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Herrera, Monica; Hoelting, Joyce – New Directions for Higher Education, 2010
In January 2003, the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) contacted land grant universities in Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington to involve them in a program initiative to address rural poverty. After a strategic planning process, NWAF had shifted from traditional grant making to operating programs that…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Poverty, Land Grant Universities, Extension Education
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Watterson, Nancy L.; Rademacher, Nicholas; Mace, Darryl C. – Journal of College and Character, 2012
This article examines relational ways of knowing--a concept both broad and deep--as a strategy we have infused throughout our design of one first-year Living and Learning Community (LLC). As outlined here, the authors teach faith as relationship; justice as being in just relationship with others, research as the concept of putting ideas in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Communities of Practice, Metacognition, Citizenship Responsibility
Justice, Madeline C.; Espinoza, Sue – 1999
Children in today's society must function in many environments. The home, family, school, neighborhood, peers, and society generally shape our children for the future. Teachers, partners of this cyclical challenge, have to be prepared to help students meet the challenges of the world 2000. Teachers can learn to meet this goal by creating learning…
Descriptors: Assignments, Community Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Environment
Stahl, Steven – 1999
This applied dissertation project was designed to improve communication systems among child care providers previously and currently enrolled in a statewide Child Development Associate (CDA) training program as a pilot project to promote communication among the statewide child care community as a whole. Communications systems within the CDA…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Community Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers