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Serving the Community through Discipline-Specific Consulting
Author: Gunaratna, Nilupa S.
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Consultation Programs,Teaching Methods,Community Involvement,Higher Education,Community Surveys,Case Studies,Partnerships in Education,School Community Relationship,Consultants,Community Services,Public Agencies,Nonprofit Organizations

Discipline-specific consulting has a critical place in any university as a form of community outreach. For example, when government and nonprofit organizations need objective information for decision making, a university-driven consulting program providing free services can fulfill their needs. We show how this can be accomplished by describing a project completed by Statistics in the Community (Statcom), a graduate student-run organization at Purdue University. Statcom helped the city of West Lafayette, Indiana, develop and analyze the results of two community surveys. We use this as a case study to illustrate the multiple benefits of implementing such an engagement opportunity at any university and argue that discipline-specific consulting should play a major role in university outreach. This case study also illustrates how students can be utilized to fulfill a university's engagement mission.
Preparing Future Faculty for Community Engagement: Barriers, Facilitators, Models, and Recommendations
Author: O'Meara, KerryAnn
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Barriers,Faculty,School Community Programs,Models,Community Involvement,Graduate Study,Higher Education,Outreach Programs,Partnerships in Education,Community Responsibility,Facilitators (Individuals),Literature Reviews

This article considers the historical and current national context for integrating community engagement into graduate education. While it might be argued that most graduate education contributes generally to society by advancing knowledge, we are referring here to community engagement that involves some reciprocal interaction between graduate education (through students and faculty) and the public, an interaction that betters both the discipline and the public or set of stakeholders for whom the work is most relevant. The authors survey and synthesize the literature on the history of graduate education in the United States and assess current barriers to and facilitators of integrating community engagement into doctoral programs. The authors consider what models already exist that might be replicated. Finally, the article concludes with a set of recommendations for national service-learning and outreach organizations, graduate deans, department chairs, and faculty interested in integrating community engagement into their doctoral programs.
Measuring Community-University Partnerships across a Complex Research University: Lessons and Findings from a Pilot Enterprise Data Collection Mechanism
Author: Holton, Valerie L.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Community Relationship,Urban Universities,Case Studies,Community Development,Pilot Projects,Surveys,Semi Structured Interviews,Institutional Mission,Strategic Planning,Human Capital

As universities institutionalize a public mission, they seek strategies and opportunities to more deeply involve external stakeholders in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. These partnerships support universities in their efforts to generate new knowledge, educate the citizenry, and to improve the well-being of communities. This case study reviews the development and implementation of a pilot enterprise data collection process to identify and describe partnerships across a large, complex, urban research university. It highlights findings from the pilot, how the information has been used, and recommendations for systematic data collection efforts.
Leveraging Internal Partnerships and Existing Data Infrastructure to Track and Assess Community Engagement across the University
Author: Holton, Valerie L.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Partnerships in Education,Colleges,Case Studies,School Community Relationship,Community Involvement,Data Collection,Outreach Programs,Cooperation,Stakeholders,Service Learning,Records (Forms),Online Surveys,College Faculty,Volunteers,College Students,Student Records,School Personnel,Research Methodology

Universities increasingly see community engagement as a means to achieve their mission. In order to assess the impact of these efforts, it is necessary to gather and analyze data from across the institution on community-engaged activities. This article presents a case study of Virginia Commonwealth University's efforts in developing enterprise data mechanisms that track and assess community engagement across teaching, research, and service activities. We focus attention on the importance of internal collaboration and reliance on existing internal data mechanisms as key strategies. Lessons learned and uses of the data are discussed.
Exploring Community-Engaged Scholarship as an Intervention to Change and Improve Communities
Author: Watson-Thompson, Jomella
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scholarship,Community Development,Educational Policy,Institutional Mission,Intervention,Community Change,Interdisciplinary Approach,Service Learning,School Community Relationship,College Students,College Faculty

For most colleges and universities, community-engaged scholarship (CES) is a value that supports the public mission of academic institutions. However, shifting CES from a core value to a guiding principle requires demonstrable support and structural modifications to academic practices and policies. Through this reflective paper, I will propose some considerations for how academic institutions may develop and support a culture of community-engaged scholarship to collaboratively contribute to meaningful and lasting improvements with communities.
Tracking Culture: The Meanings of Community Engagement Data Collection in Higher Education
Author: Rosing, Howard
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Universities,School Community Relationship,Service Learning,Role of Education,School Role,Social Justice,Ethnography,Community Development,Measurement,Data Collection,Recognition (Achievement),Marketing,Budgets,Documentation,Educational Assessment,Data Analysis

