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Showing 1 to 20 of 500 for “"community engagement"”.
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The unseen community engagement professional: a heuristic inquiry of community engagement professionals at higher education associations
… experiences of individuals who self-identify as community engagement professionals but work outside higher education institutions, specifically at higher education associations. This study utilized Meyerson & Scully’s (1995) tempered radical’s framework coupled with the CEP boundary spanning …
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Legitimacy and Belonging: Community Engagement in Higher Education
This dissertation is concerned with a move toward community engagement within academia generally, and more specifically the concepts of legitimacy and belonging in engagement practices. My work contributes to a relatively recent shift toward community engagement classifications and designations for …
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Community engagement in social entrepreneurship: evidence from Kenya
… each other, normally through a high level of engagement. While the literature has well-documented the critical roles local communities play in the success of social enterprises, our understanding of how social enterprises (proactively) engage local communities is limited. Many social …
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Strategic Community Engagement as Perceived by Five Superintendents
… long-term mandates by engaging the greater community. Thus, any superintendent who is planning on improving student academic achievement and being employed in the district long-term will find it imperative to engage the community and develop community partnerships. This study utilized …
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University community engagement in Zimbabwe : an asset-based analysis
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Education, Durban University of Technology, 2018.
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Knowledge Mobilization: Local Community Engagement, Sustainability, and Adaptive Governance
… The key research question considers if and how community social learning can be advanced through ecomuseums within the system of adaptive governance. This project offers several key contributions to both the literature and society by using a community-based approach that addresses major aspects …
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Engineering community engagement partnerships: Investigating motivation, nature, and structure
<p>Engineering community engagement programs have increased in popularity over the last decade or so, with related research and scholarship in this area focused primarily on student motivation and learning outcomes. Since 2000, however, the wider service-learning field has started investigating …
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Flood Modeling and Community Engagement in Giles County, Virginia
… suggests that combining technical analysis and community engagement can create a more accurate depiction of flood risk that is meaningful to those most affected. This paper also suggests that evaluating riverine flooding based on the most severe, recent storm yields a more accurate and impactful …
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Community Engagement: Impacts of community perceptions on community service participation
… attitudes of high school seniors regarding their community and participation in community service activities to determine what relationship exists between community attitudes and motivation to engage in the community. The study will address this relationship within the context of functional theory …
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University Community Engagement and Its Effect on University Brand Image
… are few that establish the effect of university community engagement on university brand image. This study uses a mixed-methods approach involving a secondary data analysis, a case study that includes interviews with administrators on the University of Pennsylvania and the Netter Center’s …
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Beyond academics - is community engagement possible through work integrated learning?
… modules were the appropriate means to achieve community engagement ends, and to what extent the introduction of an NGO component in the WIL curriculum raised awareness or understanding of community engagement amongst the students at a private higher educational institution. Theoretical fields …
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… projects at the same time as they engage in community-focused design processes. Research in transportation policy defines performance-based planning as a framework for agencies to use performance goals and measurement to guide decision-making. Existing research largely neglects the use of …
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Institutionalizing Service-Learning as a Best Practice of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Intra- and Inter-Institutional Comparisons of the Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Framework
… academic learning, meaningful and relevant community service, and persistent civic learning (McGoldrick and Ziegert, 2002). The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has created an elective classification system – Carnegie Community Engagement Classification – for institutions …
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Participation, power and democracy: A comparative study of community engagement processes.
… by a proliferation of research examining these community engagement processes from a variety of different perspectives. Despite the similar themes addressed in the development studies literature and urban regeneration literature in the U.K., there are few studies that compare participatory …
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Design Education Reconsidered: Faculty Perceptions of Community Engagement in Landscape Architecture
… toward partnership and reciprocity is termed engagement. Community engagement has emerged as an important academic strategy used to enhance and complement traditional learning methods in higher education. According to the Campus Compact, the number of faculty members who include community …
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The culture of community engagement from participant perspectives: implications for health visiting.
… civil society take an active role in supporting community members and promoting self-determination. To date, the processes of the public sector and professional powers have limited the ability of communities to make such changes and are a barrier to the development of community engagement …
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A critical assessment of corporate community engagement (CCE) in the Niger Delta.
… social responsibility in the area of corporate community engagement (CCE) and public relations in the area of organization-public relationships (OPRs). The thesis focuses on the Nigerian oil and gas industry community relationship in the Niger Delta region. This study provides valuable insights …
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