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Community Work-Study as a High Impact Practice: Designing a Work-Based, Community-Engaged Experiential Learning Opportunity to Increase Access for Under-Resourced College Students
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Studer, Morgan – Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 2019
For many institutions of higher education, naming and elevating a set of "High Impact [Educational] Practices" (HIPs) has become one of the key strategies to engage students in deeper disciplinary learning, personal growth, and success in college and beyond. This essay considers what might be involved in reframing Community Work-Study…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Work Study Programs, Experiential Learning, Access to Education
Portrait of a Work-Study Program Assessment
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Ghant, Walter A.; Horst, S. Jeanne; Whetstone, Devon H. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Institutions of higher education invest time and money directing cocurricular programs that allow students to formally engage in the local community. Community-service learning is one type of program recently dubbed "high impact" (Kuh, 2008). However, it is not enough to simply refer to a program as "high impact": it is…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, College Students, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Mentors' Personal Growth and Development in a College Access Mentorship Program
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Haber-Curran, Paige; Everman, Daphne; Martinez, Melissa A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2017
As the prevalence of mentoring programs in higher education institutions continues to grow, there remains little research on the growth and development that comes from serving as a mentor. In this phenomenological study, the researchers examined college students' personal and educational gains through serving as mentors to high school students in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Phenomenology, College Students, Student Development
A Way with Words: Launching Literacy into the Community.
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Jordan, Jennifer E.; Lubetsky, Caryn N. – Journal of Career Development, 1998
At the University of Missouri, A Way with Words uses work-study students as literacy tutors under an AmeriCorps grant. Service learning and critical reflection are incorporated into the program. (SK)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Literacy Education, Service Learning
Student Work Colleges in the US: A Service-learning Philosophy and Style.
Ramsay, William R. – Education with Production, 1988
Describes the work-study program at Berea College in Kentucky and its benefits. (JOW)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Educational Benefits, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Special Section on New Ways of Thinking and Working in Career Centers.
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Rakes, Thom D., Ed.; And Others – Journal of Career Development, 1995
Includes "Introduction" (Rakes); "From a Narrow to Expansive Worldview" (Heppner, Duan); "Coping with the Emotions of Job Transition" (Doerr); "Applying Customer Service Strategies to Career Services" (Carter); "Enrollment Management and Career Services" (Heinzen, Rakes); "Career Centers and…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Change, Career Counseling, College Students