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Castro, Katherine; Jacobs, Travis; Eden, Emilee; Thiese, Matthew S.; Hegmann, Kurt T.; Allen, Joseph A. – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
Academic Medical Centers (AMC) are unique healthcare resources that offer services to their local communities. As societal priorities shift, AMCs are identifying approaches to practice community engagement. Although many examples of AMCs exist in the literature, few have targeted resources for specific health topics like occupational health. This…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Medical Services, Universities, Occupational Safety and Health
Cunningham, Henry R.; Smith, Patrick C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2020
The University of Louisville guided the development of community engagement plans by its academic and administrative units to strengthen their ability to assess and improve their partnership, outreach, and engaged scholarship with community partners. Using a common template, each unit developed a process for engaging with the community, building…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Universities, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education
Nichols, Amy McCleese; Williams, Bronwyn T. – Community Literacy Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors chart ongoing efforts in the University of Louisville Writing Center to develop a partnership model grounded in "writing center values." A full description of what might constitute writing center values could include in-depth attention to the individual writer and all the varied intersectional contexts with…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Community Involvement, School Community Programs
Arnold, Chester; Barrett, Juliana; Campbell, Todd; Chrysochoou, Maria; Bompoti, Nefeli – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
An extensive faculty partnership at the University of Connecticut (UConn) that reaches across college and departmental lines is engaged in a project that seeks to enhance, expand, institutionalize, and study a new model for community engagement. The model, called the Environment Corps (E-Corps), combines the familiar elements of classroom…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, College Faculty, School Community Programs, Outreach Programs
O'Farrell, Paige; Liu, Hung-Ling – Education Sciences, 2020
The purpose of the study is to understand the challenges and opportunities of urban outdoor education centers in partnership and programming. The context for this study involves efforts by all-season outdoor education centers, Outdoor Campus (OC), in two urban areas in South Dakota (SD). Outdoor education scope and social-ecological framework were…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Partnerships in Education, Outreach Programs, Community Involvement
O'Meara, KerryAnn; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
This article considers the historical and current national context for integrating community engagement into graduate education. While it might be argued that most graduate education contributes generally to society by advancing knowledge, we are referring here to community engagement that involves some reciprocal interaction between graduate…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty, School Community Programs, Models
Morin, Shauna M.; Jaeger, Audrey J.; O'Meara, KerryAnn – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
In this article the authors reflect on KerryAnn O'Meara and Audrey Jaeger's 2006 article, "Preparing Future Faculty for Community Engagement: Barriers, Facilitators, Models, and Recommendations" (EJ1092909) reprinted in this 20th anniversary issue of "Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement." Ten years ago, O'Meara…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty, School Community Programs, Models
Brown, Kim; Shephard, Kerry; Warren, David; Hesson, Gala; Fleming, Jean – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Higher education institutions are seeking greater community engagement through academic, social and civic activity. In response, researcher attention has turned to impacts on students' education, and benefits to both university and community partners. This phenomenographic study examines how a diverse group of teachers, researchers and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reciprocal Teaching, Service Learning, Outreach Programs
Plante, Jarrad; Truitt, Joshua – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2016
The Volunteer UCF Community Connectors and Community Builders Program provides a connection between students and their community. The goal is to develop meaningful service opportunities for UCF students that contribute measurable results and systemic change through capacity building among adult learners. The ongoing, sustainable service experience…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Mentors, Capacity Building, Internship Programs
Scherer, Lisa L.; Graeve-Cunningham, Victoria M.; Trent, Sheridan B.; Weddington, Stephanie A.; Thurley, Adam R.; Prange, Kelly A.; Allen, Joseph A. – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
The Volunteer Program Assessment at UNO (VPA-UNO), a faculty-led student group, partners with nonprofit and governmental agencies to provide free assessments and consultations to enhance volunteer engagement, organizational commitment and retention. Three recent initiatives are discussed representing an intentional effort of a metropolitan…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, College Students, Metropolitan Areas, Service Learning
Mfum-Mensah, Obed; Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article reports on a study of community participation in School "for" Life, a complementary education programme operating in northern Ghana. The researchers investigated three components of community participation: the nature of the mechanisms used to engage community members as participants in the education process; the actors who…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Outreach Programs, Change Agents
Holton, Valerie L.; Jettner, Jennifer F.; Early, Jennifer L.; Shaw, Kathleen K. – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
Universities increasingly see community engagement as a means to achieve their mission. In order to assess the impact of these efforts, it is necessary to gather and analyze data from across the institution on community-engaged activities. This article presents a case study of Virginia Commonwealth University's efforts in developing enterprise…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Colleges, Case Studies, School Community Relationship
Dwyer-White, Molly; Choate, Celeste; Markel, Dorene S – Health Education Journal, 2015
Background: Increasingly clinical and health research awareness is a priority for health and medical research communities. Translational research, including the prevention and treatment of conditions, relies upon proper funding as well as public participation in research studies. This requires executing more effective communication strategies to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Research Skills, Outreach Programs, Social Networks
Fitzgerald, Glynis A. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2012
Researchers endorse the integration of community engagement (CE) into higher education as a way to improve the relevance of education, address community needs, and forge university-community partnerships (Zlotkowski, 1996). CE can help create stronger ties between universities and their communities and provide students with experiential learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Experiential Learning, School Community Relationship, Community Needs
Sandmann, Lorilee R.; Jordan, Jenny W.; Mull, Casey D.; Valentine, Thomas – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Community engagement professionals and partners serve as, work with, study, and build the capacity of boundary spanners. To augment knowledge about these functions, the Weerts-Sandmann Boundary Spanning Conceptual Framework (2010) has been operationalized through a survey instrument to examine community engagement boundary-spanning behaviors by…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Change Agents, Community Involvement, Employee Attitudes