Communities Of Universities

Author : Paul Benneworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9400792743

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University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities by Paul Benneworth Pdf

This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledge economy for formerly excluded groups. The authors assess the extent to which the ‘Academy’ can deliver on its promise to build bridges with communities whose young people often assume that higher education lies beyond their ambitions. The chapters map the core dynamics of the relationship between higher education and communities which have bucked the more general trend of rapidly rising student numbers. Contributors also take the opportunity to reflect on the potential impact of these dynamics on the evolution of the university’s role as a social institution. The volume was inspired by a symposium attended by a wide spectrum of participants, including government, senior university managers, academic researchers and community groups based in areas suffering from social exclusion. It makes a substantive contribution to an under-researched field, with authors seeking to both shape solutions as well as better diagnose the problem. Some chapters include valuable contextual analysis, using empirical data from North America, Europe and Australia to add substance to the debates on policy and theory. The volume seeks to offer a defining intellectual statement on the interaction between the concept of a ‘university’ and those communities historically missing from higher education participation, the volume deepens our understanding of what might characterise an ‘engaged’ university and strengthens the theoretical foundations of the topic.

Author : Tracy Soska,Alice K. Johnson Butterfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780789028358

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University-community Partnerships by Tracy Soska,Alice K. Johnson Butterfield Pdf

Examines the roles that social workers have played in the expanding efforts by universities to respond to the social, economic, educational, health & civic needs of their local & regional communities.

Author : James Arthur,Karen Bohlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134312177

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Citizenship and Higher Education by James Arthur,Karen Bohlin Pdf

This comparative text considers models of higher education in the UK and the US and individuals' perceptions about the role of university in society.

Author : Irving J. Spitzberg,Virginia V. Thorndike
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791410056

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Creating Community on College Campuses by Irving J. Spitzberg,Virginia V. Thorndike Pdf

Creating Community on College Campuses addresses the most critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s: improving the quality of teaching and learning, raising academic standards, protecting freedom of expression, and simultaneously enhancing community of the whole and community of the parts. This book offers an understanding of community as a complex concept, one that incorporates the values of a democratic society and encourages learning and participation by all citizens of the campus, and discusses topics such as race and ethnicity, the climate for women, harassment and free speech, alcohol, crime, Greek life, and interaction among faculty and students. The authors conclude with concrete recommendations to support the implementation of pluralistic learning communities on our nation's campuses.

Author : Ashby Eric
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001518632

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communities of universities by Ashby Eric Pdf

Author : W. James Jacob,Stewart E. Sutin,John C. Weidman,John L. Yeager
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463000079

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Community Engagement in Higher Education by W. James Jacob,Stewart E. Sutin,John C. Weidman,John L. Yeager Pdf

There seems to be renewed interest in having universities and other higher education institutions engage with their communities at the local, national, and international levels. But what is community engagement? Even if this interest is genuine and widespread, there are many different concepts of community service, outreach, and engagement. The wide range of activity encompassed by community engagement suggests that a precise definition of the “community mission” is difficult and organizing and coordinating such activities is a complex task. This edited volume includes 18 chapters that explore conceptual understandings of community engagement and higher education reforms and initiatives intended to foster it. Contributors provide empirical research findings, including several case study examples that respond to the following higher educaiton community engagement issues. What is “the community” and what does it need and expect from higher education institutions? Is community engagement a mission of all types of higher education institutions or should it be the mission of specific institutions such as regional or metropolitan universities, technical universities, community colleges, or indigenous institutions while other institutions such as major research universities should concentrate on national and global research agendas and on educating internationally-competent researchers and professionals? How can a university be global and at the same time locally relevant? Is it, or should it be, left to the institutions to determine the scope and mode of their community engagement, or is a state mandate preferable and feasible? If community engagement or “community service” are mandatory, what are the consequences of not complying with the mandate? How effective are policy mandates and university engagement for regional and local economic development? What are the principal features and relationships of regionally-engaged universities? Is community engagement to be left to faculty members and students who are particularly socially engaged and locally embedded or is it, or should it be, made mandatory for both faculty and students? How can community engagement be (better) integrated with the (other) two traditional missions of the university—research and teaching? Cover image: The Towering Four-fold Mission of Higher Education, by Natalie Jacob

Author : William F. Tate
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442204683

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Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities by William F. Tate Pdf

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand the strengths of and problems in our communities. Today, many research literatures--e.g., health, housing, transportation, and education--focus on civic progress, yet rarely are there efforts to interrelate these literatures to better understand urgent problems and promising possibilities in education, wherein social context is central. In this volume, social context--in particular, the unequal opportunities that result from geography--is integral to the arguments, analyses, and case studies presented. Written by more than 40 educational scholars from top universities across the nation, the research presented in this volume provides historical, moral, and scientifically based arguments with the potential to inform understandings of civic problems associated with education, youth, and families, and to guide the actions of responsible citizens and institutions dedicated to advancing the public good.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Ubiratã Tortato,Fernanda Frankenberger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030303068

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Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 by Walter Leal Filho,Ubiratã Tortato,Fernanda Frankenberger Pdf

The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).

