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Paton, Valerie O.; Reith Charles C.; Harden, Karon K.; Abaurre, Rogério; Tremblay, Crystal – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Narratives from 3 presenters at the closing session of the 2013 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference demonstrate that higher education institutions and communities can forge deep and sustainable relationships to address the "wicked problems" in their countries and communities. University leaders in Nigeria described how students…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, College Faculty, College Students, Service Learning
Batenburg, Mark P. – 1995
Agency-school collaborations are examined from the point of view of the agency. The data for the analysis were gathered through interviews with staff people from six different community-based organizations in California, all of whom have experience working with schools and youth volunteers. The study found that there often are culture clashes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, High School Students
Subotzky, George – 1998
This paper explores the idea of a complementary alternative to the entrepreneurial university, with special reference to South African higher education. Emphasis is on the contribution of higher education to equitable social renewal of three inter-related issues: (1) changing global conditions and the tensions between high-tech development and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Developing Nations, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Tillman, Linda C.; King, Joyce Elaine – 1999
This paper describes an innovative interdisciplinary course offered at the University of New Orleans (Louisiana) which involved community members as full-fledged partners with students and university faculty in service-learning-by-doing teams. Each student, with the assistance of a faculty member and a community partner, identified an opportunity…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Programs, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Oates, Karen K. – 1996
This packet provides information on New Century College, a program within George Mason University (Virginia) based on an integrated integration model of interdisciplinary course work, experiential learning, and service learning within learning communities. The program is organized into three "divisions" and requires 12 hours of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Ward, Kelly; Vernon, Andrea – 1999
This paper explores community perceptions of students and faculty involved in service learning and campus outreach initiatives, examining how communities and campuses engage in service activities; how the service mission of higher education is perceived; whether service learning students help or hinder community agencies; and how partnerships…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education
Hill, Don; Pope, Denise Clark – 1995
Part 1 of this paper briefly describes the Service Learning 2000 partnership that joined Stanford University, K-12 schools, and community organizations in a collaborative effort to promote service learning throughout California. In part 2, the paper examines how the Service Learning 2000 Center has established a niche for service learning at the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Fullerton, Jim; Davis, Scot G. – 1996
A staff member of the Outdoor Adventures Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln relates his experience in supervising the construction of the first low ropes course in Yucatan, Mexico. During 1994, two staff members visited Yucatan to explore trip possibilities for the program and to inquire about a future conference location. While leading…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, College Faculty, College Students, Construction (Process)
Addison-Jacobson, Jill; Addison, Joy – 1995
This paper explores the implications of an effort to promote service learning in two middle schools in the Palo Alto (California) Unified School District. The schools are grades six through eight with about 1,000 students in each. The paper describes seven service efforts and then analyzes the costs and benefits of these projects. The study…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Relations
Small, Ruth V.; Venkatesh, Murali; Marsden, Janet – 1998
This paper begins by describing the changing needs in the education of today's information technology (IT) professional. It presents a theoretical framework for using an experiential learning approach in the context of professional education in IT and information management and describes an instructional model that augments the principles of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change, Educational Needs