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Nebraska Initiative For Aerospace Research And Industrial Development (Niarid): Final Report, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 02-1

The Nebraska Initiative for Aerospace Research and Industrial Development (NIARID) was designed to accelerate the state’s efforts to expand its capacity, national competitiveness, and infrastructure in aerospace research and industry. The systemic goal of the NIARID was to strengthen Nebraska’s long-term ability to develop new, and strengthen current, aerospace research activities that increase the state’s national research competitiveness, foster sustainable growth in aerospace-related industry and the state’s economic development; complement the mission and activities of the Nebraska Space Grant Consortium (NSGC); and advance the goals of NASA and its enterprises. Funding from NIARID accelerated the establishment of …

The Sustaining Factors Of Service-Learning At A National Leader School: A Case Study, Bruce J. Pontbriand

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

This case study examines the sustaining factors of a fully implemented and nationally recognized high school service-learning program. More specifically, it investigates why Community Service Learning has sustained itself for nine years at a New England high school recognized as a National Service-Learning Leader School by the Corporation for National Service. The study describes the process of adoption, design, implementation, and paths to institutionalization. It also considers the organizational conditions that promoted institutionalization at this site. The research approach was primarily qualitative. The study exposes the broad narrative of the case from the perspective off Our data sources: observations, documents …