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C. Nadine Wathen; James Shelley; Makayla N. Gomes; Aya Mohamed; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Finding ways to move knowledge-to-impact is a key priority for research funding agencies, universities, and academics. However, academic engagement with the broader community is not without tensions and challenges, including arriving at mutual benefit and relevance, and addressing power dynamics and often incompatible communication practices. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, College Faculty
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Massey, Jennifer; Gouthro, Karla – Assessment Update, 2011
The Community Outreach Centre (COC) is part of the Community Development portfolio in the Division of Student Affairs at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It opened in fall 2007 as a resource and support centre for students who live off campus. The overarching goal of the centre is to cultivate community among off-campus students…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Focus Groups, Community Involvement, Program Effectiveness
Johnson, John – Educational Broadcasting International, 1974
Article describes new techniques that have been developed for community access at a cable television station and suggests ways they could be adapted for overseas application. (Author/HB)
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Community Involvement, Community Services, Developing Nations
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Krebs, Virginia – Community and Junior College Journal, 1974
Discussed a program of group discussion, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, a New York-based, non-partisan organization for world affairs education, that may have all the features needed to enhance its community service involvement with a minimum of staff and expense. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Community Services, Foreign Policy
Illinois Univ., Urbana. – 1967
Societal needs and demands, together with the increasing interdependence between the university and its environment have forced the university to reassess its relationship to the wider community and reexamine its service responsibilities. The service function has become an integral and essential part of the academic scene, inseparable from…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Extension Education, Higher Education
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Schene, Patricia A. – Future of Children, 1998
The history of child protection in the United States is marked by an unresolved tension between rescuing young children from abusive homes and strengthening the care their families can provide. The structure of the typical child protective effort is described against this backdrop. Deciding when intervention is necessary and mobilizing community…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Involvement, Community Services
Collyer, Gilbert A.; Greenleaf, George – 1975
A citizens task force of 25 persons representing the geographic areas and population of Shasta College (Redding, California) district was organized to propose goals for Shasta College in providing services for the older adult population in the district, and to make recommendations concerning a comprehensive continuing program to achieve these…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Community Services
Fightmaster, Walter J. – 1973
Five objectives of any comprehensive Community Services program are to: (1) provide educational services for all age and occupational groups, utilizing the skills and knowledge of college staff and outside experts, (2) take educational, cultural, and recreational activities to the total community, (3) become a center of community life, (4) provide…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Community Services
Tanck, James – 1969
This manual describes a variety of approaches a college or university can take to support student volunteers. It summarizes 6 models of volunteer programs currently in use on campuses and describes in detail a seventh "comprehensive" model that allows the school to assist and give general direction but permits students freedom to run their own…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services, Higher Education
Conning, Carmela A.; Cook, Jeannie – 1997
This paper summarizes the various visually-oriented and informational projects that were developed to enhance the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the town of Cody (Wyoming). Some of the projects that were developed included: (1) a slide show presentation detailing Cody's growth from 1896 to the 1920s; (2) a pictorial…
Descriptors: Archives, Community Characteristics, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
Kinzer, Allen O. – 1973
A review of the literature on community service programs in the community college is provided. Emphasized in the review are: characteristics and motives of adult students, community involvement, program planning and administration, community analysis, types of community service functions, and community service program assessment and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Community Colleges
Mullin, Virginia I.; Gottschalk, Kurt P. – 1972
A model for community services that stresses the necessity and value of community involvement in the planning of community service activities is presented. The role of the community service sector of the educational institution is to establish a center which will provide leadership in uniting and coordinating community efforts to meet individual…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
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Schonleber, E. J. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1977
Tells how to plan a successful community forum. (DC)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services
Schwanke, Dean – 1979
An overview is presented of school programs that utilize the resources of the local community as an educational tool. Examples are presented of ways in which successful field trip programs have been organized and administered. Included in this report are citations of articles and documents available from the ERIC information system. (JD)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Community Services, Cooperative Planning
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Story, Marilyn – 1976
The author provides 20 abstracts of programs capable of being implemented in a community. These programs, based in Black Hawk County, Iowa, were developed by helping professionals in an institute at The University of Northern Iowa in dialogue with older adults. The objectives of this institute were: (1) to improve communication between dissimilar…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Cooperative Planning, Educational Gerontology
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