Pursuing opportunities through partnerships : higher education and communities / edited by Bruce A. Behringer [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gail D. McClure -- Preface / Ronald W. Richards -- Acknowledgments / Robert M. Freeland, David C. Hardesty, Diana Natalicio and Paul E. Stanton, Jr. -- Pt. 1. About the program -- Background and overview to the expanding community partnerships program / Bruce Behringer, Gerald E. Lang and Jill Kriesky -- Pt. 2. East Tennessee State University -- Hearing that whistle : one dean's observations on the community partnerships program / Donald R. Johnson -- The winding road to community partnerships in Appalachia : a faculty perspective / Lori J. Marks, Ardis Nelson, J. P. Burnham, Thomas Coates, Joyce Duncan, Elizabeth Lowe, Amy Lowery and Edith Seier -- Community-based graduate assistants : integral partners in community-university settings / Kris Bowers, Kami Fecho, Holly Melendez and Deborah Brown -- Creating the bridge : the community's view of expanding community partnerships / Barbara King, Wilhelmina Williams, Sue Howard, Frank Proffitt, Kimberly Belcher, James E. McLean and James H. Quillen -- From idiosyncrasy to illustration : transformational change through community partnerships / Bert C. Bach -- Pt. 3. West Virginia University -- Structural design of the expanding community partnerships program at WVU / Jill Kriesky -- Increasing faculty engagement using community-based pedagogy / Mary Furbee and Ric MacDowell -- Service learning makes a difference in the lives of students / Brandi Goss and Shane Pettyman -- Expanding community capacity with academic partners / Sally L. Johnson, Denise L. Neighbors and Bob Gribben -- Assessing the impact of the expanding community partnerships program / Gerald E. Lang -- Pt. 4. Northeastern University -- Partnerships in education : bridging the university and the community / Susan Hicks Spurlock -- The faculty experience in Northeastern's partnerships in education / Jean H. Krasnow and Terry L. Haywoode -- "Charles Street, how you feelin'?" : students respond to community partnership experiences / Ilsa Bruer, Julia Buonopane, Mauricia Luma, Joanna Principe, Claudia Grose and Erica Lindamood -- The view from the community / Sandras Barnes -- Re-imagining the calling of the academy / David Hall -- Pt. 5. University of Texas at El Paso -- Border stories : university-community partnerships in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez / Kathleen Staudt and Carla Cardoza -- Binational educational partnership between UTEP teacher education and La Escuela Primaria Jaime Torres Bodet / Elaine Hampton and Olga Liguori -- College of education undergraduates and the Even Start Family Literacy Project / Judith Munter -- Student perspectives : personal reflections on the benefits of community-based projects / Teresa Heimer and Azuri L. Gonzalez -- Growing on the border / Vicki Roberts -- An administrator's reflections on the partnership experience / Howard C. Daudistel -- Pt. 6. Lessons learned -- Lessons learned from the Kellogg Expanding Community Partnerships program / Bruce Behringer, Bert C. Bach, Howard C. Daudistel, James Fraser, Gerald E. Lang and Jill Kriesky.

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