Creating Together: Community/University Partnerships

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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