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Melissa R. Colangelo; Melanie Graham; Bhavika Sicka – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2024
If community colleges are to remain relevant, they must be future-oriented, and responsive to demographic and labor force shifts. The Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back initiative (G3) was implemented during the 2021-22 academic year to retain economically disadvantaged students, improve community college completion, and help students graduate into…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Human Capital, Job Skills
Payam Sheikhattari; Jummai Apata; Gillian Beth Silver; Shiva Mehravaran; Emma Mitchell; Shervin Assari – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective approach for addressing health disparities by integrating diverse knowledge and expertise from both academic and community partners throughout the research process. However, universities and funding agencies have not done enough to invest in the foundational infrastructure and resources…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Research
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Micek, Sidney S.; Cooper, Edward M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1978
Conceptualizes an approach for assessing community impact of community-based community college programs which considers the multiple communities which are potentially impacted; the educational, economic, sociocultural, political and technological impacts which are possible; the different ways of obtaining community-impact data; and the need for…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Study
College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA. – 1990
In November 1989, the College of the Canyons (CC) in Valencia, California, conducted a community survey of Santa Clarita Valley to determine residents' satisfaction with CC; use of CC services and facilities; perceptions of the value and performance of CC in six functional areas; perceptions of the quality of education; attitudes about fees, the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
New Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1978
This guide is designed as an outline of the means to broaden the context of education within a community and to serve its needs through community involvement in educational program planning. Part 1 is a discussion of the need and means for community collaboration, including maximizing use of existing educational facilities and community resources…
Descriptors: Administration, Boards of Education, Career Education, Community Benefits
Nussbaum, Claire A. – 1981
Community education programs have seldom presented quantitative data to validate the usefulness of the program. This study was an attempt to establish a beginning community education program while planning for quantitative evaluation from the initiation of the project. Based on a group process, community residents were involved in the development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Community Attitudes
Young, Malcolm B.; And Others – 1980
Intended to assist in the evaluation of community education programs, this guide is for program decision makers, primarily at the local level, including staff of school districts, park and recreation departments, other local and state agencies, and private citizens serving on community education boards and councils. Part 1, Evaluation and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Community Benefits
Arkansas Community Education Development Association, Little Rock. – 1982
Rural school districts in five Arkansas towns set up school-based development corporations (SBDCs) to provide vocational and career training relevant to the needs of rural high school students and the community and to improve the economic and social welfare of the community as a whole. Each SBDC owned and operated businesses using student labor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Benefits, Community Development, Definitions
Holdsworth, Roger; Stafford, John; Stokes, Helen; Tyler, Debra – 2001
Student Action Teams (SATs) were established in 20 Victoria, Australia, secondary schools in 1999, with 11 of those schools continuing with their teams in 2000. The Student Action Teams are comprised of groups of students who identify a school or community issue, research it, make plans and proposals about it, and take action on it. Such…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Benefits