Increasing access to higher education: Hawaii university-community partnerships

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
University Community

scholarly journals A Critical Approach to University-Community Partnerships: Reflecting on the Diverse Realities

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Heloise Sathorar ◽  
Deldre Geduld
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
University Community

Postapartheid South Africa has seen a greater focus on community engagement by universities, and its inclusion as one of the core focus areas of higher education in addition to teaching and research. This focus on engagement with the community was ignited by a requirement to enhance the university's social responsibility through establishing partnerships with the communities it serves. Higher education institutions have traditionally positioned themselves in engagement projects as the singular organisation that has knowledge to offer when compared to what the community can offer. In this paper, we propose a critical engagement process to enhance collaboration in engagement projects. Our qualitative study resides in a critical theory paradigm, and we used drawings as well as narrative free writing to reflect and explore our perceptions regarding community engagement. We used the collaborative self-study methodology because it provides opportunities for critical and self-critical reflection that could lead us to discovering valuable insights, as well as provide suggestions on how to enhance university community partnerships. Our findings suggest that, despite legislation and efforts to enhance university community engagement, this remains a contested space where power relations, inequality, and claims to knowledge ownership continue to pose challenges.

Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students Through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships

2019 ◽  
pp. 904-933
Author(s):  
Rika Swanzen ◽  
Victoria L. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Field Supervisors ◽  
University Community

In South Africa, the integration of community engagement into research and teaching roles is mandated through policy guidelines, which created the need for transformation of Higher Education (HE) since the late 1990s. One approach that allows such integration is service-learning and this approach is the focus of a research study conducted with field supervisors to determine the level of reciprocal engagement experienced by them. Communication plays a strong role in authentic university-community partnerships (UCPs) and Monash South Africa is cognisant of the challenges encountered with regard to diversity during placements or internships, some of which were discovered through the study. The ultimate aim of the chapter is to offer some recommendations for having a student-engaged and community-focused curriculum with reflections on its internationality and inter-disciplinary impact.

scholarly journals "Beyond the Barriers": Listening to Immigrant Youth to Transform Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Grace D. Player ◽  
Victoria S. Gill ◽  
Gerald Campano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Application Process ◽  
College Application ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Institutional Representation

This article explores the ways a university-based research team learned with and from immigrant youth as they collaboratively inquired into issues surrounding access to higher education. Through a close look at the youth’s research, including their discussions and written texts, we examine their desires for higher education and their responses to visiting our campus. We found that the students began to develop both a sense of belonging to higher education and a healthy skepticism of its admissions practices and institutional representation. They were also able to conceptualize their identities, at least in part, as assets to the college application process. From this study, we draw implications for fostering more equitable university-community partnerships.

Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships

2016 ◽  
pp. 284-312
Author(s):  
Rika Swanzen ◽  
Victoria L. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Field Supervisors ◽  
University Community

In South Africa, the integration of community engagement into research and teaching roles is mandated through policy guidelines, which created the need for transformation of Higher Education (HE) since the late 1990s. One approach that allows such integration is service-learning and this approach is the focus of a research study conducted with field supervisors to determine the level of reciprocal engagement experienced by them. Communication plays a strong role in authentic university-community partnerships (UCPs) and Monash South Africa is cognisant of the challenges encountered with regard to diversity during placements or internships, some of which were discovered through the study. The ultimate aim of the chapter is to offer some recommendations for having a student-engaged and community-focused curriculum with reflections on its internationality and inter-disciplinary impact.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Quality and Relevance of Teaching and Learning through University Community Partnerships: the Case of Art at Makerere University

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Ritah N. Edopu ◽  
J B Mpoza ◽  
Edith Namutebi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Education Delivery ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

A key gap in writing on the University Community Partnership (UCP) approach to higher education delivery relates to the fact that, in general, the fruitfulness of the approach is taken for granted. Furthermore, the usefulness of UCPs is tacitly expected to be two-way with universities helping their communities to address some of their challenges and the experience of partnership helping the universities to enhance their relevance. However, this paper reports the findings of a study that presents a different picture. Investigating the implementation and impact of the UCP approach to the delivery of the Bachelor of Industrial and Fine Arts program at Makerere University’s Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA), the study found that contrary to the widely held view that the approach to higher education delivery results into universities helping their communities to deal with some of their challenges, at the MTSIFA, the approach has not resulted into service learning. However, it has helped the school to close critical gaps in studio support for its students, thereby enhancing the quality and relevance of teaching and learning. Therefore, using this case, the study argues that UCPs present a panacea to some of the resources constraints inherent to massification that many HEIs in Africa are grappling with.

Prevention Support through University-Community Partnerships

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Maras ◽  
C. Reiger ◽  
R. Rokusek ◽  
K. Conaway ◽  
J. Mosher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Partnerships ◽  
University Community
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