... institutions with differing levels of research activity--extensive to little to none--and differing ...
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This paper examines the history, organization, and activities of the Council of Research and Academic Libraries, a multitype library cooperative composed of academic, public and special libraries and located in San Antonio, Texas. The consortium's history...
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Academic Research Infrastructure The Academic Research Infrastructure Program (ARI) is designed to improve the condition of research equipment and facilities in our Nation's academic institutions in all disciplines. CISE Research Experience for ...
This article explores some aspects of and challenges faced by those academics and administrators who undertake the leadership and management of research activity in contemporary UK universities. This analysis is set in the context of almost three decades of reforms to the UK's higher education systems in general and to ...
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Scope of the Consortium plan was the marshalling of the academic research resources, as well as the appropriate non-academic resources within Utah to pursue energy-related research activities: Solving Social and Economic Problems Related to Energy Develop...
Significant accomplishment in the areas of research activities and publications are presented. Research projects are described, including sponsor and investigator. Citations of publications produced by faculty and students are also presented.
Academic corruption is a hot issue in today's society. "Academic corruption" means that certain individuals in academic circles, driven by the desire for personal gain, resort to various kinds of nonnormative and unethical behavior in academic research activities. These ...
The academic community in higher education is becoming increasingly fragmented, with arguably the greatest fault line between research and teaching. This paper argues that, through the reinvention of the undergraduate curriculum to focus on student engagement in research and research-type ...
The objective of this effort was to coordinate research and development activities throughout private industry, academic laboratories, and private research laboratories to support the development of a national strategy for securing cyberspace. The approac...
translational research to the evaluation of research proposals? 2. will the NIH compound library and biological activity database be available for academic scientists to review...
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Heather Bowles, PhD, is a Physical Activity Epidemiologist with the Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch in the Applied Research Program. Before coming to the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Bowles held a research academic appointment in Australia at the Centre for Physical Activity and ...
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A study of the science research activities in China's institutions of higher learning in recent years indicates that there is a major connection between the current instances of corruption in scientific research at colleges and universities and the evaluations system for scientific research implemented at many of ...
IN GENERAL PRACTICE NORTHERN TERRITORY CLINICAL SCHOOL Darwin Vacancy Reference No: 06177 Major Cost Centre is to provide leadership for academic activities in General Practice in Darwin and surrounding region with academic general practice, and providing leadership for general practice research within the NTCS
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Twenty-one research teams engaged in interdisciplinary biomedical research at a large academic medical center were studied for effects of organizational management structure on resource flows, roles, research climate, problem solving, communications, and ...
This report presents a description of the activities of the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute for the period of March 1, 2000 to February 28, 2001. The Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute (LWRRI) is unique among academic research insti...
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore Israeli academics' perceptions of the introduction of educational markets and, particularly, their attitudes towards academics' roles and responsibilities in the new marketing-led university, as well as to obtain a greater understanding of their actual patterns of involvement in the marketing of their ...
Research in academic advising has traditionally been conducted and disseminated by faculty researchers, graduate students, and higher education administrators (including advising directors). While significant in developing a body of literature to guide academic advising, the sources of the contribution also suggest ...
European universities are being shaken by two revolutions. One is a radical change in the way research is funded, the other is the increased emphasis on the teaching role of the universities. This interview study examines what effects these radical institutional changes have had on academic freedom. Based on a small number of in-depth interviews with ...
amount of a faculty member's academic year salary paid from external funds must equal or exceed 10% (plus's academic year salary. That funding level represents up to 50% of the State support given for research/contract, which supports the academic year salary, must generate the full applicable university F&A ...
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... research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts on a ... of academic standard score, military rating, extra-curricular activities standard ...
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important and far-reaching implications for academic and social functioning throughout development, researchers compared brain activity associated with phonetic (sounds) and...
Jun 19, 2008 ... The Higher Education team is responsible for involving the higher education community in NASA research and technology activities. ...
