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Lalita M. Kaligotla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As university-based community engagement programs expand through curricular and cocurricular initiatives, it is important to understand and assess their impact in advancing a key mission of higher education--to nurture and develop engaged citizens with a well-honed sense of civic identity. A literature review revealed a gap in the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Citizenship Responsibility, College Students, Self Concept
Luci-Jo DiMaggio – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Which programmatic principles of community engagement have a higher potential to irritate the beliefs that college students hold regarding their own power, privilege, understanding of social justice? This study takes a qualitative approach to the exploration of three groups of students representing curricular community engagement, co-curricular…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Justice
Rita Gallardo Good – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study is centered on first-generation Latinx students at Sacramento State and their academic journey. The research explores the impact of community engagement through service learning, community-based learning, volunteerism, and civic engagement on these students and their degree completion. The undergraduate experience in higher education is…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Cultural Capital, Cultural Background, Community Involvement
Walkuski, Christy Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This narrative inquiry brings together a re-emerging interest in the civic mission of higher education and inquiry about individual civic identity development, with a lens focused on the currently underrepresented voices of community college students. The purpose of this study is to increase our understanding of the meaning that community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Citizenship Education
Bowers, Kristie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With university mission statements focused on preparing emerging adult students for globally inclusive professional careers, moral and leadership development has become a central focus of many colleges and universities (Bass, 1991; Binghamton University, 2016; Zimmerman-Oster & Burkhardt, 1999). Colleges and universities utilize interactions…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, College Athletics, Athletes, Feedback (Response)
Quinn, Stephanie Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study re-examines the graduate education of doctoral students in rhetoric and composition in light of the field's civic tradition. This project explores the current preparation of rhetoric and composition students in Ph.D. programs and then focuses primarily on how doctoral programs are preparing aspiring new faculty members to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study