The essay briefly outlines the history of community engagement at DePaul University in order to explore how and why universities and colleges are increasingly adopting data collections systems for tracking community engagement. I explore the question of why there is a growing interest in tracking engagement within the academy and suggest that dominant meanings attached to tracking behavior (e.g., recognition, marketing, budget legitimation) overshadow more critical and political rationales for documenting engagement, such as those that emerge out of aspiration to understand how higher education can play a role in promoting social justice and transforming communities. I argue that the latter requires a critical, self-reflexive, ethnographic approach to tracking that illuminates not only positive outcomes of engagement but also the inevitable challenges or failures of engagement that can limit student learning, faculty scholarship, and, perhaps most importantly, community benefit.
A Community-Based Activities Survey: Systematically Determining the Impact on and of Faculty
Author: Perry, Lane
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Community Surveys,Case Studies,Teacher Participation,College Faculty,Test Construction,School Community Relationship,Community Development,Teacher Motivation,Strategic Planning,Measurement Techniques,College Role,Activities,School Personnel

As a descriptive case study from Western Carolina University (WCU), this article describes the development of a measuring, monitoring, and tracking system (the WCU Community-based Activities Survey) for faculty engagement in, adoption of, and impact through community engagement practices both internal and external to their courses. This paper will outline the process for developing and refining the WCU Community-based Activities Survey and will highlight the goals and perspectives that informed the survey design, the approach to administering the survey across the institution, and approaches for generating buy-in from and recognition for faculty. Clearly, an essential element in the equation of institutionalized community engagement is the professoriate, and faculty assessment of mutually beneficial outcomes is imperative. Finally, this paper identifies the transferable lessons learned through the development, distribution, and assessment processes associated with this case and offers both the process and survey as resources to the field of community engagement and service-learning.
Universities as Intermediaries: Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship
Author: Tekula, Rebecca
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Universities,Entrepreneurship,Partnerships in Education,Experiential Learning,Access to Education,Social Problems,Innovation,Metropolitan Areas,Financial Support,Program Descriptions,Research Projects,Seminars,Nonprofit Organizations,College Role

Metropolitan universities are well poised in communities to be intermediaries among various actors involved in social innovation. Pace University established one of the first institutes on social entrepreneurship. Its unique position at the university level allows programming to transcend certain institutional challenges. The emerging field of impact investing is fertile ground for partnerships allowing the university to serve as resource provider, while benefiting from myriad opportunities for student and faculty engagement, experiential learning, and access.
Community Chairs as a Catalyst for Campus Collaborations in STEM
Author: Grandgenett, Neal
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: STEM Education,Partnerships in Education,Undergraduate Students,Department Heads,Models,Universities,Metropolitan Areas,Administrator Role,Expectation,Cooperation,Educational Objectives,Strategic Planning,Instructional Leadership,Grants,Inquiry,Outreach Programs,Program Implementation

Strong collaborative partnerships are critical to the ongoing success of any urban or metropolitan university in its efforts to build the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career pathways so critical to our nation. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha, we have established a faculty leadership structure of &quot;community chairs&quot; that work across colleges to support campus priorities. This paper describes UNO's STEM community chair model, including selected initiatives, impacts, and challenges to date.
30,000 Degrees: Steps toward the Formation of a Staten Island Higher Education Partnership
Author: Fanuzzi, Robert
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Partnerships in Education,School Community Relationship,College Readiness,Metropolitan Areas,Colleges,Academic Degrees,College School Cooperation,School Community Programs,Citizen Participation

In order to confront lower than average completion rates in New York City and to provide a strong economic and civic foundation for Staten Island, the borough's three institutions of higher education, College of Staten Island/City University of New York, St. John's University, and Wagner College, have brought together their high school and community partners to form the Staten Island Educational Partnership. Broad-based and cross-sectoral, the partnership has the goal of achieving 30,000 college degrees by 2025.
IN Like Flint: How the Innovation Incubator at UM-Flint Fosters Social Entrepreneurship in a City Remaking Itself
Author: Custer, Nic
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Universities,Educational Innovation,Entrepreneurship,Social Problems,Outreach Programs,School Community Programs,Mentors,Community Development,Business,Urban Planning,Program Development,Case Studies,Program Evaluation,Strategic Planning

