Sustained Engagement Experiences in Kinesiology: An Engaged Department Initiative

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-367
Author(s):  
Brian D. Clocksin ◽  
Margo B. Greicar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Real Life ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The University ◽  
High Impact Practice

Community engagement is commonly imbedded in the ethos of institutions of higher education and has been identified as a High Impact Practice for student learning and retention. The Sustained Engagement Experiences in Kinesiology (SEEK) program at the University of La Verne is a curriculum-wide approach that moves students through four stages of community engagement: Respect, Participating with Effort, Self-Directions, and Leadership. The stages are developmentally sequenced across the curriculum and provide opportunities for learners to move from passive participants to active engagement scholars. The engagement experiences serve to enhance students’ abilities to transfer what they learn in the classroom to real-life problems, foster an asset-based approach to community engagement, and facilitate a transition from surface-to deep-learning.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Community Engagement: Starting a Campus-Wide Dialogue

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Starke ◽  
Keristiena Shenouda ◽  
Deborah Smith-Howell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Metropolitan Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
And Linguistics

Institutions of higher education are increasingly compelled to produce evidence that illustrates their contribution to society. In this age of demonstrating value added, self-assessment is critical for urban and metropolitan universities. This study will explore the design and implementation of a landscape analysis – phase one of an in-depth self-assessment – at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). This process is intended to help universities gain a better understanding of how community engagement is conceptualized and institutionalized on their campus. A thorough understanding of the meaning of, and linguistics associated with, community engagement is imperative for the creation of community engagement measurement and assessment mechanisms. The authors will share the methodology and key findings, which include the discovery of domains of community engagement and acknowledgement of a spectrum of engagement. 

scholarly journals Tackling Grand Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Marie DiEnno ◽  
Anne P. DePrince
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
University Of Denver ◽  
Institutional Values ◽  
Education Design ◽  
The University

In recent years, grand challenge initiatives have emerged nationally with the goal of addressing large, multidisciplinary public problems. The advent of university-led grand challenge initiatives offers an important opportunity to reflect on how institutions of higher education design, implement, and orient externally relevant activities at a time of public skepticism. With a focus on public problem solving, grand challenge initiatives offer a way to re-engage the public’s imagination and faith in higher education, depending on what these initiatives reflect about institutional values, practices, and work. We use this reflection opportunity to review early approaches to university-led grand challenge initiatives. We then propose that two frameworks should merge explicitly into grand challenge initiatives to guide public problem solving: community engagement and collective impact. Finally, we offer the establishment of a grand challenge initiative at the University of Denver (DU) as an example of the integration of community engagement and collective impact frameworks into the organization and implementation of institution-wide, publicly-engaged work.

Impact of Community Engagement in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Huddleston
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
College Career ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of community engagement on college students. It is an exploratory study investigating the attitudes and perceived impact of college students having participated in CE, measuring how effective CE is and how well these goals are met on a college campus. Mainly examined is the relationship between impact and student participation in CE. The amount of connectivity a student feels to the community will play a role in their continued college career. General civic engagement attitudes of respondents are assessed. Online surveys with demographic, Likert scale and open-ended questions are administered to give students the opportunity to put their experiences into their own words. Based on previous research in the area, researchers expect that students will gain employable attributes from their participation in CE during college as well as will report high impact and connectivity to the university and the community.

Impact of Community Engagement in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 1330-1351
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Huddleston
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
College Career ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of community engagement on college students. It is an exploratory study investigating the attitudes and perceived impact of college students having participated in CE, measuring how effective CE is and how well these goals are met on a college campus. Mainly examined is the relationship between impact and student participation in CE. The amount of connectivity a student feels to the community will play a role in their continued college career. General civic engagement attitudes of respondents are assessed. Online surveys with demographic, Likert scale and open-ended questions are administered to give students the opportunity to put their experiences into their own words. Based on previous research in the area, researchers expect that students will gain employable attributes from their participation in CE during college as well as will report high impact and connectivity to the university and the community.

