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Direct linkEconopouly, Bethany F.; Byrne, Patrick F.; Johnson, Marc A. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2010
The use of case studies in college courses can increase student engagement with the subject matter and improve analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Case studies were introduced in a relatively large (54 students) undergraduate world food and population course at Colorado State University in the spring semester of 2008 and…
Descriptors: Food Service, Case Studies, Learning Experience, Communication Skills
Download full textCHOATE, ROBERT B.; FRANK, LORRAINE G. – 1965
THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONFERENCE WAS TO BRING TOGETHER AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND GROUPS CONCERNED WITH POVERTY IN SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES OF 53 ORGANIZATIONS MET IN TUCSON TO LEARN OF POVERTY FROM THE POOR. DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE OF ANGLO, INDIAN, NEGRO, AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN BACKGROUNDS WERE HEARD IN A FORMAT SIMILAR TO THAT…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disadvantaged, Educational Responsibility, English (Second Language)
Adams, William T., Ed. – 1965
To be used as teaching aids, these interviews were developed in a training program for VISTA volunteers in Monte Vista, Colorado, during the summer of 1965. The instructors, whose comments constitute a major scope of the document were mothers, ex-delinquents, school dropouts, and young unwed mothers from the poverty area. It is felt that this…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Media, Educational Problems
Higman, Howard; And Others – 1965
A 1965 summer training program for 90 VISTA volunteers at Monte Vista, Colorado, is described and evaluated in this report. The program was designed to prepare VISTA trainees to work in poverty areas by providing individual helping services and by planning and organizing community action. The trainees lived and worked in Monte Vista, a small…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