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A rationale is offered for the use of communication satellites, which would provide a means for transcending the difficulties of distance, for the formation of academic constellations to conduct courses, coordinate cooperative research activities, and con...
From the EB 2008 Careers Symposium "Mid-Career Transitions: Choices and Challenges." This presentation discusses the function and expectations of an administrative academic position.
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The basic academic program and some of the aeronautical and aerospace research activities at the following three Italian universities are described briefly: University of Genoa; University of Pisa; University of Rome.
The shortage of engineers in Israel and the role that the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology plays in the education of engineers is discussed. Emphasis is placed on the academic program, research, and related activities in the Department of Aeronau...
who excel in STEM-based academics and research; ATMO accomplishes its mission by designing and managing innovative programs/activities. Implementing ...
... sponsored research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts on a ... a successful academic career with an active social-extracurricular life. ...
The condition of the academic profession today is examined with a focus on the teaching and research functions in the academy. The diverse settings in which academics work are considered in three parts: (1) the foundations of the academic profession (the evolution of institutions; the elaboration of disciplines; ...
The National Research Council recently issued a report that suggested ways in which to improve the management of potentially dangerous biomedical research in both academe and private industry, without unduly restricting scientists in their research activities. Here, the author shares her views ...
BACKGROUND: Recent changes in the organization of the National Health Service have created new roles and responsibilities for academic general practice. Previous work on the constraints and opportunities of a career in academic general practice is largely anecdotal and is often based on the views of more senior members of the profession. AIM: To survey the ...
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... ACADEMIC APPAREL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON ... Presented at the Advanced Apparel Manufacturing Technology Conference ...
The annual report represents the academic activities including research and teaching of the two specialization subjects, metallurgy and materials processing as well as the respective laboratories at Helsinki University of Technology. Research activities w...
...University's Basic Sciences Departments, Clinical Sciences Departments, and the...of the education and research activities of the School...University of the Health Sciences academic and investigative/research activities...
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Scope of the Consortium plan was the marshalling of the academic research resources, as well as the appropriate non-academic resources within Utah to pursue energy-related research activities: Solving Social and Economic Problems Related to Energy Development, Institutional Support for ...
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The report describes the research activities of the Department of Computer Science, University College London, for the academic year 1984/5. The report has been divided into major sections, corresponding to the main areas in which research is being conduc...
The aims of the first study in the research phase of the Finnish research and activation project are: to study the conception and the birth of new technology-based companies which have emerged from technical research institutes and universities of technol...
a framework of targets negotiated through the staff appraisal system. 6 Internally funded research is designed in addition to being a significant source of revenue and capital funding. 2 Research is important having a good interface with academic enterprise activities such as knowledge transfer. Internally funded
the student for teaching at the graduate level, and doing mathematical research in academic settings-chair, or member of graduate student committees; teach graduate courses; supervise research; and serve as a member and teaching of graduate students in this field, and relevant professional accomplishments. 4. ...
Nursing leadership is committed to advancing the profession of nursing through research and evidence-based practice. Partnerships between the hospital and area academic institutions were formed to develop a comprehensive research program that supported active involvement for frontline staff and provide clinical ...
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This article presents follow-up information to a previous publication regarding ways to increase emphasis on research skills in undergraduate Technical Communication curricula. We detail the ways our undergraduate program highlights research by requiring majors to complete senior thesis projects that culminate in submission to an online peer-reviewed ...
This paper evaluates whether university-industry relationships (UIR) and academic research activities have complementary effects on the scientific production of university lecturers. The analysis is based on a case study of two Spanish universities. We find that the effects of R&D contracts with industry, and ...
This case study examines the evolution of the 21-year research partnership between the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the South African Coal Oil and Gas Corporation (SASOL). The study finds that an individual academic has played a significant role in steering transformation research activities and culture in the ...
A gradual shift in United Kingdom research funding from blanket financing by government agencies towards more diversified income streams through activities funded by various customers is prompting academic research institutions to orient their research portfolios accordingly. ...
The Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15 or AREA) funding mechanism is designed to enhance the research environment of educational institutions that have not been traditional recipients of NIH research funds, this award provides limited funds to those institutions� faculty members to develop new ...
Notes the contradiction between the growing body of academic research in gay and lesbian studies and the fact that gay and lesbian faculty members remain second-class citizens in academe as well as in American political culture. Examines such issues as political activism and academic study; ...
This report presents a research plan for an assessment of risks to biodiversity. The plan describes the theoretical basis of the research approach and the data and methods to be used in the assessment. Initial research activities are formulated as a set of pilot studies that will examine nine ...
The Australian Federal Government and Australian universities have embarked on a bid to raise the profile of learning and teaching (L&T) in universities. Current strategies include increased funding of competitive grants for L&T projects, a wider range of teaching awards and fellowships and a controversial new national competitive Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. Despite these ...
Cheating is a continual dilemma on university campuses, and academic integrity violations have reached epidemic proportions according to current literature. The rapid growth of computer technologies and their application in education has provided unethical students, and otherwise ethical students, with new tools for their cheating activities. While ...
The move to an increasingly digital research environment has substantially disintermediated both academic and corporate libraries from the research process. The full impact of this disruptive change has been more clearly expressed in the corporate environment, in which libraries are less insulated by institutional tradition and ...
This article explores an innovative strategy for battling the obesity epidemic. The strategy involves demonstrating to policy makers and education leaders the value of promoting physical activity in school as a way of enhancing academic-related outcomes to narrow the current achievement gap. A literature review was conducted to ascertain the feasibility of ...
Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and the upheaval in health care economics have converged to cause seismic changes in the traditional organization of medical schools and academic health centers. This process is particularly evident in departments of internal medicine. The activities and functions of ...
This data brief reports on statistics related to the federal academic science and engineering obligations. The data is presented in one chart and two tables that provide information on federal science and engineering and science and engineering research and development obligations during the fiscal years 1986-1996, federal academic ...
The author's experience of three common academic activities--the production of a portfolio, the preparation of a CV and the submission of a research assessment report--are related respectively to authorship, authenticity and authority. A comparison is made of how the "being of" an academic is expressed in these ...
This study examines the academic library experiences of African American undergraduates attending a research university in the Midwest. Data collection techniques included questionnaires and ethnographic observations. The results indicated that African American undergraduates are using the academic library primarily to read and to ...
ethics); � leadership in identification and promotion of non-traditional research opportunities: � Leadership in community or public cultural events; � Leadership and substantial involvement in cultural; � Leadership in the facilitation or management of research related cultural activity; � Leadership
This is a summary of activities occurring in the Southern California Education and Research Center (ERC) during the 5 year period between July 1, 1994 and June 30, 1999. The ERC has provided academic training in 4 occupational health and safety discipline...
The annual report represents the academic activities including research and teaching of the Institution of Process Metallurgy (IPM) at Helsinki University of Technology. Significant research projects were initiated, the foremost of them inside the energy ...
The second full-fledged academic year at the Santa Fe Institute saw it extend its research activities centered on its organizing principle: complex systems. While there is not generally accepted definition of a complex system, common properties appear in ...
academic programs is to have a pipeline of research activities from high school to ... the approach to teaching Quantitative Analysis and Environmental Measurements and ... and appropriate work ethics, that students will need for advanced study in .... results to their research and created a more meaningful ...
...responsible for coordinating the policy research and development activities of other...composed of legal, engineering, economic, and sociological policy analysts...academic, and industry sponsored research affecting Commission policy...
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While collaborative action research is an empowering approach to developing academic practice, it also presents a number of challenges regarding the purpose, nature and consequences of academic development. This research note raises questions and issues concerning how action research exposes ...
... Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001 Detailed Statistical Tables ... Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2001 Portable Document Format (.pdf) Academic ...
... Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2000 Detailed Statistical Tables ... Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 2000 Portable Document Format (.pdf) Academic ...
