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Direct linkWeisbrod, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many institutions of higher education offer research opportunities for undergraduates, but community college students often do not get to benefit from this high-impact educational practice. There are several reasons for this problem, including that community college faculty and students have limited time availability for research and the mission…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Community Colleges
Elizabeth Farmosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The retention of high-achieving students in a university honors program is a significant challenge for academic institutions. This dissertation evaluates how well an honors college at a large, urban, public university retains students in the Honors College. The evaluation is a mixed-methods utilization-focused evaluation conducted by an internal…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, School Size, Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence
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Download full textKennelly, Patrick; Wichowsky, Amber; Knapp, Luke; Gerdes, Erin Wissler; Schram, Jacqueline; Byrne, Jennifer; Altenburg, Rana; Bergen, Daniel – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
There is broad recognition that anchor institutions--universities, hospitals, and other locally embedded organizations--can leverage their economic and human resources to revitalize and empower distressed neighborhoods. In Milwaukee, five anchor institutions, including Marquette University, collaborated with residents, city officials, and other…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, Neighborhood Improvement, Economic Development, Crime Prevention
Sara E. North – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
A method called multi-attribute utility analysis (MAUA) provides a decision-making framework that facilitates comparative analysis of multiple real-world decision alternatives with unique complex attributes. Utility analysis as a measure of effectiveness has been minimally used by educational researchers to date, despite clear relevance in complex…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Suburban Schools, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education
Boys, Stephanie; Bartholomew, Joseph; Patras, Aimee – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
The Policy Field Unit (PFU) is an independently designed practicum placement for School of Social Work (SSW) students at a large, urban Midwestern university. The placement provides students an opportunity to engage with the policy process as macro social work practitioners in a variety of settings. Increasing social work students' efficacy in…
Descriptors: Social Work, Practicums, Counselor Training, Public Policy
Yung, Betty; Yu, Kam-por; Leung, Barbara Y. P.; Chun, Jack – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
For a service-learning course focusing on poverty, students from a Hong Kong university took a 12-day trip to engage in various poverty alleviation services in Cambodia. This course was border-crossing on five dimensions: (1) urban versus rural, (2) developed versus developing world location, (3) classroom versus practical and experiential, (4)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Empathy, Moral Values, Developing Nations
