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    Comp. II 11th Feb. 2013 Mr. Wilson Concept of Community College: Then and Now Joliet Junior College‚ opened in 1901‚ is thought to be the first continuously operating public community college in the United States. By 1998 there were 1‚600 community colleges across all 50 states. Since their creation at the turn of the twentieth century‚ community colleges have provided pathways to higher education. It is an undisputable fact the community colleges have consistently increased their enrollment

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    Introduction/Opening: The practice of community policing is an evolving form of policing‚ but the concept goal is to create a positive relationship between a police department and a community through cooperation. There is no one definition for community oriented policing‚ however‚ a clear and well known definition was developed by Trojanowicz and Buequeroux and was defined as “ a new philosophy of policing‚ which emphasizes the working partnership between police officers and citizens in creative

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    Kaysha Whakarau-Twigge 12004012 Community Development: 179.320 Assignment 1: Essay Community Development Word count: 2275 (excluding references). Class coordinator: Polly Yeung Community development is formed when there is a need for change within a group of people. When people come together with the same vision of helping and changing a community’s way of living‚ it is essentially what community development is all about. Community development has many different definitions‚ however

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    Community policing is a tool that allows police forces to be in close contact with the community. The purpose for this is to control and reduce crime in an area and to also establish a close relationship between the law and the common person. However due to the large amount of people who are victims of profiling each year‚ tensions are rapidly growing between the police officers and the communities that they serve. Even though the exact number of people who experience this is unknown‚ it is a big

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    Community service‚ work done without pay‚ is becoming increasingly familiar to high school students nation-wide. Schools are encouraging student to participate in communities that contribute so much to their public education. However‚ requiring 100 hours of community service is asking too much of students and should be reduced to 50 hours. Students already have their hands full among homework‚ clubs‚ sports‚ and their actual lives. Because the work may not be volunteering if it is required‚ then

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    geographically and demographically‚ underneath it all they both have to deal with the same issues of policing. They deal with staffing‚ politics‚ crime‚ crime prevention and the community. This is an in depth look at some of these issues in rural and urban areas. Community Relations In order to understand the difference of police-community relationships between rural and urban areas‚ it is important to know the definition of police. Police is the “the department of government concerned primarily with maintenance

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    From 2008 to the last year of being president of the United States Barack Obama has made a difference not just for the country but the community itself we live in. Serving in his 2 terms so far‚ the community of the country have seen the changes that has come to benefit for the U.S. in the future. From simply dropping the percentage of the unemployment rate every year to making history by legalizing gay marriage we must come to the realization that Obama is simply trying to adjust to the present

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    In order to graduate some people feel as if teens should have a community service project. Should they have a community service project? As like many things doing a community service project can have some good things to it like for instince helping others at free will with no money or keeping teens out of trouble. But we have found more bad reasons to this rather than fiinding good ones. Here are some of these reasons‚ like many people in this world most teens do not have transportation and not havinig

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    and Participation for Communities of Practice A Paper Presented To Allen Stout In partial fulfillment of the requirement of MGMT 300‚ Management Practicum University of La Verne College of Business and Public Management S Tinsley La Verne‚ California October 30‚ 2012 Introduction A community of practice (CoP) is‚ according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger‚ a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession. The community may evolve naturally

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    Welcome to ADHE 329 Sections 93Q‚ 93S and 93T This course is delivered online May 11 through June 18‚ 2015. Before the start date‚ using your CWL ID and password login to the new online learning environment "Connect": <http://resources.connect.ubc.ca/student-resources/> Become familiar with the new Blackboard course tools by reviewing the orientation and how to videos: * Self-paced Student Orientation to the new online learning environment "Connect" * How-to Videos and Print Materials On May

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