... Academic Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 1999 Detailed Statistical Tables ... Research and Development Expenditures: Fiscal Year 1999 Portable Document Format (.pdf) Academic ...
Academic Research and Development Expenditures Fiscal Year 1996 Detailed Statistical Tables ... Expenditures: Fiscal Year 1996 Portable Document Format (.pdf) Academic Research and Development ...
Although much has been written about implementing mission-based management tools to help facilitate managing the primary academic missions at academic medical centers, there is surprisingly little written on standardized methodologies to align financial support across the academic and clinical missions. However, professional fee ...
Academic etiquette is an underexplored and underemphasized topic. Yet, a collegial atmosphere is essential to accomplish the missions of an academic medical center. Appropriate social, personal, and cultural behaviors are not only desirable, but they are also necessary to practice and emulate. As faculty in an academic center, one may ...
Intended to highlight challenges facing academic library managers and to review current activities and programs, this annual report of the Office of Management Studies (OMS) of the Association of Research Libraries describes 1978 activities and programs a...
within the university. In succeeding to intellectual property such as inventions and discoveries activities, and enhancing practical exploitation and actual utilization of intellectual property resulting shall promote the collaborative activities and manage exploitation of intellectual #12;property in a manner
Not many years ago, applied demography was little more than a collection of activities on the periphery of academic research. Now these activities are coalescing into a recognizable field of endeavor as demographers apply their specialized knowledge and t...
... Title : Management and Leadership Skills Among Academic Researchers in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. ...
The ability to access a foreign language can be an issue for academics trying to publish in international journals. The barriers that non-(limited)English-speaking academics in poor countries have in accessing the academic literature pose an issue of disadvantage in a world where the current trend is to publish ...
It has been recognized in the allied health professions that allied health disciplines must enhance and increase their research and scholarly activity. If faculty/staff are to be judged in the academic environment in which they work, their efforts to conduct research must be supported. Recognition for ...
Describes a cooperative collection development program implemented by the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) to strengthen resources available for graduate education and research. Topics discussed include funding collection development, the formula for the equitable distribution of funds, research support, and other related ...
Collaboration between Alaska Native communities and the academe is very important. This project focused on disseminating research findings to communities in a manner that is culturally appropriate and useful in planning the communities' next steps. The project relied on a collaborative process, described in terms of the activities that ...
Academic nurses are increasingly turning to bibliometrics to assess the state and status of research publication in nursing in countries around the world. Early bibliometric studies were carried out by Cattell as part of a project to advance research in psychology in the early decades of the 20th century. There are some echoes in ...
Research on multibody dynamics in engineering and science is developing at a high pace in Japan and in the world. These activities provide efficient and powerful solution tools for solving complicated dynamic problems with control via theoretical or high performance in-house and/or general purpose computer programs in academic and ...
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Since the 1980s in the US and the 1990s in Europe, patenting and licensing activities by universities have massively increased. This is strongly encouraged by governments throughout the Western world. Many regard academic patenting as essential to achieve 'knowledge transfer' from academia to industry. This trend has far-reaching consequences for access to ...
The paper proposes a metric, the research quality index (RQI), for assessing and tracking university research quality. The RQI is a composite index that encompasses the three main areas of research activity: publications, research grants and higher degree by research ...
... Abstract : This paper is an expository survey of some recent and current academic research in the theory of system reliability and safety applicable ...
... ACADEMIC RESEARCH FLEET STUDY. Report Date : 1982. Pagination or Media Count : 149. Abstract : This study was ...
The research reactor facility at the University of Texas at Austin has been relocated to a research campus 8 miles north of the main campus. From 1963 to 1988, the university operated a Mark I TRIGA reactor on the main campus. The research campus, named the Balcones Research Center, is being developed by the ...
In a context of increasing emphasis on academic performance and accountability, data from a structured survey in which academics elaborated on eight different attributes of high-performing researchers were used to build a conceptual model of research performance. Research performance was seen ...
