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Kamau Jamal Abercrombia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the United States, there is a disproportionately low number of Black physicians in comparison to the demographic composition of Black people in the nation. This underrepresentation gap is result of historic systemic racism that led to Black people being abused and left out of healthcare and medical education. Despite improvement in healthcare…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, African American Students, Premedical Students, Academic Support Services
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Gamble, Elena; Bates, Catherine – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the process of critically evaluating Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities after its first year of operation. The programme supports and promotes community-based learning/service-learning across DIT. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is presented in the form of a…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Service Learning
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Zygmunt-Fillwalk, Eva – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2011
This study reports the relationship of an undergraduate course in family and community relations to the teaching practices of 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year elementary and early childhood education graduates of a mid-sized Midwestern university. Sixty students were surveyed using the Peabody Family Involvement Survey (Katz & Bauch, 1999), with a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study
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Marzano, William; Sobek, Christine – Community College Journal, 2010
Every community college engages in partnerships and collaboration. The trend for community colleges has been to increase the number and diversity of partnerships and collaborations. Current economic conditions, which require community colleges to serve more students with decreased state funding and to assume a larger role in workforce development,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Community Colleges, Emergency Programs, Community Relations
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Schroeder, Kathleen; Wood, Cynthia; Galiardi, Shari; Koehn, Jenny – Journal of Geography, 2009
This article presents the results from a research project on the host community impact of college students participating in university-sponsored international experiences. It finds that little reliable data is available on the impact that our students have on host communities. The article concludes that nondamaging international experiences…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Study Abroad, International Education, College Students
Kemball, Mark – CURRENTS, 2009
This article discusses the results of a CASE survey, compiled in April 2009, which was sent to almost 2,800 members who had previously indicated that community relations were part of their professional responsibilities or interests. The survey suggests that the role and practice of community relations in a public institution is somewhat different…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Universities, Private Colleges, Audiences