This paper focuses on how the University of Michigan-Flint's Innovation Incubator supports emerging for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations through programming, business plan development, and ongoing mentorship. The Incubator is especially interested in supporting start-ups that address key social issues in the surrounding community, including economic vitality. This goal aligns with the university's mission, which emphasizes that engaged citizens can exercise some control over the social, environmental, and economic factors in the larger community. (Additional contributions to the article were provided by Kimon Criner, Sara McDonnell, and Sherry Hayden.)
Creighton Collaborative Health Professions Partnership: Assessing Impact beyond the Numbers
Author: Houtz, Lynne E.
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Church Related Colleges,Private Colleges,Disproportionate Representation,Minority Group Students,Partnerships in Education,College School Cooperation,Mixed Methods Research,Program Effectiveness,Health Sciences,Health Occupations,Interviews,Focus Groups,Student Surveys,Elementary School Students,Middle School Students,High School Students,College Students

Creighton University, a private Jesuit institution in the Midwest, included a Health Professions Partnership Initiative (HPPI) to increase the pool of qualified underrepresented minority applicants by identifying students early and encouraging their progress through elementary and middle school, high school, college, and professional schools. Activities available to the five hundred student participants included workshops on study skills and time management, summer research institutes, enrichment activities including classroom presentations by medical professionals, shadowing, ACT skill building, priority registration for science and math programs, college prep planning, regular informational and social meetings, mentor/mentee sessions, and academic counseling. Quantitative and qualitative research results reveal that the HPPI was a successful collaboration yielding satisfactory results with the resources available to encourage academic achievement, the exploration of health sciences as a career choice, and development of positive attitudes of participants toward themselves, peers, academic success, health careers, health and safety issues, and Creighton University.
The Complexities of Community-Based Websites
Author: Bomberger, Ann
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Web Sites,School Community Programs,College Role,Colleges,Sustainability,Teacher Participation,College Faculty,Conservation (Environment),Readiness,Cooperation,Communication Strategies,Participative Decision Making

This article describes the development and ongoing operations of the GreenEriePA.org project, a portal to all things environmental in Erie County, PA. Through regular input from community partners, GreenEriePA turned into a much larger, long-term project than the faculty coordinators at Gannon University, Erie, PA, originally anticipated. We utilize Eckerle Curwood and others' (2011) framework for planning long-term community-based learning projects to reflect upon community-based websites and to make recommendations.
Zipcar Theater: The Tacoma Theater Project as an Anchor for Audience Development
Author: Kula, Michael
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Audiences,Theater Arts,Colleges,Urban Schools,Costs,Urban Areas,State Colleges,School Community Relationship

As theater audiences decline society-wide, university theater programs have felt the impact, with many being cut back as institutions face difficult economic decisions. The Tacoma Theater Project at the University of Washington-Tacoma is an innovative effort to resist this trend. By working with professional theater groups in a partnership inspired by a collective insourcing model, the university uses its resources to support fringe theater groups in order to diversify and grow the local audience.
Inclusive Assessment: Toward a Socially-Just Methodology for Measuring Institution-Wide Engagement
Author: Getto, Guiseppe
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Justice,Incentives,School Culture,Educational Quality,Institutional Mission,Barriers,Organizational Change,Institutional Evaluation,Teacher Education,School Community Relationship,Universities,Interdisciplinary Approach,Service Learning

Institutions are increasingly being called upon to collect large amounts of data to demonstrate community impact. At institutions with strong and wide-reaching public engagement/service missions, this expectation is even greater--both for quality improvement and for demonstrating regional transformation. Despite these expectations, the decentralized culture of many campuses and lack of external incentives for individual faculty and departments can present significant barriers to telling a complete, representative, institutional story of engagement. This article explores the efforts of one campus to develop an inclusive assessment methodology in order to meet multifaceted institutional needs and navigate challenges. We take into account the particular dynamics of a specific campus culture to develop a process that is unique to the needs and particularities of our institution. At the same time, we hope that this methodology will demonstrate transferability to other institutions.
Supporting University-Community Partnerships through Shared Governance and Assessment
Author: Beckett, Kelsey
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Community Relationship,Governance,Institutional Mission,Futures (of Society),Metropolitan Areas,Partnerships in Education,Case Studies,Violence,Antisocial Behavior,Art Education,Construction Industry,Neighborhoods,Career Education,Technology Education