Academic research and publishing, particularly at the higher education level, are activities that do not only complement effective teaching but are also sine-qua-non for the achievement of academic excellence. However, due to myriad of factors, many academics in Tertiary Institutions have a ...
Funding of academic research in Nigerian universities by Government (5 per cent recurrent grants) is a policy dictated by the National Universities Commission (NUC) as the central body for allocating research funds. This research fund, little as it is, is irregular and inadequate and to make it worse is difficult ...
-2010 To the Academic Senate, Santa Cruz Division: I. COR Activities Regarding Matters of Research Policy A. Relations with the Vice Chancellor of Research (VCR) and Office of Research The 2009-10 Committee on Research (COR) continued its interaction and coordination with ...
-2009 To the Academic Senate, Santa Cruz Division: I. COR Activities Regarding Matters of Research Policy A. Relations with the Vice Chancellor of Research (VCR) and Office of Research The 2008-09 the Committee on Research (COR) continued its interaction and coordination ...
For the past ten years, the College of Education at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM-COE) and Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan have enjoyed a special relationship designed to promote cooperation and academic exchanges between the two institutions. The agreement of cooperation was signed on June 5, 2000 by President Shinko Nakai of Bukkyo and Dean Randy Hitz of the ...
Traditionally, "education through research" is understood to be a main characteristic of education at the university. In this article we will explore how "education through research" is argued to be of major importance for the European knowledge society, how there is still a reference to the idea of "Bildung" or liberal education, and what ...
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research ...
Leadership is a key issue for universities and is increasingly regarded as beneficial to improved performance across all activities, including research. This article reports on part of a completed doctoral study that had the aim of developing a deeper understanding of the role of leadership as it relates to hospitality management ...
BackgroundWithin the framework of a prospective cohort study of Swiss medical school graduates a sample of young physicians aspiring to an academic career were surveyed on their career support and barriers experienced up to their sixth year of postgraduate training.MethodsThirty-one junior academics took part in semi-structured telephone interviews in ...
The lack of enthusiastic research activity among counseling professionals has been a subject of professional concern for the last 2 decades. Many graduates of counselor education programs are not connected to academic research and do not establish a research identity. Qualitative ...
The detrimental effects of physical inactivity within children have enormous personal health consequences. These health conditions have the potential to impact the economic vitality of society as a whole. Studies have indicated that inactive children are far more likely to suffer from obesity, type II diabetes, and hypertension than their physically active peers. ...
This study was designed to identify and gain a detailed description of the work activities currently being performed by school counselors and to provide empirical information about the role of school counselors. In addition, this study sought to determine if the work activities of school counselors are promoting student development in the three areas of ...
This article proposes facilitation of active learning in methods courses using collaborative survey research projects. Students form groups in which they develop and administer questionnaires that explore public attitudes and behaviors. Each step requires they apply key concepts toward completion of the project. Collaborative research ...
This section has been provided to inform graduate students, researchers, active grantees, new grant and contract applicants, oncologists, primary care professionals, academics, small business owners and venture capitalists about what has been funded in this SBIR program and what projects are currently active. This ...
of applicants. The Institute has boosted this academic activity by funding four new scholarships in the School the incomes received from sponsored research and consultancy projects Major focus has been to boost Prediction of the kinetics of competitive metabolic networks in hydrocarbon degrading organisms : development
Contents: Introduction; Research; New and Renewable Energy Systems; Fusion and Plasma Physics; Radiation Physics and Nuclear Engineering; Laser Physics and Applications; Public Relations; Teaching Activities; (Academic Degrees and Theses; Course Selection...
Since the 2001-2002 academic year, the educational activities of immunology and molecular biology graduate students at the University of Southern Maine (USM) have gone far beyond university classrooms and research laboratories to reach into high school
The information in this volume derives chiefly from a 1975 national survey of academic activities in the interdisciplinary area of science, technology, and society (STS), a general term meant to encompass such topical designations as science and technolog...
