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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"University-community partnerships"”.
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Challenges of Unequal Power Distribution in University -Community Partnerships
… works with the strongest groups within the community. My research supports the literature that states that lack of conscious attention to gender disparities will lead to products that are not inclusive of the needs of women and other minority groups, beyond the common good.
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University-Community Partnerships: An Action-Humanities Approach to Addressing Homelessness
… of the function of the 21st century Canadian university and how it engages with communities to address social issues such as homelessness. The study looks at university projects that address homelessness, scholarly literature, websites, and primary data as collected through a survey sent out …
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The Role and Structure of Mediating Entities in University-Community Partnerships: An Examination of Urban Routes
… entities in overcoming barriers found in many university-community partnerships, which arise out of unequal power, a lack of mutual understanding, and divergent agendas of the partners. In order to develop a theory or model of the functions and structure of these mediating entities, this thesis …
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In pursuit of continuity : engaged scholarship for personal and institutional transformation
… Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) grant program sought to provide colleges and universities an actionable means of integrating professionalism and service through collaborative work with communities into their institutional agendas. …
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Exploring the Impact of Personality Awareness and Personality-based Influencing Preferences on the Perceived Influence Capacity of New Leaders in Higher Education Community-engaged Practice
… needs of new administrators engaged in community-engaged scholarship (CES) within higher education institutions. As these individuals transition from entrepreneurial, autonomous roles to formal administrative positions, they often lack essential competencies in areas such as project …
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Development of a framework to guide community engagement in paramedic education and training in the Western Cape
… high emergency care caseloads. In such settings, community engagement, as a key function of the higher education mandate, presents an opportunity for strengthening university-community partnerships for reciprocal benefits through undergraduate emergency medical care education. This study was …
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University-community relations and the need for a representational discourse : exploring town-gown at the University of Pennsylvania
This thesis examines university-community relations, arguing that the current discourse requires rigorous theoretical attention to the use of representation in media and in physical design to adequately gauge and understand this relationship. Modeled after Naomi Carmon's framework of urban …
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Serving where we stand : specialty health care clinics and community engagement at a faith-based, urban anchor institution
… to understand how an urban, faith-based university's on-campus health care clinics engage with the community and how they support the overall anchor mission of the university. The study reviewed three on-campus, specialty health care clinics and addressed the following questions: What …
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A study on city-university partnerships for smart city technologies
… Cities." The MetroLab Network, a consortium of partnerships involving cities and their universities, was announced as part of the Initiative. In order to join the Network, university-city partners had to agree to follow a set of rules and procedures to govern their partnership. This research …
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Exploring town-gown developmental paradigms : A case of University of Venda's 'Univen Town concept'
University towns or town gown relationships are increasingly becoming an accepted developmental narrative between institutions of higher learning and their host communities. The University of Venda was mandated by the Honourable Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr. Blade Nzimande, in …
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Natural Product Discovery from a Streamline Environment-to-Bioassay Pipeline
… scalability and accessibility also enabled community-based NP discovery. Chapter 3 describes a STEM outreach program with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, where middle school students conducted hands-on biomedical research, explored STEM careers, and built mentorship connections. …
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Relational reinvention : writing, engagement, and mapping as wicked response
… I analyze the ongoing efforts of the Mart Community Project (MCP), a cohort of Mart residents, international artists, and students and instructors from a variety of departments at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the past two years, the MCP has engaged in over twenty-five discrete …
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Science to support toxics governance : tracking mercury and other pollutants from policy to impacts
… and approaches-from atmospheric modelling to community engaged research-to better trace this path from policy to human impacts, in support of environmental decision-making at multiple levels of governance. Combining simulation modelling, statistical, and qualitative approaches, it considers …
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Understanding the Factors Associated with Engaged Scholarship: A Case Study of Sociologists in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana
… sector, one of the major objectives of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) is to establish partnerships with both local and international communities and organizations in ways that simultaneously enhance academic scholarship and socioeconomic development. For this reason, this study examined …