Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships : A Handbook / Elizabeth A. Tryon, Haley Madden, and Cory Sprinkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tryon, Elizabeth A., author.

Madden, Haley, author.

Sprinkel, Cory, 1994- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community and college--United States.

Community and college.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Public relations--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]

Summary:

When done properly, community engagement in academia can have value for all stakeholders. Authentic experiences are more useful for students; faculty can add new knowledge to the field and their own toolbelts; and communities feel their investment has generated a useful deliverable or even a long-term partnership. Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships provides a wealth of valuable resources and activities to help impart ideas of identity, privilege, oppression, bias, and power dynamics to best support students and community in these relationships. Believing that authenticity only comes about in an atmosphere of mutual respect and self-awareness, the authors argue for cultural and intellectual humility. Each chapter looks at topics and issues through different lenses, complete with underlying theories, and relates those discussions to concrete classroom activities, facilitation strategies, and scholarly frames. In addition, the authors include contributions from a diverse group of practitioners at community colleges, private colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions. Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships is a much-needed, comprehensive resource for community-engaged professionals as they prepare students for building relationships when entering a community for learning or research purposes.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction and Theory

1. Introduction to Community Engagement

2. Theoretical Background of Student Preparation

Part II. Essential Concepts of Community Engagement Preparation

3. Motivations for Community Engagement

4. Building Student Self-Awareness-Identity and Socialization

Contribution: Student Leader Perspective on Community-Based Learning / Bertha A. Gonzalez

5. Institutional Power Dynamics

Contributions: Listening to the Community / Kathy Cramer

The Threat of School Closure and Staying Community Engaged through ABCD / John W. Zeigler Jr.

6. Student Skills for Community Engagement

Contribution: Edgewood College Bonner Project and Community-Engaged Learning Initiatives / Virginia Lee

7. Cultural and Intellectual Humility

Contribution: Re: Self-Awareness, Humility, and Empathy: Interview with Student from UC San Diego

Part III. Additional Skills, Contexts, and Considerations

8. Building a Critical Classroom

Contributions: Ethnographic Sensibilities in Community-Engaged Learning / Ruth Kassel

University of Connecticut-Student Training for Husky Sport / Justin Evanovich, Sandeep Dutta, Jamie Morales, Jennifer McGarry, and Kolin Ebron

9. Relationship-Centered Systems

Contributions: Seeds Planted Will Grow / Makeda Zulu and James DeSota

We're in This Together: Willing Your Own Engagement Coalition Ecosystem to Fruition / Jamilah Ducar

UW South Madison Partnership / Merry Farrier-Babanovski

Planning and Landscape Architecture's Earth Partnership: Connecting Students with Tribes and Other Community Partners Using Land-Based Learning for Reciprocal Community Relationships / Maria Moreno and Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong.

10. Context Matters: Reflections from HBCUs and MSIs and Working beyond the United States

Contributions: Community Engagement Challenges and Opportunities at an Urban Community College / Lena Jones

Why Didn't It Work? When Preparation and Practice Do Not Lead to Success / Del M. N. Bharath

Hispanic Servingness and Community Engagement / Azuri Gonzalez

Advising Underrepresented Students Who Participate in a Community College Mentoring Program / Amelia Ortiz

Rise-Up: A Mentorship Program to Help Enable Institutions to Support Minority Students / Aaron Posey

International Community-Engaged Scholarship / Laura Livingston

11. Final Thoughts

Appendixes

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439922750

1439922756