scholarly journals Using the Urban Advantage to Achieve the Greatest Good

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Golich
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Anchor Institutions

Members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) recognized nearly thirty years ago that institutions of higher education (IHEs) located in urban and metropolitan cities faced a unique set of challenges – but also shared exceptional opportunities – for developing and deploying the vast intellectual capital residing within their halls. They joined forces to share ideas and practices that would, among other things, integrate their colleges and universities more seamlessly and usefully with their surrounding communities. Over time, CUMU members realized they should play an important role as anchor institutions in their communities: “local economic engines and mission-driven organizations inextricably linked to the long-term well-being of their local communities…” (Democracy Collaborative, 2018).   CUMU’s 23rd Annual Conference was held in Denver, Colorado in October 2017 with a focus on “The Urban Advantage” (CUMU, 2017). Presentations and conversations explored 21st century challenges created by states decreasing their funding to public higher education and by gentrification of the neighborhoods surrounding CUMU IHEs. They stressed unique learning opportunities for students and faculty studying and working at urban colleges and universities: clearly, an urban setting provides more occasions for students to engage in internships, service learning, volunteering, community-based research, and other pedagogies now known to improve student persistence through to graduation and alumni chances to pursue the careers or post-baccalaureate programs of their choice (AAC&U, n.d.). Scholars and activists called for urban IHEs to consider how they might engage with their surrounding communities more effectively to solve problems, improve the local economy, and educate a professional 21st century-relevant workforce. Finally, they underscored the imperative that metropolitan colleges and universities stay true to their mission of providing the public good of education to achieve social justice, graduate civically engaged alumni, and to be both in and of the community.

scholarly journals Regenerative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Framework for Surpassing Sustainability and Attaining Regeneration

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Chara Armon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Early 21St Century

Many in higher education seek to define how to respond to our environmental crisis. Our 20th and early 21st century failures to resolve the crisis have revealed that a focus on “sustainability” is inadequate in its goals, methods, and public appeal. Higher education must now advance its contribution to preparing graduates to enact the regeneration the damaged natural world requires. We now must teach the deep “why” of caring for our home planet as our life partner, exceed the standard of sustainability to focus on the more enduring and restorative standard of regeneration, and offer our students knowledge and skills for effective regenerative action. Colleges and universities can define their primary goal as teaching students how to tend the flourishing and regeneration of the life community via an emphasis on regenerative collaboration. Regenerative collaboration consists of principles that can guide higher education into a stage of deep contribution to regeneration of the natural world and human well-being. The framework of regenerative collaboration promotes transformation of academic disciplines, academic departments, and courses and calls for development of practical regenerative skills to be part of every degree program. Regenerative collaboration is a means of enacting higher education’s transition from a knowledge focus to a wisdom and regenerative action focus.

Research into the Training of College Students’ Abilities to Create, Innovate and Pioneer

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 2262-2265
Author(s):  
Su Han ◽  
Xiao Feng Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Knowledge Innovation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

The 21st century is the one in which knowledge innovation promotes economic development. Our country and society earnestly need a lot of talents who have the abilities of creation, innovation and pioneering. In order to meet the challenge of the times, it is highly necessary for colleges and universities to carry out the education to create, innovate and pioneer. Higher education should undertake the mission of training and improving college students’ such abilities so as to make good preparations for their future. In this paper, combined with the above situation, the authors analyze the characteristics of creating, innovating and pioneering talents, probe into the main points of the creative, innovative and pioneering education and put forward the concrete measures to foster such talents.

scholarly journals Research on the Function of Music in College Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Lei Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Development ◽  
College Education ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
New Work ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Important Position ◽  
New Generation

College students are the hope of national development and future. College education is an important position for college students to grow and grow up. Music is an indispensable artistic existence in College education. The cultivation of college students has become a problem that colleges and universities must face. Their new characteristics and ideas have brought new challenges to the education of colleges and universities. As the most active and energetic college students of the new generation, their training is not only related to their all-round development, but also directly affects the international competitiveness and development strength of countries in the 21st century. Therefore, it is an urgent and necessary direction to explore the new work of higher education. And music plays an extremely important role in shaping the personality charm of modern college students and their growth and success.

scholarly journals Higher Education, Community Engagement, and the Public Good: Building the Future of Continuing Education in Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budd L. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
University Community

This article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.

The Theory and Practice of Teaching in Today's Colleges and Universities

2009 ◽  
pp. 764-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Practice Of Teaching ◽  
Adult And Higher Education

Teaching is changing and it is being forced to change by many forces of social change. Today’s theory and practice of teaching in adult and higher education are not only shaped by technology, but also by prevalent teaching and learning theories such as constructivism, progressive principles of education, humanism and even behaviorism. While behaviorism, a major component of pedagogical teaching, successfully dominated adult and higher education in the past, the purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that we are experiencing a paradigm shift from being pedagogical in our instruction to an andragogical mode of education in the 21st century due to the fact that we do know, to some extent, how students learn. Therefore, the way knowledge is delivered in the new century must be changed in order to serve the needs of this learning society.

