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Direct linkJackeline D. Mejias-Fuertes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Community colleges are valued for developing opportunities, supporting students, and transforming communities, yet they are experiencing challenges that have the potential to impact their mission. The changing environment brought about by economic, political, and social development such as funding gaps and fluctuations in student enrollment will…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Community Colleges, Sustainability, Student Costs
Michael P. Slocum – ProQuest LLC, 2020
It has been 15 years since the initial publication of the American Association of Community Colleges' competencies for community college leaders (AACC, 2005), which outlined six competencies community college leaders needed if they were to be successful: organizational strategy, resource management, communication, collaboration, community college…
Descriptors: Leadership, Competence, Community Colleges, Organizations (Groups)
Peer reviewedMia B. Russell; Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head; Kelli Wolfe-Enslow; Jacqueline Holland; Nicholas Zimmerman – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Millions of students experienced increased levels of stress and worries about their college pursuits as they were forced to abrupt pivot to online and hybrid learning due to the global pandemic. Drawing from the theory of human needs, this study examined the extent to which COVID-19 influenced the relationship between financial well-being, needs…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Needs
Soo-Yean Shim; Jessica Thompson – Science Education, 2025
We explored how various contextual resources accumulated over multiple years operated together to facilitate a team of high school teachers' sustained and agentive learning after a 4-year research-practice partnership (RPP) grant concluded. Specifically, we examined constellations of resources that promoted the co-evolution of the teachers'…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Teacher Leadership
Victoria Shiver; Kelly L. Simonton; Angela Simonton; Ali Alshuraymi – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
The purpose was to understand two teachers' experiences of implementing the teaching personal and social responsibility model over the span of one academic year due to their development and participation within a community of practice. A case study approach was utilized to gather and analyze qualitative data; three themes were developed. The…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Self Concept, Responsibility, Communities of Practice
Wright, Dana E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Community change approaches have increasingly involved participatory practices in which community members directly impacted by an issue participate in implementing change efforts. However, community participation as a practice and approach does not always include youth participation. Within the field of youth organizing, young people are…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Citizen Participation, Activism, Capacity Building
Download full textArrieta, Martha I.; Fisher, Leevones; Shaw, Thomas; Bryan, Valerie; Hudson, Andrea; Hansberry, Shantisha; Eastburn, Sasha; Freed, Christopher R.; Shelley-Tremblay, Shannon; Hanks, Roma Stovall; Washington-Lewis, Cynthia; Roussel, Linda; Dagenais, Paul A.; Icenogle, Marjorie; Slagle, Michelle L.; Parker, L. Lynette; Crook, Errol – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
Although there is strong support for community engagement and community-based participatory research (CBPR) from public health entities, medical organizations, and major grant-funding institutions, such endeavors often face challenges within academic institutions. Fostering the interest, skills, and partnerships to undertake participatory research…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Public Health, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Education Scotland, 2017
In June 2012 the Scottish Government issued the "Community Learning and Development (CLD) Strategic Guidance." While directed at Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) and recognising the vital role played by a wide range of organisations and services, the guidance clearly identifies a lead role for local authorities 'to provide clear…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation
Williams, Ronald C.; Klugh, Elgin L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
The legacy of deindustrialization and associated underemployment continues to plague many former industrial communities. In these spaces, universities serve as anchors providing gateways for individual economic empowerment, and as "brain centers" charged with generating solutions for societal problems. This paper explores the development…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Urban Renewal, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship
Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth – Religious Education, 2017
This article discusses how religious education began at Esperanza College in North Philadelphia, one of the poorest counties of the United States. It also is the largest community of returning citizens in Pennsylvania. Student access and success in higher education continues to be impacted by the effects of structural racism and systemic poverty.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs, Intergroup Relations
Kaitlin Clinnin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community is a concept with tremendous power in higher education and writing studies. For higher education institutions, community influences the purpose and method of education. Based on John Dewey's work on the social nature of education and other histories of community-based education, higher education practitioners and theorists like Ernest…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Sense of Community, Communities of Practice
Collins, Lauren – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
Higher education in the U.S. sees global learning as critical to student development. Over the last seventy years, study abroad has emerged as the method of choice for teaching global knowledge and intercultural competence. In this context, community-based global learning programs are a type of program where students live in communities to learn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Global Approach, School Community Relationship
Coyer, Caitlin; Gebregiorgis, Desta; Patton, Kaitlin; Gheleva, Daniela; Bikos, Lynette – Journal of Experiential Education, 2019
Background: Global learning outcomes (GLOs) are increasingly emphasized within higher education because of the advantages they provide in navigating globalized contexts. The process of global learning may be understood through Mezirow's theory of transformational learning, in which presentation of dissonant information results in more open,…
Descriptors: Community Education, Outcomes of Education, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories
Atiles, Jorge Horacio – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
The community engagement professional (CEP) plays a critical role in engaging faculty, staff, and students with communities. In order to do this in the most effective way, this essay advocates for CEPs to become familiar with the Cooperative Extension system and develop competency for engaging Extension personnel, even when those personnel are not…
Descriptors: Extension Education, School Community Relationship, Competency Based Education, College Faculty
Winton, Sue; Evans, Michael P. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
Grounded in critical policy theories and democratic conceptions of research, case studies of three community-based organizations, one in Canada and two in the U.S., were analyzed to determine if and how the groups engaged with research in their efforts to influence education policy. The findings demonstrate that the community-based organizations…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Action, Educational Policy, Community Involvement