Nine emerging student needs

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hines ◽  
Alexandra Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
World Cafe ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose A research project exploring emerging student needs explored six aspects of student life: living, learning, working, playing, connecting and participating. Design/methodology/approach A modified version of the University of Houston’s “Framework Foresight” method was used to explore the future of six aspects of future student life. The resulting scenarios were analyzed for their implications, including the use of the World Café technique, and ultimately led to the identification of nine emerging student needs. Findings Nine specific emerging needs of future students could be used strategically by institutions of higher education to guide and inform planning and to generate innovative ideas for university offerings. Specific examples of offerings that would meet the projected future needs are recommended. Research limitations/implications In terms of research limitations, the paper is focused on the needs of students and does not purport to be an exhaustive analysis of all of the issues influencing higher education. It views the future of higher education through the lens of students and their emerging needs. Practical implications The paper is intended for educators, researchers and administrators to provide insight on how the needs of students, their key customers, are evolving. Originality/value This piece explores student life in its totality as way to more accurately identify student needs in the future.

scholarly journals Academic Drift in Canadian Institutions of Higher Education: Research Mandates, Strategy, and Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Lane D. Trotter ◽  
Amy Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Degree Completion ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Academic Drift ◽  
Secondary Systems ◽  
Community Pressure ◽  
The University ◽  
Market Pressures

As with higher-education institutions around the world, British Columbia (BC) and Ontario are increasingly faced with demographic and market pressures that erode the traditional difference between the university and non-university sectors (i.e., colleges and institutes). Key components that ensure these provinces’ institutions preserve their unique roles and differentiations in a changing context, partially driven by their governments, include research mandates, transparency in institutional governance, and strategic documents that resist the academic drift created by institutional isomorphism. Both governments are actively reshaping their post-secondary systems to align with national or regional economic needs, increasing access, streamlining degree completion, and responding to community pressure to have a university or a degree-granting institution. An analysis of the enabling legislation, government policy directives, and institutional documents of both provinces shows that there is a blurring in the distinction between colleges and universities, and the costs associated with this.

Educational Portals

Web Portals ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 252-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Bajec
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
Core Components ◽  
User Centric ◽  
The University

Portal-based solutions have been proved in practice to be a promising technology that offers companies a way to transform and integrate their information systems more effectively and at lower cost. The main point of this paper is to discuss the use of portals in institutions of higher education. We examine the motivating factors that drive higher-education institutions to use portal-based solutions. As an example, we explain how the University of Ljubljana is taking advantage of portal technology and what benefits are to be expected from the use of portals as core components of the university’s new user-centric information system.

Velarde, Héctor Bergman (1898–1989)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerine Tapia Vila
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The architect Héctor Velarde was born in Lima, Peru, on May 14, 1898. His father was a diplomat and Velarde passed his childhood and adolescence in Brazil, Switzerland, and Paris. Velarde studied in France at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l’industrie graduating as an architect-engineer in 1919. In 1920 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied at the atelier of Victor Laloux, an upcoming neoclassical French architect. In 1924 Velarde returned to Lima, and from then until 1927 dedicated himself to the diplomatic service, to literature and to journalism. In 1928 he resigned from the diplomatic corps and devoted himself full-time to architecture and construction, as well as to teaching at various institutions of higher education, becoming Vice Chancellor of the University of Lima. During his career as an architect he built several projects that can still be seen in the city today. A prolific writer, he produced a variety of academic texts and humorous stories. Velarde died on December 22, 1989.

scholarly journals Ups and Downs across Central and Eastern Europe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snejana Slantcheva-Durst
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The University

Larger private higher education sectors are much more common across central and eastern Europe. After the fall of the communist regimes in 1989, private institutions of higher education multiplied to varying degrees in central and eastern Europe. The most recent trends reveal slow private growth in most of these countries. Declines in the number of people served by private institutions have been limited in range and time, yet have occurred in both the university and nonuniversity private sectors.

Engineer-in-Residence: Strategy for Increasing Relevance in Transportation Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 1848 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pritchard ◽  
Edward A. Beimborn
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Process

Results are reported of the implementation of an engineer-in-residence concept in the Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science. This concept brings an experienced practitioner to campus specifically to mentor students and faculty in the application of engineering and management principles to real-life problems and to provide additional relevancy to the education process. Success of the concept is measured by evaluations completed by students and faculty. On the basis of the findings of these evaluations, the concept is a promising way to provide expanded relevancy to a transportation education program.

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