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University Research Centers as Knowledge Translation Platforms: Leveraging Structure, Support and Resources to Enhance Multisectoral Collaboration and Advocacy
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Valmeekanathan, Akshara; Babcock, Carly; Ling, Brenton; Davey-Rothwell, Melissa A.; Holtgrave, David R.; Jessani, Nasreen S. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2021
Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTPs) have drawn attention as multidisciplinary institutional structures that broker evidence to policy and practice. University Research Centers (URCs) appear to serve as internal KTPs by fostering research collaboration as well as advocacy. This study's aim was to examine URCs within one American School of Public…
Descriptors: Universities, Research and Development Centers, Public Health, Evidence Based Practice
A Framework for Justice-Centering Relationships and Understanding Impact in Higher Education Community Engagement
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Melissa M. Quan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Community engagement in higher education has been promoted as critical to fulfilling higher education's responsibility to the public good through teaching, learning, and knowledge generation. Reciprocity and mutual benefit are key principles of community engagement that connote a two-way exchange of knowledge and shared power and decision making.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Justice, Higher Education, Stakeholders
Social Annotation for Power Negotiation
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Julie Rosenthal; Emily Carlisle-Johnston; Timothy Turriff – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
Social annotation and role-play are two pedagogical approaches that promote active, student-centred learning. In this paper, we report on how the two approaches were combined in a senior-level university course that aimed to reveal the multiple dimensions and complexity of policy development and decision-making for natural resource management. We…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
R&D Characteristics and Organizational Structure: Case Studies of University-Industry Research Centers
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Hart, Maureen McArthur – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Within the past few decades, university-industry research centers have been developed in large numbers and emphasized as a valuable policy tool for innovation. Yet little is known about the heterogeneity of organizational structure within these centers, which has implications regarding policy for and management of these centers. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research and Development, Research and Development Centers, Group Structure
Why Taiwanese Companies and Foundations Donate to Public Colleges and Universities in Taiwan: An Investigation of Donation Incentives, Strategies, and Decision-Making Processes
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Lin, Hsien Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this investigation was to build the blueprint of Taiwanese public higher education's fundraising. This study applied three surveys (NSH, NSC, and NSF) to three populations' samples (public universities, corporations, and foundations in Taiwan) as well as qualitative interviews toward these three populations in order to explore…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Investigations, Universities
The University as a Land Developer.
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Fink, Ira – Planning for Higher Education, 1983
To assist universities in developing or redeveloping surplus campus or endowment property, these factors in the process are outlined and discussed: development decisions, working with a developer, ground leasing, unrelated taxable income issues, creating a university land management office, some recent experiences, and research and development…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Capital, College Planning, College Role