At its heart, a place-based approach is built on a simple principle: The people who live closest to a problem are also ...

Violence interruption is a community-based intervention strategy that can reduce gun violence and improve public safety in neighborhoods around the country. Only in America: The Front Lines of the Gun ...

State and regional associations can help build colleges' capacity for work-based learning, including internships, apprenticeships, and project-based capstones. Creating hands-on, work-based learning ...

Policymakers must work alongside educators and industry leaders to develop high-quality, equitable work-based learning models that bring these opportunities to more students. These are all examples of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applies a community-based protection approach rooted in the principle of “people protecting people”, recognizing that community members are often best placed to identify ...

Current research and results from current program implementation suggest the following outcomes may be obtained from involvement in community-based education programs and concurrent on-going classroom ...

The Southeast Alaska LGBTQ+ Alliance will award a local advocate for spaces and support for queer youth with its Mildred Boesser Equal Rights Award on Sunday. Meryl Connelly-Chew, who works for the ...

Through the PWR’s Writing Initiative for Service and Engagement (WISE), founded in 2008, the program has integrated community-engaged writing throughout its lower- and upper-division courses. Students ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recently published horizon scan on community-based conservation identified 15 topics that offer opportunities to yield positive change for people ...

There are five words that Grace Fox, CC ’23, would use to describe herself: student, organizer, friend, advocate, and badass. During her time at Columbia, Fox has devoted herself to working alongside ...

For roughly 80% of our lives, we’re 25 miles or less from home — at work, at the supermarket, at school pickup. But when you ask a patient to join a clinical trial, you’re usually asking them to go ...

The newly opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture (“The Cheech”) in Riverside, Calif., houses the world's largest collection of works by Mexican American artists. Rosy Cortez had a ...