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Daniel, Jamie Owen – Academe, 2010
This author asserts that faculty should publicly and tenaciously support graduate student organizing campaigns. She states this not only from her perspective as a staff member of the largest higher education local in Illinois, University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100, which represents faculty and staff at seven of the state's public…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Graduate Students, Educational Needs, Academic Freedom
Creating a Community/University Partnership That Works: The Case of the East St. Louis Action Research Project.
Reardon, Kenneth M. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1995
A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign program involving faculty and students in participatory action research to improve community-based organizations in East St. Louis (Illinois) is described. The project's origins, management, community development strategy, and accomplishments are documented, and some of the institutional, environmental,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, City Government, Community Development, Community Organizations
Colleges and the Urban Poor: The Role of Public Higher Education in Community Service.
Holleb, Doris B. – 1972
This book, an outgrowth of an earlier study undertaken in 1969 for the Illinois Board of Higher Education in connection with the preparation of a "Master Plan for Higher Education: Phase III," is a comprehensive analysis of the complex conditions which must be considered in order to make headway in providing higher educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Cooperation