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Tracy X. P. Zou; Dai Hounsell; Quentin A. Parker; Ben Y. B. Chan – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of four cross-institutional teaching enhancement projects (TEPs), a relatively new form of professional collaboration. The focus is on the impact at departmental, institutional and cross-institutional levels because such impact is the main reason for establishing cross-institutional TEPs.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Institutional Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
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Diane M. Doberneck; Alexa R. Warwick; Barbara A. Avers; Emily F. Pomeranz – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
State wildlife agency professionals are realizing they need new mindsets and practices for collaboration with diverse stakeholders and community partners to achieve policy, management, science, and education goals. This realization led to a partnership between a state agency, a land-grant university's outreach and engagement office, and University…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Professional Development, Program Development
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Birney, Lauren; McNamara, Denise; Evans, Brian; Woods, Nancy; Hill, Jonathan – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
This paper identifies the complex interactions of a multi-member partnership and outlines the synergetic opportunities and challenges within the model. At the core of the partnership model is the restoration of the waterways surrounding New York City through the reestablishment of the oyster into New York Harbor. The overarching goal was to…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Conservation (Environment), Municipalities, Cooperative Programs
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Garber, Mel; Adams, Katherine R. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
Collective impact is a model for achieving tangible change and improvement in communities through a series of well-defined parameters of collaboration. This article provides a 10-year reflection on the University of Georgia Archway Partnership, a university-community collaboration, in the context of the parameters of collective impact. Emphasis is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Models, Outreach Programs
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Dalrymple, Sarah E.; Auerbach, Anna Jo; Schussler, Elisabeth E. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Many undergraduate institutions are reforming their courses to increase student engagement. A critical challenge in these efforts is to engage the academic community beyond the instructors in the process of change. At our university, we embraced this challenge by creating a volunteer community of faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Introductory Courses, Biology
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Duffy, Gavin; Gallagher, Tony – Research Papers in Education, 2015
This paper examines an initiative promoting collaboration between schools located in a city setting in Northern Ireland, which is broadly divided along ethnic and political lines. The schools involved, like the vast majority of schools in Northern Ireland, educate Protestant and Catholic children separately. This presents particular challenges for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Programs, Urban Schools
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McKinnis, David R.; Sloan, Mary Anne; Snow, L. David; Garimella, Suresh V. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The Purdue Technical Assistance Program (TAP) offers a model of university engagement and service that is achieving technology adoption and performance improvement impacts in healthcare, manufacturing, government, and other sectors. The TAP model focuses on understanding and meeting the changing and challenging needs of those served, always…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technical Assistance, Health Services, Manufacturing
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Ampartzaki, Maria; Kypriotaki, Maria; Voreadou, Catherine; Dardioti, Antonia; Stathi, Iasmi – Educational Action Research, 2013
This study explores the integration of two key ideas and working frameworks: a community of educational practice formed by the synergy between a natural history museum and a university department of pre-school education, which undertook participatory action research aimed at the creation of innovative museum programmes for young children. Data…
Descriptors: Museums, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Communities of Practice
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Tatro, Clayton N.; Hodson, J. Bradford – New Directions for Higher Education, 2011
When Kansas changed the admission requirements for resident high school students to attend one of the six public institutions in the state, Pittsburg State University (PSU) and Fort Scott Community College (FSCC) saw an opportunity. Although cooperative programs between four-year and two-year institutions in Kansas had been rare because of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Admission Criteria, Economic Impact
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Wallace, Paul; Howard, Barbara – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
Students working on a highly collaborative project used social networking technology for community building activities as well as basic project-related communication. Requiring students to work on cross-program projects gives them real-world experience working in diverse, geographically dispersed groups. An application used at Appalachian State…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Programs, Educational Strategies
Northwest Education, 1998
School-community collaborations are partnerships that can take different forms and serve many purposes. An overview of some partnership models is provided in this text. It shows how schools can play a central role in the revitalization of a community by serving as community centers and by fostering school-based enterprises. Ways in which students…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stevenson, John F.; Mitchell, Roger E. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2003
Reviews the literature on the roles of community-wide collaboration in substance abuse prevention. Three broad strategies through which collaboration may have its effects are identified. Alternative theories of effects, means of measurement, and results and conclusions from studies of collaborative interventions for prevention are discussed.…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Role, Cooperative Programs, Integrated Services
Wilson, Richard W. – Executive Educator, 1987
Describes application of a preschool education program in an Ortonville, Michigan, school district. The six programs are grouped in the same location, meet a variety of needs, and are part of a larger community cluster. Combining programs benefits both children and adults. (CJH)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Early Childhood Education, Individual Needs
Meyers, James M.; Pigg, Kenneth – Rural Sociologist, 1990
Discusses current problems for cooperative extension services, particularly regarding relevance and effectiveness of extension education programs. Suggests extension programs develop research-based knowledge to improve practices and technology for social and economic change. Describes alternative model of services beyond information dissemination.…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Needs, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences. – 1978
This volume contains nine case studies describing the initial two-year experiences of local governments in implementing the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). (An earlier volume published eight similar area studies on the transition from federally centralized to decentralized manpower programs.) Written by resident field…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Control, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
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