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Joel A. Leader – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Since at least the 1960s, federal and state policymakers have debated how best to hold public schools accountable for producing graduates who are prepared to fully participate in our democratic society. Since that time, reform efforts have led to Texas' current test-based A-F accountability system. This qualitative case study explored how one…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Influence, School Districts, Program Implementation
Amy Hankins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Feedback in higher education can have powerful effects on improving students' learning (Carless & Boud, 2018; Hattie & Timperley, 2007; Hattie & Yates, 2014; Jonsson, 2012). However, opportunities for students to learn from feedback are lacking (Robinson et al., 2013). The current study was a mixed-method single case design exploring…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Feedback (Response), Program Evaluation
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Wabike, Paul – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
Universities contribution to society development in Africa has been a subject of discussion since many countries attained independence in the 1960s. The university was seen as having a function of emancipating society from poverty and ignorance. The premise of this view was based on the university's role in creating the ruling elite and knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Social Capital, Community Development
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Cloud, Robert C. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
Effective governance requires high levels of trust and mutual respect among trustees who must commit to serving as stewards of the college's resources. This chapter describes rogue trustees, their tactics, and their negative impact on the governing process and college culture. The chapter includes strategies to mitigate the disruptive and…
Descriptors: Trustees, Governing Boards, Governance, Community Colleges
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Amey, Marilyn J. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
The chapters in this volume of "New Directions for Community Colleges" highlight the intended roles of boards of trustees and illustrate areas in which board relations often go awry. This final manuscript brings together the themes of the volume, highlights lessons learned and presents recommendations moving forward. The challenges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Governing Boards, Educational Change
Gooden, Mark Anthony; Khalifa, Muhammad; Arnold, Noelle W.; Brown, Keffrelyn D.; Meyers, Coby V.; Welsh, Richard O. – Wallace Foundation, 2023
Effective principal pipelines can lead to benefits for student outcomes, according to a groundbreaking 2019 study. But could these pipelines be designed to advance a district's vision of equity as well? If so, what would that design look like? That's the question tackled in this think piece by a team of six education scholars. They consider how…
Descriptors: Principals, Equal Education, Leadership Styles, Culturally Relevant Education
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O'Connor, Brendan H.; Mancinas, Oscar; Troxel Deeg, Megan – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This qualitative study investigated the experiences of first- and second-year migrant undergraduate students and staff in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at Arizona State University (ASU). ASU CAMP, which started in 2016, is the first program of its kind at an Arizona public university. Using an ethnographic monitoring approach, a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Migrants, Mexican Americans, Self Concept
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Ramirez, Veronica Esposo – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
This article examines how university-community outreach was an enabler for integral human development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative information about the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) Community Outreach Program (COP) is described and analyzed. In particular, the Kabagis Aeta Projects succeeded in its initial…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Outreach Programs, Universities, Individual Development
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Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca – International Journal of Listening, 2023
While many tools exist to assess student content knowledge, there are few that assess whether students display the critical listening skills necessary to interpret the quality of a speaker's message at the college level. The following research provides preliminary evidence for the internal consistency and factor structure of a tool, the…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Test Validity, Community College Students, Test Reliability
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Asgarova, Rana; Macaskill, Anne; Abrahamse, Wokje – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand student experiences of authentically assessed community partnership projects and reflect on authentic assessment from a social and environmental sustainability perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The authors present an elaborated case study including graduate-level courses at a university…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Community Involvement
Lancaster, Alexander; Bonella, Barrett; Gesteland, Becky Jo; Tadlock, Patrick; Fry, Richard – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
In the summer of 2020, our team created virtual community-engaged learning (VCEL) modules in response to the need to move classes to online and hybrid delivery styles during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. These modules addressed engaged learning concepts and were designed with faculty, students, and community partner organizations in mind.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, School Community Relationship, Community Involvement, COVID-19
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Pai, Anant – Comparative Education Review, 2023
Myriad academic, situational, and organizational factors play an important role in parental decision-making for school choice. We propose a framework for how hot knowledge is processed through the lens of parents' own sociopolitical values (i.e., constraints) to inform preferences. This study employs 8 months of ethnographic case study data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Decision Making, Political Attitudes
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Ungemah, Lori D.; Vandenoever, Julia Beck – Art Education, 2023
In this article, the authors explore how a photographer and artist-in-residence, worked with students in a community college arts classes to tell the photographic story of their dreams. This Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program gives young people cameras to tell the stories of their lives through their own images. Artist-in-residence…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Photography, Art Education
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Kathleen Sexsmith; Richard Kiely – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
Global service-learning (GSL) course offerings have expanded rapidly in the last decade at U.S. universities and colleges, yet faculty are not always prepared for the ethical challenges of development work with disadvantaged communities in international settings. Based on a qualitative study of 25 GSL faculty across a range of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Learning, Global Approach, International Programs
Rolle, Alvetta Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how high-achieving African American males attending community college describe how social support contributed to their academic experience in the United States. The theoretical foundations included The Self-Efficacy Theory and The Scholar Identity Model. There were three research…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, High Achievement, Community College Students
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