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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"University engagement"”.
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Engagement Management: A Case Study of the Criteria and Processes Used to Identify, Evaluate, and Communicate Program Expectations for University Partnerships
<p>Over the years, American public university outreach and engagement programs and activities have been defined and managed in many different ways and at varying levels within the institutions. Some universities clearly define complex outreach and engagement objectives and visions in their mission …
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Service learning: a study of administrators' goals at a Research I university
… of a service learning program at a Research I university. This research was aimed at discovering administrators' goals and determining whether or not these goals were achieved, as perceived by students, administrators, community service agency directors, and faculty members. A structured, …
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Evaluating the effect an anchor institution can have on a small shrinking city : a case study of Albion College and Albion, MI
… Dubb in their book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crosswords. Using this taxonomy, the thesis evaluates seven key issues and determines that Albion College is primarily acting as a leader on its community engagement efforts. However, on some key issues, the College is …
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“My Stomach Churns”: Belonging and Strategies for Belonging for BME Students in a White University
Student engagement and more recently belonging are concepts that have been used to explain awarding gaps for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students. However, Trowler (2010) asserts that much of the student engagement literature is essentialist in nature and treats minority groups as homogeneous. …
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“My Stomach Churns”: Belonging and Strategies for Belonging for BME Students in a White University
Student engagement and more recently belonging are concepts that have been used to explain awarding gaps for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students. However, Trowler (2010) asserts that much of the student engagement literature is essentialist in nature and treats minority groups as homogeneous. …
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How commencement of part-time study impacts on the lifeworld of mature students
… students applying for courses may mean that university income will become reliant on students completing courses and so retention will assume greater significance. At the university at the centre of this research 62% of all withdrawals on part-time foundation degrees occur within the first …
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Success and attrition of students on a science Foundation Year: an exploratory study of their experiences in a mixed-methods framework
… Year programmes in the UK provide a pre-university year of study and increasingly serve as the primary route into Higher Education for students lacking appropriate academic entry qualifications. Prevailing research to address high attrition rates has centred on first-year students, with …
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Democratically Engaged Community-University Partnerships: Reciprocal Determinants of Democratically Oriented Roles and Processes
Despite calls for concerted, two-way engagement and for the development of reciprocal partnerships between institutions of higher education (IHE's) and their communities, IHE's continue to implement a disparate menu of activities that prove largely ineffective at addressing society's most …