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Naish, Paul D. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2015
Community Days, an innovative initiative to foster community service and civic engagement at the City University of New York's new Guttman Community College, encourages students to perform volunteer work around the city. What makes the program unique are opportunities for students to take self-directed excursions and enjoy free resources in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Citizen Participation, Student Participation
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Goomas, David T.; Weston, Melissa B. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Students enrolled in two general psychology classes at El Centro College (ECC) of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) were offered the opportunity to earn extra credit by performing up to 20 hours of service learning. Benefits of service learning were observed in student development, including exploration of career possibilities,…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Service Learning, Psychology, Student Development
Landas, Sonya Lisette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Service-learning is an instructional method designed to cultivate interaction between students and their communities in order to improve the learning process. Although there is a wealth of information available pertaining to the development and implementation of service-learning in higher education, evidence supporting the impact of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Interaction, School Community Relationship
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Sophos, Patty – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2004
Service learning, or education through community service, benefits students, faculty, community colleges, and their surrounding communities. The following citations are a selection of recent ERIC resources on service learning in the community college. These resources include guides to developing and sustaining community partnerships and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Service Learning, Educational Benefits, Guides
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2010
The Black College and University Act defined an historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, School Effectiveness, Civil Rights Legislation, Student Development
Gottlieb, Karla, Ed.; Robinson, Gail, Ed. – Community College Press (NJ1), 2006
This curriculum guide is intended to provide practical, easy-to-use applications for the widest range of faculty who would like to develop their students' citizenship skills by integrating civic responsibility concepts and practices into their college courses. The authors recognize that community college faculty teach courses that reflect varying…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Community Colleges, Social Sciences
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Dale, Paul A.; Drake, Tonya M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2005
As community colleges embrace learning-centered practices, student affairs professionals have an opportunity to recommit to building and maintaining partnerships with their academic colleagues. This chapter explores the development, nature, and culture of learning-centered partnerships between academic and student affairs professionals, identifies…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Partnerships in Education