The Community Engagement Professional In Higher Education

Author : Lina D. Dostilio
Publisher : Campus Compact
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781945459054

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The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education by Lina D. Dostilio Pdf

This book, offered by “practitioner-scholars,” is an exploration and identification of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to supporting effective community engagement practices between higher education and communities. The discussion and review of these core competencies are framed within a broader context of the changing landscape of institutional community engagement and the emergence of the Community Engagement Professional as a facilitator of engaged teaching, research, and institutional partnerships distinct from other academic professionals. This research, conducted as part of Campus Compact’s Project on the Community Engagement Professional, seeks to identify the shared knowledge and practices of Community Engagement Professionals by looking to empirical practice literature. Chapters include an exploration of competencies applicable to those in Community Engagement Professional roles generally, and also to those specializing in specific areas such as faculty development, partnership facilitation, and other areas of responsibility. The authors trace the evolution of engagement administration over time and the role of those facilitating community-campus engagement toward a “Second Generation” professional who is at once a “tempered radical, transformational leader, and social entrepreneur.” Central to the work is a presentation of the core competency findings, along with suggestions for continued exploration. Dostilio and her colleagues argue that Community Engagement Professionals should claim a professional identity grounded in a set of core competencies, values, and knowledge, and through association with a community of scholar practitioners similarly dedicated. Additional work to understand and empower Community Engagement Professionals in their role as distinct from other higher education professional types will enable both broader impact for institutions and communities now with a view to prepare those coming to the role for a dynamic and demanding environment without distinct boundaries.

Author : Lina D. Dostilio,Marshall Welch
Publisher : Campus Compact
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781945459207

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The Community Engagement Professional's Guidebook by Lina D. Dostilio,Marshall Welch Pdf

This book is a companion guide to Campus Compact’s successful publication The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education. In the first text, Campus Compact Research Fellows - led by award-winning scholar-practitioner Lina D. Dostilio - identified a core of set of competencies needed by professionals charged with leading community engaged work on college campuses. In this companion guide, Dostilio teams up with Marshall Welch to build on the initial framework by offering guidance for how a community engagement professional (CEP) should conceptualize, understand, and develop their practice in each of the original competency areas. Over 10 chapters the authors address questions for those “brand new to the role” and interested in how to start a community engagement unit or center, or from people who are considering jobs doing the work on a campus, or from individuals “are trying to navigate the political environment on their campuses to expand and deepen their unit’s reach.” The Guidebook offers a rich and deep dive, breaking down the essential components of a professional’s work. From mentoring faculty research, leading campaigns to build civic engagement curriculum on campus, to managing the staff who support community engagement units, Dostilio and Welch tackle the breadth of the CEP’s work by drawing on key resources and their own decades of experience in the field. Throughout the book, readers will encounter “Compass Points” that call for personal reflection and engagement with the text. These interactive moments combine with end-of-chapter questions to prompt thinking about a CEP’s critical commitments, to create a powerful and engaging toolkit that will be essential for any person doing community and civic engagement work on campus.

Author : Judyth Sachs,Lindie Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811009990

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Learning Through Community Engagement by Judyth Sachs,Lindie Clark Pdf

This book charts the development of a whole-institution approach to university-community engagement at a modern Australian university, highlighting the pivotal role that curriculum renewal can play in organizational transformation. It describes how Macquarie University’s PACE (Professional and Community Engagement) program developed and fostered a culture of learning that has been at the center of academic renewal, differentiation, and institutional change. It details the development of the PACE pedagogical model, the establishment of the network of stakeholder relationships which underpin it, and the embedding of the model across the whole institution. Authored by those directly involved in the change project, this book tells the story of PACE, its achievements, challenges, success factors and future directions. A series of dovetailing contributions by leading international scholars of university-community engagement set the PACE story in its global context. This book adds to the scholarship of learning through community engagement, provides international perspectives on trends and issues in university-community engagement, contributes to a broader understanding of the practice and pedagogy of community engagement, and discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing and sustaining change in the higher education sector.