Relationship between personal values and adaptation of students: transfer of the method of "learning by action"

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Yuriy Zavatskyі ◽  
Kateryna Hrechyshkina ◽  
Svitlana Kalnaia ◽  
Vita Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Spiritual Satisfaction

The article reveals the relationship between personal values and adaptation of students in the transfer of the method of "learning by doing". It is shown that the value of creativity in the stable component was associated with maladaptation, and in the dynamic on the contrary, which indicates that respondents are able to show creativity when needed, "here and now", ie in critical situations. Contradiction is observed in the professional component with the importance of the value of spiritual satisfaction - material well-being. That is, if the team or the environment of the respondents are dominated by spiritual values (morality, morality, belief in the good), the process of adaptation will be faster and easier, and if the material (money, benefits), the adaptation is difficult. This may indicate altruism and selflessness. Values have been shown to play an important role in the adaptation process. Regarding the constituent values, both dynamic and stable components are important. Of particular importance is the experience of transferring the method of "Learning by Action" (Service Learning) in higher education institutions. This method belongs to the methods of education in the interests of sustainable development and involves the integration into the educational process of higher education institutions of social activity of students. The effectiveness of the method is that students of higher education institutions who have experienced volunteer work in social projects in the educational process are more prepared in practical terms for the labor market and are able to see the meaning of activities in various social institutions. The main goal is to develop students' social responsibility and other key competencies through the use of the "Learning by Action" method. Key words: students, values, adaptation, learning, action, activity.

(Dis)Integration

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-166
Author(s):  
Micere Keels
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
Personal Cost ◽  
College Going ◽  
Institutional Action

This concluding chapter takes a step back to examine the bigger picture and suggests ways that colleges and universities could achieve greater integration by attending to difference. Latinx and Black students' college-going identity challenges are often created through institutional action and inaction, and can be resolved through institutional action. Higher education has shown itself to be a revolving door that puts too many Latinx and Black students right back outside their walls, with student debt and without a degree that would lead to the wages needed to service that debt. Although the persistence problem has been foregrounded throughout this work, the chapter shows that the broader goal of campus counterspaces is fostering persistence coupled with psychological, emotional, and cultural well-being. Too many studies show that for historically marginalized students, educational success comes at a high personal cost.

scholarly journals Community engagement in higher education: Online information sources

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Increased Pressure

In an age of challenging public discourse and increased pressure for educational accountability, many colleges are renewing their commitments to the public purposes of higher education. In fact, presidents and chancellors at more than 450 institutions signed Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Action Statement1 in 2016, reaffirming their dedication to preparing students for engaged citizenship, to changing social and economic inequalities, and to contributing to their communities as place-based institutions. In practical terms, many campuses are placing increased emphasis on real-world learning experiences for students through opportunities such as service-learning, internships, and community-based research.

scholarly journals How to Strengthen Mathematics Teaching in College Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jiayou Song
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
College Education ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Teaching Process

<p>The 21st century is an era of the coexistence of opportunities and challenges. Domestic higher education and modern science and technology have obtained unprecedented development, making people more clearly understand the vital role of mathematics, which is both pressure and power for college mathematics teaching. In addition, due attention should be taken on the problems in mathematics teaching. This paper dwells on the problems and opportunities of mathematics education in colleges and universities, hoping to find and solve the root causes of problems in the teaching process from three aspects of teachers, schools and students, so as to improve the quality and efficiency of mathematics teaching.</p>

scholarly journals GSA and AGHE: 75 Years of Leading Innovative, Interdisciplinary, Intergenerational, and Engaging Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 543-543
Author(s):  
Judith Howe ◽  
Marie Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Community Based Research

Abstract The AGHE Symposium will highlight the many ways that education has advanced interdisciplinary work, innovative programs, intergenerational services and community engagement in the field of aging over the last decades. Presenters will reflect on how these educational modalities can inform the future of gerontology education. Educators have innovated over decades to develop a field characterized by a diversity of programs, including internships, applied learning experiences in research, policy and practice, and leadership. The history of AGHE and interdisciplinary education are linked, with AGHE serving as an incubator for the advancement of change in this area. Over the course of the last five decades, funding from federal and foundation initiatives have resulted in multi-disciplinary university based centers, interprofessional team training programs, and workforce development initiatives. These efforts have improved the health and well-being of older adults and contributed to the development of new collaborative care systems. AGHE members have also long been involved in intergenerational teaching and learning strategies, including service-learning and community activities. Intergenerational work in the field of aging has helped to shape the Age-Friendly University initiative which calls for colleges and universities to promote intergenerational learning through reciprocal sharing of expertise among learners of all ages. Finally, the AGHE community has long promoted engaged learning with opportunities for students to interact with community partners through programs such as community-based research and clinical experiences and local policy efforts. The ideas presented in the symposium will lead to reflection on how AGHE can expand its value as GSA’s educational arm.

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