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Gilmore, Melinda, Ed.; Nielsen, Randall, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2017
The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit, operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. The foundation seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. Each issue of this annual newsletter…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Neighborhoods, Child Rearing
US Department of Education, 2012
Today, the U.S. Department of Education joins the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, the American Commonwealth Partnership, and the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools in a new national call to action to infuse and enhance civic learning and democratic engagement for all students throughout the American…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
Bivins, Danny; Cassity, Pratt – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
Citizen participation and community education are critical to encouraging attractive and sustainable growth. The Alliance for Quality Growth (AQG), housed at the University of Georgia, was formed to increase awareness and understanding of the wide variety of planning and growth management tools available, including the charrette, a proven…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Education, Community Development, Partnerships in Education
Bridger, Jeffrey C.; Alter, Theodore R. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
America's universities are facing unprecedented scrutiny and criticism. As pressure for institutional change has mounted, universities have taken steps to more effectively respond to the needs of their stakeholders. All of these activities are part of a broad movement to develop new and productive connections between the university and its…
Descriptors: Community Development, Higher Education, Universities, Scholarship
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007
In the more than 10 years since the inception of EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) Brownfields Program, brownfields have been redefined. Properties that were shunned or eyed warily by those with the resources to transform them are now viewed as dormant opportunities for economic and environmental rebirth. Communities that suffered aesthetic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Student Attitudes, Land Use, Hazardous Materials
Reardon, Kenneth M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2005
This article describes the origins, evolution, and development of a comprehensive civic engagement program designed to encourage Ivy League students to pursue public service careers with nonprofits and municipal government organizations serving New York City's poorest children, families, and neighborhoods. The article offers a detailed description…
Descriptors: Leaders, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Neighborhoods
Robinson, Gail; Barnett, Lynn – 1996
To determine the level of involvement in service learning among community colleges, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a national survey of over 1,100 colleges in spring 1995. The following institutional and program profile, based on responses from 773 institutions, emerged from the survey: (1) four out of five…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Community Education

Pestello, Frances G.; And Others – Teaching Sociology, 1996
Describes a community-based model for undergraduate education that employs the concept of the citizen scholar. Citizen scholars integrate their academic activities of teaching, research, and community service into a coordinated whole. Discusses development of this model, and the implications and effects of its implementation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Community Action, Community Development
Young, Ken M. – 1980
A community-based education program enables rural communities to meet needs and solve problems by utilizing the total community environment and its human resources. Components of this program are: (1) expanded use of school facilities; (2) lifelong learning and enrichment programs; (3) interagency coordination, cooperation, and collaboration; (4)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Development
American Country Life Association, Sioux Falls, SD. – 1966
In an attempt to reveal the many external influences (e.g., economic, social, and spiritual) affecting a rural community and to bring about understanding of the evolving complex society of the rural-urban community brought about by advanced technology, the American Country Life Association's annual conference dealt with some of the parameters…
Descriptors: Church Role, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Role
Mueller, E. W. – 1971
ASCILOS, an acronym for a symbiotic community in the land of the Sioux, is a new land settlement pattern designed by the Center for Community Organization and Area Development (CENCOAD), sponsored by Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ASCILOS covers a 60-mile radius around Sioux Falls. ASCILOS, based on symbiosis in nature, assumes that…
Descriptors: Church Role, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Attitudes
Decker, Larry E., Ed.; Decker, Virginia A., Ed. – 1977
This compilation of articles presents the views of policy makers and administrators about community education. Following the introduction by Larry Decker titled "Community Education: The Basic Tenets," the articles are contained in three sections. Section 1 (The Potential of Community Education) contains articles titled as follows: "Tomorrow's…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Education