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Flores, Kim; Fierle-Hedrick, Kai – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
In 2014, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation began funding three projects that together comprise the Grassroots Portfolio: Civic and Family Engagement, Community Organizing, and Amplifying Student Voice and Leadership. This work was part of the Public Understanding and Demand component of NMEF's grantmaking strategy. Following a Foundation-wide…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Social Action, Advocacy, Philanthropic Foundations
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
Devlin-Scherer, Roberta – 1997
This paper describes the training of a high school assistance team designed to guide younger students. The program, which was directed at students in grades 7 and 8, lasted for 1 year and involved students in community service and challenge activities. The setting was a small rural school in Vermont, with nearly 400 students in grades 7-12.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Helping Relationship, Mentors, Peer Influence
Frasier, James R., Ed. – 1980
This Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) Achievement Program Guide is designed to provide the advisor-teacher with ideas to help in developing an achievement program involving handicapped and disadvantaged students. Suggestions are made to the teacher for making VICA work, individualizing rank requirements depending upon a student's…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement