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Title: Creating Together: Community/University Partnerships


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Creating TogetherCommunity/UniversityPartnershi
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  • Elaine Elliott, Director
  • Center for Community Service-Learning
  • University of San Diego

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Benchmarks for Partnerships
  • Stage 1 Designing the Partnership
  • Founded on a shared vision and clearly
    articulated values
  • Beneficial to partnership institutions
  • Stage 2 Building Collaborative Relationships
  • Composed of interpersonal relationships based on
    trust and mutual respect
  • Multi-dimensional they involved the
    participation of multiple sectors that act in
    service of a complex problem
  • Clearly organized and led with dynamism
  • Stage 3 Sustaining Partnerships over time
  • Integrated into the mission and support systems
    of the partnering institutions
  • Sustained by a partnership process for
    communication, decision-making, and the
    initiation of change
  • Evaluated regularly with a focus on both methods
    and outcomes

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Themes
  • Caring
  • Contextualizing
  • Connecting
  • Co-creating
  • Celebrating

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CARING
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Care about causes
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Care about relationships
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CONTEXTUALIZING
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What is your context?
  • Key local issues
  • Key conflicts
  • University leadership
  • Faculty expertise
  • Student interests
  • Service support networks
  • Local schools
  • Non-profits
  • Community groups
  • Political leaders
  • Community-based research
  • Community organizers

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CONNECTING
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Connect student leaders
  • Recruit and motivate student teams
  • Leadership courses
  • Work-study
  • Student government support for service
  • Entrust them with real responsibility
  • Organizing, scheduling, monitoring
  • Leading reflection
  • Creating new programs

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Connect faculty and staff
  • Offer stipends for building partnerships
  • Create on- and off-campus events with faculty and
    partners
  • Work toward faculty teams on projects--e.g. our
    micro-finance program

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CO-CREATING
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CELEBRATING!
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Change gracefully!
  • The story of the YES (Youth Empowered through
    Service) group--creation, dismantling, discrete
    partnerships, reemergence

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Conclusion
  • Care
  • Contextualize
  • Connect
  • Co-Create
  • Celebrate
  • Change gracefully!

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Community/University Partnerships
  • What you leave behind is not what is engraved
    in stone monuments, but what is woven into the
    lives of others.
  • -- Pericles
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