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Scholar-Administrators as Leaders: Promoting Impact in Community Engagement
Get PDFCommunity engagement has seen many changes over the years as scholars studied the field and learned more about its application as a methodology for teaching and learning, as well as conducting research. Henry R. Cunningham, the 2023 Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award recipient, discusses some of the evolution in community engagement and identified community impact as an area of great importance to change the public’s negative perception of higher education. The transformation led to the institutionalization of community engagement on campuses where it is integrated into the fabric of the institution. Numerous studies conducted show the benefit to students when they are engaged in the community, and the enhancement to teaching and learning with policies and practices such as faculty professional development to enhance this work. However, we need to look closer at the impact community engagement is having on communities with which we are collaborating and at how this work is helping to improve communities. Demonstrating that higher education is changing communities and improving the lives of individuals through educational attainment, economic development, and healthier communities, as well as in other areas, can change the negative public perception of higher education
Las Mujeres Cis, Trans y Lesbianas en Situación de Violencia y el Acceso a La Justicia en el Noroeste Argentino: Del Diagnóstico a la Acción
No full textBeyond Homes Around a Mosque: Muslim-Led Community Development in a Major U.S. City
No full textThis paper examines Dream of Detroit (DREAM), a Muslim-led community development initiative, and its impact on Muslim community-building and Detroit\u27s Dexter-Linwood neighborhood. DREAM addresses housing, economic development, sustainability, and cultural preservation. Born from diverse community efforts, it aims to combat housing insecurity, blight, poverty, and racial disparities.
DREAM has successfully renovated vacant homes, engaged local youth, and empowered residents to shape their community\u27s future. While facing funding challenges and gentrification risks, DREAM\u27s commitment to equity, inclusion, and partnerships positions it as a model for sustainable community development rooted in Islamic values.
This case study showcases the power of faith-inspired, community-driven approaches and comprehensive strategies in revitalizing marginalized neighborhoods. It offers insights for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers seeking effective community development models in diverse urban settings
A Post-COVID Inflection Point and Call to Action: Theorizing a Legal Right to Youth Sport, Play, and Physical Activity in the United States
Get PDFLiterature links sport, play, and similar leisure endeavors to numerous physical, psychological, and social benefits critical to a young person’s development. Unlike other nations, the United States lacks a national policy to fund structures supporting youth sport, play, and the like. Instead, a for-profit youth sport industry oversees this sector using a pay-to-play model, creating significant financial and access barriers. The COVID-19 pandemic created an inflection point and call for action to meaningfully reform youth sport. Advocates often claim, without providing legal justification, that access to sport and play is a constitutional right. Therefore, the purpose of this commentary is to move beyond aspiration or hypothetical rhetoric and investigate whether a persuasive legal argument exists that places a constitutional legal responsibility upon the United States federal government to create structures, allocate funding, and provide universal access to free sport, recreation, and play opportunities for youth. While review and analysis of relevant case law found that no constitutional right likely existed under United States law, this process confirmed that that such claims will have little chance of success under current precedent. Therefore, given the improbability of substantive voluntary reforms in the private sector, a deeper exploration of innovative legal theories is required to achieve the necessary structural change
Segmentation of Local Agricultural Festivals for Collaborative Marketing
Get PDFThis study aims to explore the heterogeneity of local agricultural festival attendees by adopting a collaborative marketing approach which enables cross-retention of festival attendees among multiple local agricultural festivals. Using the data collected from the on-site survey at three local agricultural festivals, this study conducted the cluster analysis. Findings indicate the viability of variety seeking and festival loyalty as segmentation criteria involving multiple local agricultural festivals together and suggested four clusters, Multi festival goers, One festival goers, Other festival goers, and No returners. Each cluster demonstrates discrete behavioral and geographic characteristics about their local agricultural festival experience