Author : W. James Jacob,Stewart E. Sutin,John C. Weidman,John L. Yeager
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463000079

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Community Engagement in Higher Education by W. James Jacob,Stewart E. Sutin,John C. Weidman,John L. Yeager Pdf

There seems to be renewed interest in having universities and other higher education institutions engage with their communities at the local, national, and international levels. But what is community engagement? Even if this interest is genuine and widespread, there are many different concepts of community service, outreach, and engagement. The wide range of activity encompassed by community engagement suggests that a precise definition of the “community mission” is difficult and organizing and coordinating such activities is a complex task. This edited volume includes 18 chapters that explore conceptual understandings of community engagement and higher education reforms and initiatives intended to foster it. Contributors provide empirical research findings, including several case study examples that respond to the following higher educaiton community engagement issues. What is “the community” and what does it need and expect from higher education institutions? Is community engagement a mission of all types of higher education institutions or should it be the mission of specific institutions such as regional or metropolitan universities, technical universities, community colleges, or indigenous institutions while other institutions such as major research universities should concentrate on national and global research agendas and on educating internationally-competent researchers and professionals? How can a university be global and at the same time locally relevant? Is it, or should it be, left to the institutions to determine the scope and mode of their community engagement, or is a state mandate preferable and feasible? If community engagement or “community service” are mandatory, what are the consequences of not complying with the mandate? How effective are policy mandates and university engagement for regional and local economic development? What are the principal features and relationships of regionally-engaged universities? Is community engagement to be left to faculty members and students who are particularly socially engaged and locally embedded or is it, or should it be, made mandatory for both faculty and students? How can community engagement be (better) integrated with the (other) two traditional missions of the university—research and teaching? Cover image: The Towering Four-fold Mission of Higher Education, by Natalie Jacob

Author : Marshall Welch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980417

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Engaging Higher Education by Marshall Welch Pdf

Co-published with For directors of campus centers that have received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement, this book offers research and models to further advance their work. For directors starting out, or preparing for application for the Carnegie Classification, it provides guidance on setting up and structuring centers as well as practical insights into the process of application and the criteria they will need to meet.Building on the findings of the research undertaken by the author and John Saltmarsh on the infrastructure of campus centers for engagement that have received the Carnegie Classification for Community, this book responds to the expressed needs of the participating center directors for models and practices they could share and use with faculty, and mid-level and upper-level administrators to more fully embed engagement into institutional culture and practice.This book is organized around the purpose (the “why”), platforms (the “how”), and programs (the “what”) that drive and frame community engagement in higher education, offering practitioners valuable information on trends of current practice based on Carnegie Classification criteria. It will also serve the needs of graduate students aspiring to become the future professoriate as engaged scholars, or considering preparation for new administrative positions being created at centers.

Author : Kathryn Anderson,Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443870115

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Knowledge in Action by Kathryn Anderson,Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron Pdf

University-Community engagement is an important part of a nation's social and economic development. An increasing focus on how knowledge is exchanged has encouraged many universities to consider their relationship and engagement with local communities. More than ever, universities are developing strategies for engaging with business, industry, government, and community, and recognise the role that they can play in the exchange of knowledge. With authorship drawn from community partners and un...

Author : Elena Klaw,Andrea Tully,Elaine K. Ikeda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000991604

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Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education by Elena Klaw,Andrea Tully,Elaine K. Ikeda Pdf

This timely book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. This book describes new models such as the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community-engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense both of tensions inherent in this work and examples of initiatives in local contexts. Chapters primarily reflect on what action is required for fulfilling our public purpose and what’s holding us back. This book provides guidance, examples, and benchmarks for best practices in community engagement that are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest and will be relevant to community-engaged professionals, higher education faculty, and college administrators.

Author : Juliet Millican,Tom Bourner
Publisher : Niace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Community and college
ISBN : 1862018669

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Learning to Make a Difference by Juliet Millican,Tom Bourner Pdf

Of equal importance to international academic and community audiences interested in learning partnerships, this book presents the latest thinking and innovations in development and professional practice in student - community engagement - an area of increasing interest and value to higher education institutions and communities alike. This book encourages the development of student-community engagement within universities and other colleges offering programmes of higher education. It aims to be a valuable and accessible resources to support individuals and groups who wish to actively pursue this development, offering perspectives from lectures and course leaders as well as students and community partners. Through this unique focused of the text, readers will gain a better understanding of the range and scope of practice for student-community engagement within the current social, economic, and political context, supported by historical background and definitions of engagement. Practical guidelines on how to approach this work are provided, illustrated in a lively way by a variety of case study examples of learning gained from a range of different projects, co-written by students and their community partners. This text will be of particular interest to those interested in new development in HE in the UK, and those specifically involved in developing university-community engagement; especially: academics engaged in curriculum design and development, those involved in various forms of student-community engagement including service learning and student volunteering, senior staff increasingly recognizing the importance of university-community development, staff working in staff development sections of universities, people working in related fields, such as careers advisors, who will recognize students community engagement as a way of development student employability.

