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Dunn, Alyssa Hadley; Faison, Morgan Zacheya-Jewel – Educational Foundations, 2015
This article examines the September 2012 closure of the Division of Educational Studies (DES) at Emory University. The authors present this discussion as an example of the ways that the neoliberalization of higher education contributes to the extinction of educational foundations programs. What happened at Emory is symptomatic of the impact that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Schools of Education, Educational Change, Universities
Elrod, Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study explored the role of elementary parent involvement coordinators (EPIC) in a Northeast Georgia Title I Charter School District. EPICs were charged with facilitating programs designed to build social capital and network closure for families. This nested case study explored the experiences of five EPICs, each located in one of the five…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools
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Gasman, Marybeth; Drezner, Noah D. – History of Education Quarterly, 2009
The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of the history of fundraising in black college communities; to complicate understandings of white involvement in black college fundraising; to understand the role of fundraising, that is, fundraising for social change and social justice, during the period that followed the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Fund Raising, History, Consultants