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Patricia M. Lanzon; Amanda M. Davis-Fritzley; Jodi A. Burns – Pennsylvania Teacher Educator, 2024
Using the Pennsylvania Department of Education Family/Community Standards, university professors from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford collaborated with multiple community clubs such as the Rotary and Kiwanis as well as local agencies including St. Bonaventure University on the development and implementation of a family literacy day event…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Family Literacy, School Community Programs, Community Organizations
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Bélanger, Nathalie; Dulude, Eliane – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Public education systems are often large, diverse, fragmented, and historically very hard to change. While previous reforms targeted primarily school staff, large-scale policies now include a broader audience including non-system organizations (e.g., knowledge brokering organizations) that may influence directly or indirectly policy…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Networks, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Governors and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Governors play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Governance, High Schools
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Wigfield, Daniel – Sport Management Education Journal, 2022
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been relied upon in business and related disciplines, such as sport management to connect pedagogy with the need for students to apply their knowledge in real-word situations (Decker-Lange, 2018; Delaney et al., 2017; Sherwood, 2004). Todd et al. (2014) have noted that sport management students often have existing…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Athletics, Administrator Education, Teaching Methods
Leslie Abell; Dennis J. Downey; Pilar Pacheco – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Community-Based Research (CBR) presents a wide range of benefits in higher education to students, community partners, and universities. Yet on our campus (and many others), CBR remains less common than other high-impact practices (HIPs) such as service learning and undergraduate research due to lack of effective institutionalization. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Cooperation, Research
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Anne Marie Iaccopucci; Monica M. Lobenstein; Kendra M. Lewis; Kea Norrell-Aitch – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
Mental health challenges for youth continue to be a growing concern. Youth-serving organizations have the potential to play a significant role in recognizing the signs and symptoms of mental health challenges in youth. The Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training course is widely used to equip adults working with youth with skills to support…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Mental Health, First Aid, Training
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Nizami, Urooj; Shambaugh, Adam – Open Praxis, 2019
This paper reports on the establishment of an open pedagogy initiative between community organisations and students, facilitated by the Temple University Libraries (TUL) and faculty in the Philadelphia area. The Community-University Research Exchange (CURE) produces community-driven social justice research. Library facilitators solicit research…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Open Education, Community Organizations, Universities
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Kontos, George – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The following paper describes a distinctive collaborative service-learning project done in an undergraduate class on web design. In this project, students in a web design class contacted local community non-profit organizations to create websites (collections of web pages) to benefit these organizations. The two phases of creating a website,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Cooperative Learning, Service Learning
Sack, Michael; Allen, Lili – Jobs for the Future, 2019
Despite the growing popularity of apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and in-school youth apprenticeships in the United States, young adults who lack the credentials and connections to seamlessly enter postsecondary pathways remain overlooked. Young-adult-serving agencies and community-based organizations (CBOs) are underutilized key actors in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Apprenticeships, Community Role, Community Organizations
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Conner, Trey; Gresham, Morgan; McCracken, Jill – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2011
By offering open-source software (OSS)-based networks as an affordable technology alternative, we partnered with a nonprofit community organization. In this article, we narrate the client-based experiences of this partnership, highlighting the ways in which OSS and open-source culture (OSC) transformed our students' and our own expectations of…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Educational Technology, Community Organizations, Partnerships in Education
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Gordon, David S.; Ghosh, Cyril – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
Building relationships between traditional college students and adults with disabilities is an important yet little understood aspect of civic engagement. The case study presented in this paper built one such relationship by utilizing a shared narrative project to construct an equitable collaborative experience between a set of students from…
Descriptors: College Students, Peer Relationship, Communities of Practice, Adults
Nienhusser, Helmut Kenny – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2002, New York became the fourth state to offer in-state tuition to certain undocumented immigrants enrolling in its public postsecondary education institutions. Although enacted several years ago, the implementation of this legislation has never been examined. This qualitative single case study with embedded units explored how New York's…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, Community Colleges, Politics of Education
Tryon, Elizabeth; Stoecker, Randy; Martin, Amy; Seblonka, Kristy; Hilgendorf, Amy; Nellis, Margaret – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2008
This paper presents the results of interviews with staff from 64 community organizations regarding their experiences with service-learners. One of the themes that emerged from the interviews focused on concerns related to short-term service-learning commitments that last a semester or less. We explore the challenges presented to community groups…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Interviews, Problems, Service Learning
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Dahlberg, Teresa; Barnes, Tiffany; Buch, Kim; Rorrer, Audrey – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
The Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service (STARS) Alliance is a nationally-connected system of regional partnerships among higher education, K-12 schools, industry and the community with a mission to broaden the participation of women, under-represented minorities and persons with disabilities in computing (BPC). Each regional…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Leadership
Mitchell, Tania D. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2008
There is an emerging body of literature advocating a "critical" approach to community service learning with an explicit social justice aim. A social change orientation, working to redistribute power, and developing authentic relationships are most often cited in the literature as points of departure from traditional service-learning. This…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Service Learning, Social Change, Critical Theory
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