Author : D. Butin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230106154

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Service-Learning in Theory and Practice by D. Butin Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive rethinking of the theory and practice of service-learning in higher education. Democratic and community engagement are vital aspects of linking colleges and communities, and this book critically engages the best practices and powerful alternative models in the academy. Drawing on key theoretical insights and empirical studies, Butin details the limits and possibilities of the future of community engagement in developing and sustaining the engaged campus.

Author : Iain Mac Labhrainn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317121985

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Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives by Iain Mac Labhrainn Pdf

This volume provides an original and powerful contribution to debates about the civic purpose of higher education. It suggests that universities can best realize their civic mission by making it central to their policy and practice. Bringing together researchers from three continents, the book offers an international perspective based primarily upon first-hand pedagogical experience. A transatlantic overview of the purpose, place and practice of one such pedagogy (service learning) is provided and its potential as a foundation for civic engagement assessed. In its last section the book moves from the theory of citizenship to practical considerations. In doing so, the book offers advice on establishing civic engagement to all those involved in teaching and learning within higher education.

Author : John Saltmarsh,Mathew B. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 1945459131

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The Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification by John Saltmarsh,Mathew B. Johnson Pdf

The Carnegie Engagement Classification is designed to be a form of evidence-based documentation that a campus meets the criteria to be recognized as a community engaged institution. Editors John Saltmarsh and Mathew B. Johnson use their extensive experience working with the Carnegie Engagement Classification to offer a collection of resources for institutions that are interested in making a first-time or reclassification application for this recognition. Contributors offer insight on approaches to collecting the materials needed for an application and strategies for creating a complete and successful application. Chapters include detailed descriptions of what happened on campuses that succeeded in their application attempts and even reflection from a campus that failed on their first application. Readers can make use of worksheets at the end of each chapter to organize their own classification efforts.

Author : Heather K. Evans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475830828

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Community Engagement Findings Across the Disciplines by Heather K. Evans Pdf

This book is a reference for administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various research findings across the disciplines in higher education about integrating community engagement in traditional coursework are presented. This book provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach to both incorporating and studying the effects of community engagement (service learning) in the curriculum. Multiple departments, from Kinesiology to Sociology, as well as various types of classes (undergraduate, graduate, online, face-to-face, traditional, international) are represented here. Both qualitative and quantitative work is included. Methods involved include interviews, case studies, reflections, and surveys. One chapter also uses longitudinal data collection to address the overall effect of engaging in community engagement during the undergraduate college experience. If you are not sure how to study the effects of community engagement on students at your university, this book is for you.

Author : Watson, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335220465

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Managing Civic And Community Engagement by Watson, David Pdf

The book contends that genuine engagement, with the community and with civil society, can be uncertain and risky, but that it plays an essential role in managing today’s higher education institutions.

Author : Carolin Kreber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317196563

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Educating for Civic-mindedness by Carolin Kreber Pdf

Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most effectively to their local and global communities, and how could higher education support graduates/future professionals in making this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate students for ‘civic-mindedness’, an overarching professional capability grounded in certain dispositions and qualities, ideals, types of knowledge and political emotions. ‘Civic-mindedness’, and its internal counterpart, the practitioner’s self-cultivation, give rise to an engagement with professional practice that is authentic, civic and democratic. The tension between responsiveness or regard for others and regard for self is overcome by recognising that authentic professional identities are constructed through practices around shared purposes and ideals. Drawing on a wide range of theorists including Dewey, Arendt, and Nussbaum, professions are envisaged to play a vital role. Primarily professions support society’s well-being by ensuring access to public goods, such as local and global justice, access to information, health, education, safety, housing, the beauty and sustaining power of the ecological environment, among others. Yet professions also protect the fundamental good of citizen participation in free deliberation and decision-making on issues affecting their lives. The book concludes with a vision of higher education that is transformative of graduates/professionals, pedagogies, professional practices and communities. Issues of increasing social awareness are a key concern for anyone involved in teaching professionals and this book, which builds best practice around a sound theoretical and philosophical framework, will prove both thought-provoking and practical in application.

Author : Guillermina NUNEZ-MCHIRI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Community and college
ISBN : 1524960373

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Community Engagement and High Impact Practices in Higher Education by Guillermina NUNEZ-MCHIRI Pdf