University-community partnerships have always been an important part of Towson University's mission and charge as an anchor institution in the Baltimore metropolitan region. After the recent unrest in Baltimore, these partnerships are more important than ever. This paper will explore Towson's institutional partnership governance and new partnership support system, as well as how both helped the university respond after the riots in Baltimore City. The future of partnerships at Towson University will also be discussed.
Deepening the Institutionalization of Service-Learning: The Added Value of Assessing the Social Return of Investment
Author: Stanton-Nichols, Kathleen
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Service Learning,School Community Relationship,Partnerships in Education,Metropolitan Areas,Case Studies,Community Involvement,Physical Education,Tourism,Management Development,Quality of Life,Social Integration,Institutional Mission,School Culture,College Students,College Faculty,Student Participation,Leadership,Social Networks,Outcomes of Education,Student Attitudes,Administrator Attitudes,Focus Groups

Strategies to institutionalize service-learning are well documented (Furco 1996; Holland, 2000). Using Kecskes (2009) Community-Engaged Department Rubric we evaluated service-learning institutionalization within a school at a metropolitan campus. As a result, we propose adding an additional dimension, social return on investment. This added dimension helps academic leaders to understand the benefits, for a variety of stakeholders, of investing in service-learning and more broadly in campus-community partnerships. Implications and recommendations are offered to replicate this analysis.
Engaged Faculty at the University of New Hampshire: The Outreach Scholars Academy
Author: Abrams, Eleanor
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Faculty Development,Outreach Programs,Scholarship,Teacher Researchers,Communities of Practice,Research Universities,Land Grant Universities,Curriculum Development,Models,Surveys,Focus Groups,Interviews

Faculty development has been identified as a means of enhancing the ability of faculty members at higher education institutions to conduct scholarly engagement with community partners. The University of New Hampshire developed a semester-long Outreach Scholars Academy to help faculty partner with key external stakeholders in conducting research that will benefit the public and to enhance an engagement ethos across the campus. Faculty were selected through a competitive nomination and selection process. The outreach scholars work to learn and apply concepts of engagement through lectures, case studies, panel discussions, and reflection about their own project work. This program is supported by a national expert, engaged faculty experts, coaches, and the use of critical friends. Results indicate that faculty have gained a greater understanding of how to work with external and community partners, conduct scholarly research, and communicate their work to others as a scholarly endeavor.
One Block at a Time: Win-Win Situations for Community Design
Author: Bivins, Danny
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Citizen Participation,Community Education,Community Development,Partnerships in Education,School Community Relationship,School Community Programs,Community Involvement,Teamwork

Citizen participation and community education are critical to encouraging attractive and sustainable growth. The Alliance for Quality Growth (AQG), housed at the University of Georgia, was formed to increase awareness and understanding of the wide variety of planning and growth management tools available, including the charrette, a proven technique for delivering design solutions in a short time through an intensive community-based process. To help in situations not appropriate for a full charrette, the AQG has developed a &quot;mini-charrette&quot; that combines a team of experts and a shortened input/local education component. This article documents how the mini-charrette was used in restoring a portion of downtown Warrenton, Georgia. Through this technique, the town obtained expert advice that enabled it to visualize untapped potential at minimal cost, and students gained real-world experience by creating a design that fit the town's character and aesthetics. [This article was written with Ann Allen and Jan Coyne.]
Outreach and Engagement in a Retail Environment: The University Meets Home Improvement
Author: Teaford, Margaret H.
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Retailing,Interior Design,Allied Health Occupations Education,Consumer Economics,Outreach Programs,Housing,Workshops,School Business Relationship,Program Descriptions,Adult Students,Universities,Community Programs

Even at land-grant institutions, faculty seldom work with commercial retailers on community programs. Retailers can help with outreach and engagement programs because they provide the &quot;natural habitat&quot; for consumers the programs seek to address. Allied health, family science, and interior design faculty at the Ohio State University worked with Lowe's Home Improvement Stores to bring information to the public on home modifications and universal design, a concept that advocates for environments for people of all ages and abilities. Lowe's has collaborated in offering in-store workshops, products, and displays for consumers interested in making home modifications, as well as a universally designed model kitchen and bathroom. Because of differences in academic community and retail cultures, working together calls for flexibility; however, such collaboration can yield benefits to both partners. Retail store environments are not always ideal for teaching, but utilizing them can help academic outreach programs reach consumers.