research throughout…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Children, Models
Illinois State Dept. of Public Aid, Springfield. – 1987
This booklet provides a description of 14 projects which were awarded funds during fiscal year 1987 for collaborative research in long-term care to find new ways to treat long-term care patients in Illinois nursing homes. It includes the organization or institution receiving the award, an abstract of the research proposal, and the name of the…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Facilities Management, Health Needs
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1996
This publication provides individual descriptions of grants allocated by the state of Illinois for aid to higher education for fiscal year 1997 under the provisions of the State Higher Education Cooperation Act. The Act provides funds for interinstitutional grants, minority educational achievement grants, minority articulation program grants,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Consortia, Economic Development