Author : Christopher S. Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319452227

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University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific by Christopher S. Collins Pdf

This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society. The authors argue that, unlike an individual degree, these are public benefits that should be focused upon and featured more readily so that the breadth of university benefits come to be better understood.

Author : Patricia Inman,Hans Georg Schütze
Publisher : Niace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Community and college
ISBN : 1862014574

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The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universities by Patricia Inman,Hans Georg Schütze Pdf

The untapped energy of universities and other institutions of higher education to address regional issues seems endless. Issues less defined by political boundaries, and increasingly defined by place, call for a new type of engagement. Generating knowledge with communities, rather than for communities, contrasts sharply with traditional university attitudes that offer expertise rather than appreciation of indigenous knowledge. This highly topical book addresses the widespread discussion about the regional community function of universities, with particular emphasis on economic and social development, discussing the challenges of engagement, but also the possibilities. Developing policy with such a worldview requires new skills focusing on developing relationships and facilitating collaboration. Finding common ground between diverse stakeholders requires innovation and a new set of tools. The book discusses the obstacles to collaboration and provides strategies for addressing these. The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universities will be essential reading for international researchers, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with higher education and government. It provides a foundation for understanding the concepts of both regional policy and engaged higher education institutions. In addition to the theoretical insights gained into the new relationship between universities and communities, the book also illustrates the theory with experiences and innovative examples from well-known institutions of higher education. "This book is an excellent guide to a new era of community-university relationships. It demonstrates in theory and practice that productive relationships depend upon understanding the assets of local communities and connecting them with the supportive assets of universities." - John McKnight, Co-Director, Asset-Based Community Development Inst., Northwestern U., Illinois

Author : Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787950446

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Building Community in Schools by Thomas J. Sergiovanni Pdf

"Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of 'community' as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. . . . Teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and communities seeking advice and motivation for restructuring schools for the 21st century would be well advised to consult this work." --Choice "Provides the practitioner with both a theoretical blueprint with which to build learning communities and a rich supply of benchmark illustrations to use as prototypes. . . . thought-provoking and challenging." --NASSP Bulletin Both in and out of schools, people are experiencing a loss of community. In this book, Thomas J. Sergiovanni explains why a sense of community is so vital to the success of any school and shows teachers, parents, and administrators what they can do to rebuild it. Filled with case studies and other school examples, Building Community in Schools provides the necessary intellectual framework for understanding the need to create communities that are inclusive, meaningful, and democratic.

Author : Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674368286

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Redesigning America’s Community Colleges by Thomas R. Bailey,Shanna Smith Jaggars,Davis Jenkins Pdf

Community colleges enroll half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet only 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree in six years. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges explains how two-year colleges can increase their students’ success rate quickly and at less cost, through a program of guided pathways to completion.

Author : Thomas, Ursula
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799832874

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Cases on Strategic Partnerships for Resilient Communities and Schools by Thomas, Ursula Pdf

As the importance of public education increases both globally and nationally, partnerships between schools and their community become key to each other's success. Examining the intersection of schools with their communities reveals the most effective strategies for supporting school populations that are traditionally marginalized or underserved in both rural and urban areas. Cases on Strategic Partnerships for Resilient Communities and Schools is an essential publication that uncovers the problems and pitfalls of creating strategic partnerships between schools and other members of the community in which the schools are situated that include for-profit businesses, not-for-profit entities, and private organizations. The book reveals that schools that are thriving effectively do not do so in isolation but as vibrant members and centers of the communities in which they serve students and families. Moreover, it examines the difficulty in advocating for the schools and the leadership of the schools within these communities so that they can be better served. Highlighting a wide range of topics including leadership, community-based outreach, and school advocacy, this book is ideally designed for teachers, school administrators, principals, school boards and committees, non-profit administrators, educational advocates, leadership faculty, community engagement directors, community outreach personnel, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : David J. Maurrasse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135959012

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Beyond the Campus by David J. Maurrasse Pdf

The role of the university and its relationship to the community has long been a highly debated topic among educators, administrators, and local business leaders. David J. Maurrasse offers a passionate appeal for community partnerships. Going further than a simple explanation of the problems at hand, Beyond the Campus offers a road map for both universities and local institutions to work together for the good of their communities.

Author : John S. Levin,Susan Kater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415881265

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Understanding Community Colleges by John S. Levin,Susan Kater Pdf

Understanding Community Colleges provides a comprehensive review of the community college landscape--management and governance, finance, student demographics and development, teaching and learning, policy, faculty, and workforce development--and bridges the gap between research and practice. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars in the field who rely upon substantial theoretical perspectives--critical theory, social theory, institutional theory, and organizational theory--for a rich and expansive analysis of community colleges. The latest text to publish in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series, this exciting new text fills a gap in the higher education literature available for students enrolled in Higher Education and Community College graduate programs. This text provides students with: A review of salient research related to the community college field. Critical theoretical perspectives underlying current policies. An understanding of how theory links to practice, including focused end-of-chapter discussion questions. A fresh examination of emerging issues and insight into contemporary community college practices and policy.