Abstract
As attention to community engagement nurtures and it is important that instructors, students, and community associatescomprehend how it is conceptualized. This paper representsresults from a qualitative review with academics and community engagement superintendents nationwide with esteem to how they conceptualize community service.This article reiterates the definition and thoughtfulnessof communityservice as one of the crucialareas of Higher Education Establishments in Ethiopia.Itsseizures the significance of a proper methodologyin the direction of community serviceand contributes about a applied method through the multifacetedinteraction between academic societies and communities. The present study will launch a healthierawareness of the community, its traditions, and its cultural programs as anall-inclusive platform for consideratelocalsocieties. Theproposed recommendationsmay facilitate community engagement architects to prepare andimplement community servicesschemes effectively.
Highlights
Educational organizations or universities main goals are preparingthe students more intellectual minds and hire the motivated teachers and initiate the research, scholar activity and national recognition for developing innovative ideas to grow selectively, serve the region and achieve distinction(Bishaw & Melesse, 2017)(Bhagwan, 2017).The main purpose of present study is to investigate the higher educational organizations or universities’approachability towards community engagement, using the experience of fast-growing higher education institution in Bule Hora as a model-based case study
The focus of study aimed to various objectives of higher educational institutions by the Ethiopian Higher Education Act to giveawareness to local community development as a third pillar of service to society along with other two pillars such as teaching and learning, and research(Antonio et al, 2000)
The Ethiopian higher education environment is basically hampered by a combination of academic, socio-political, and economic challenges and all those are resulted in much instability situations
Summary
Educational organizations or universities main goals are preparingthe students more intellectual minds and hire the motivated teachers and initiate the research, scholar activity and national recognition for developing innovative ideas to grow selectively, serve the region and achieve distinction(Bishaw & Melesse, 2017)(Bhagwan, 2017).The main purpose of present study is to investigate the higher educational organizations or universities’approachability towards community engagement, using the experience of fast-growing higher education institution in Bule Hora as a model-based case study. The Ethiopian higher education environment is basically hampered by a combination of academic, socio-political, and economic challenges and all those are resulted in much instability situations Due to this reason, engagement with local community bodiesretains the potential to drive out by instable the disciplinebasedrestrictions of higher educational institutions to a www.psychologyandeducation.net multifaceted concern with common issues. In any nation there is a need for universities and educational organizations to dedicate themselves towards transforming into socially responsible civic institutions through their institutional cultures and policies(Lazarus, 2007) This claimcome together into a range of interests that academics began engaging in. Holland (2005) had noted that institutional approaches to engagement vary according to their unique missions and regional settings such as rural or urban campuses Such factors are crucial to understanding how engagement is understood and expressed within a state’s larger cultural, demographic, political, economic, and historical context. Importance research questions related to the community engagement are addressed
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