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Community engagement in higher education : policy reforms and practice /

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 co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jacob, W. James (Editor ), Sutin, Stewart E. (Editor ), Weidman, John C., 1945- (Editor ), Yeager, John L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015.
Colección:Pittsburgh studies in comparative and international education ; volume 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Community engagement in higher education: international and local perspectives / W. James Jacob, Stewart E. Sutin, John C. Weidman, and John L. Yeager
  • Divide and conquer: long-term consequences for education, economic participation, and higher education engagement / Kassie Freeman
  • Service-learning and disaster recovery: implications for government, communities, and colleges / Alex Johnson and David Hoovler
  • Engaging technology in university-community partnerships / Tatyana Dumova
  • Building university-community partnerships: expectations and challenges / Maria Adamuti-Trache and Adrienne E. Hyle
  • Place-based approaches to engagement: can universities be local and global? / Linda Silka, Mario Teisl, and James Settele
  • University and communities in partnership: exploring the roots and current trends of higher education community engagement in the United States / Tracy M. Soska
  • Public higher education performance in the United States: a community perspective / Stewart E. Sutin and Kathryn Bethea
  • Service-learning as catalyst for integrating community engagement across core academic functions / Lina D. Dostilio and Dan Getkin
  • Critical civic literacy as an essential component of the undergraduate curriculum: the case of California State University, Monterey Bay / Seth S. Pollack
  • Teachers College Partnership Schools Consortium: a university-assisted schools model to achieve comprehensive educational opportunity / Kecia Hayes and Emily Zemke
  • Evolution, not revolution: building the engagement function one asset at a time / Anne C. Kaplan
  • The shape of community engagement in urban centers
  • possibilities or improbabilities: the case of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan / Carolyn M. Shields
  • Knowledge matters: the service mission of Chinese higher education institutions / Sumin Li and Dongfang Wang
  • A comparative and empirical study of academic service activities: a focus on Japan / Futao Huang
  • The role of Maasai Mara University in promoting sustainable development / David K. Serem and Augustine M. Kara
  • Enhancing community-university engagement: the case of Montemorelos University / Gustavo Gregorutti, Zeno L. Charles-Marcel, Wilma González, Géner Avilés, and Herbert Roel Cea
  • Action learning as an approach for developing leaders, solving problems, and building successful teams: a case study of Princess Nora Bint Abdul-Rahman University / Eiman S. Abokhodair.