Recent years have seen increased interest in extending the concept of budgeting to include activities related to planning, coordinating, and monitoring the entire operation of a library. There is strong evidence that the budgeting techniques used can affe...
The publication is a quarterly journal designed to provide the academic community with the most up-to-date information regarding the research activities in China. Most of the papers here are contributed by college and university faculty members and resear...
An overview is provided of the government-funded activities within the National Photovoltaics Program. Tasks conducted in-house by the participating national laboratories or under contract by industrial, academic, and other research institutions are highl...
-system-activity relationship (SSAR) analysis. In: Progress in Drug Research (Ed. Jucker El), pp. 133-166. Birkhauser, Busel
The international exchange of knowledge is becoming increasingly important for all activities. Within Europe, the need for simple reviews of institutions within one and the same subject area has become more tangible since the European Union started its pu...
(Botany) Dr. M.K. Abeyratne (Mathematics) IndustryAcademic Collaboration via Undergraduate resources from its study programmes to suite present and future skilldemands. These study programme reforming activities will openup opportunities for industry participation
This study examines the role of the user study as a management tool in academic libraries and proposes a task-oriented survey method to estimate the library clientele's need for documents. Research on work and task-oriented information studies is discusse...
NCARL is proud of its active partnership among industry, academic, and extension specialists, and we continue to pursue improved uses and values for distillers grain. We aim to augment both the livestock industry as well as fuel ethanol manufacturers with our research programs. Pelleting is one wa...
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NCARL is proud of its active partnerships among industry, academic, and extension specialists, and we continue to pursue improved uses and values for distillers grain. We aim to augment both the livestock industry as well as fuel ethanol manufacturers with our research programs. The importance of ...
Contents:Introduction; Laboratory Staff; Research (Radiation Physics, New and Renewable Energy Systems, Fusion and Plasma Physics, Laser Physics and Applications); Teaching Activities (Academic degrees and theses, Course selection); Publications; Scientif...
AZ-STATE/CLAS/GEOSCI/ATRG (2) Active Tectonics Research Group, Department of Geological Sciences, ... Geography Department, California State University, Long Beach .... WUSTL/DATAFED (113) DataFed, Washington University in St. Louis ...
...MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (2000) PERMITS FOR RECREATION...necessary, based on planning decisions, resource concerns, potential user conflicts...activities or events; or (3) Academic, educational, scientific, or research uses...
Government, Industry, and Academic Activities using CE/SE Technology. Ohio State University, Professor Sheng-Tao Yu; NASA Langley Research Center, ...
The major accomplishment of the past year in the Roundtable`s continuing work on issues of concern to the academic enterprise is the preparation of two documents - Science and Technology in the Academic Enterprise: Status, Trends, and Issues and Perspectives on Financing Academic Research Facilities: A Resource for ...
Academic pharmaceutical science research is expanding further and further from the University setting to encompass the for-profit private company setting. This parallels the National Institutes of Health momentum to include multiple funding opportunities for University and private company collaboration. It has been recognized that the nonprofit and ...
Academic pharmaceutical science research is expanding further and further from the University setting to encompass the for-profit private company setting. This parallels the National Institutes of Health momentum to include multiple funding opportunities for University and private company collaboration. It has been recognized that the non-profit and ...
Interventions involving community-academic partnerships must be driven by a participatory approach that is informed by a comprehensive understanding of the perspectives of communities or focus populations. Often research agendas of academics are different from perceived priority needs of community members. Successful and sustainable ...
Interventions involving community�academic partnerships must be driven by a participatory approach that is informed by a comprehensive understanding of the perspectives of communities or focus populations. Often research agendas of academics are different from perceived priority needs of community members. Successful and sustainable ...
Researchers have noted that the personal attributes of high school all-state participants have not been probed and have expressed surprise at this void in the music education literature (Cole, 1986; Fuller, 1989; Welker, 1997). The purpose of this study was to ascertain, through participant self-report data, the activities and accomplishments of ...
