Community engagement in higher education : : policy reforms and practice / / edited by W. James Jacob [and three others] ; contributors, Eiman Abokhodar [and thirty-two others].
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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| Superior document: | Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education ; Volume 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts ;, Taipei, Taiwan : : Sense Publishers,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pittsburgh studies in comparative and international education ;
Volume 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / W. James Jacob , Stewart E. Sutin , John C. Weidman and John L. Yeager
- Community Engagement in Higher Education / W. James Jacob , Stewart E. Sutin , John C. Weidman and John L. Yeager
- Divide and Conquer / Kassie Freeman
- Service-Learning and Disaster Recovery / Alex Johnson and David Hoovler
- Engaging Technology in University-Community Partnerships / Tatyana Dumova
- Building University-Community Partnerships / 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 / Tracy M. Soska
- Public Higher Education Performance in the United States / 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 / Seth S. Pollack
- Teachers College Partnership Schools Consortium / Kecia Hayes and Emily Zemke
- Evolution, Not Revolution / Anne C. Kaplan
- The Shape of Community Engagement in Urban Centers – Possibilities or Improbabilities / Carolyn M. Shields
- Knowledge Matters / Sumin LI and Dongfang Wang
- A Comparative and Empirical Study of Academic Service Activities / Futao Huang
- The Role of Maasai Mara University in Promoting Sustainable Development / David K. Serem and Augustine M. Kara
- Enhancing Community-University Engagement / 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 / Eiman S. Abokhodair
- Notes on Contributors / Linda Silka , Mario Teisl and James Settele
- Index / Linda Silka , Mario Teisl and James Settele.