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Community Partnerships
Demonstrating an ability to effectively cultivate, facilitate, and maintain high-quality partnerships with community organizations and representatives.
Course Objectives
- Consider the role of the community-engaged professional as institutional liaison including representing engaged learning on campus, guiding preparation for faculty, students, and developing tools in collaboration with community collaborators
- Understand the collaborator motives behind engaged partnership
- Identify theories of asset-based community engagement, including approaches to partnership, that respect and engage collaborators in reciprocal planning.
- Describe activities that immerse you in local community, its assets and networks, and the community’s relationship with your institution
- Articulate phases of partnership development and strategies for deepened, sustainable collaboration
- Dive into relationship building and communication strategies for planning, articulating, and sustaining collaboration
- Plan for student, faculty, and partner preparation and training
- Examine strategies for conflict resolution, collaborative evaluation, and celebration
- Synthesize and expand module strategies into deepened and sustained partnerships through praxis – theory into action
Reference Cited:
- Bringle, R. G., Clayton, P. H., & Price, M. (2009). Partnerships in service learning and civic engagement. Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning & Civic Engagement, 1(1), 1–20.
- Eddy, P. L. (2010). Partnerships and collaboration in higher education: AEHE. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Hamerlinck, J., & Plaut, J. (2014). Asset-based community engagement in higher education. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Campus Compact.