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Integrating Project Management into a Physical Activity-Based After-School Program: Lessons from a University Partnership
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Gabrielle Strittmater; Jake Simms; Alyssa Trad; Jules Woolf; Kevin Andrew Richards – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2025
The Young Olympians Program was developed to further a partnership between a university and the local Boys and Girls Club in central Illinois. The program was developed to improve youth participants' academic efficacy and social and emotional learning, while also engaging them in physical activity. This article shares the project-management stages…
Descriptors: After School Programs, School Community Programs, Youth Programs, Self Efficacy
The Community Engagement and Partnership Inventory (CEPI): An Aspirational Open-Source Instrument to Assess Community-Based Global Learning Programs
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Mathew Hayden Gendle; Amanda S. Tapler – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2024
As community-based global learning (CBGL) programs become more common on college/university campuses and utilize the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to guide programmatic outcomes, open-access evaluation instruments that both benchmark and effectively measure programmatic enhancements over time are needed. The 147-item Community Engagement and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Involvement, Global Approach, School Community Programs
Early Childhood Inclusion in Community-Based Programs: A Case Study Approach to Exploring Malleable Program Exosystem Factors
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Chavis Lickvar-Armstrong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Center-based community early childhood programs are essential options for pre-kindergarten care and education. Consistent with federal legislation (IDEA, 2004), these settings should be accessible so that young children with disabilities can receive their special education services there. In the United States, fewer than 50% of children who…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Community Programs, Equal Education
Engaging with Complexity: Making Sense of "Wicked Problems" in Rural South Africa
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Burman, Christopher J. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
This article provides insights into the utility of applying theories associated with the complexity sciences to engaged research. The article reflects on a 4-year health-related engagement between the University of Limpopo and the Waterberg Welfare Society in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The introduction presents the focus of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Social Problems, Difficulty Level
Extension: The Backbone Organization in Statewide Population Health Management
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Parisi, Michelle A.; Northcutt, Julie K.; McKendry, Jean E.; Sherrill, Windsor Westbrook; Dye, Cheryl J.; Snow, Jennifer Z. – Journal of Extension, 2018
Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service has developed and is implementing a statewide population health management model aimed at leveraging key partnerships in South Carolina. The model delineates roles of key partners needed to operationalize statewide initiatives and drive the delivery of health extension in the state. Clemson…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Models, Delivery Systems, Partnerships in Education
Utilising Planning and Financing Strategies in the Management of Community Development Projects in Enugu State, Nigeria
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Obetta, Chukwuemeka K.; Oreh, Catherine I. – Africa Education Review, 2017
Utilisation of community management strategies is an approach to governance that is based on community and organisational involvement. Communities with development projects have formed community projects management committees (CPMCs) that are encouraged to adopt the community management strategy in the planning and financing of community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Program Administration, Program Development
Adult TESOL Leadership: Using Self-Efficacy to Improve Student Success and Secure Grant Funding
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Glorious F. Fealing – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of the study was to address the Adult TESOL leadership concern of insecure grant funding. It focused on two key performance indicators: Student retention and academic skill level gains. Students dropping out of the program and scoring poorly on assessments are an ongoing concern for leadership. The study used an intervention and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Self Efficacy, Correlation, English (Second Language)