international institute on partnerships - Portland State University

TUESDAY, MAY 24th
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS FACILITATED BY COMMUNITY/HIGHER EDUCATION PARTNERS (continued from page 9)
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Five Points of Partnership:
A Campus and Community
Partnership Approach to Building
Healthier Communities
The Five Points of Partnership
workshop will prepare participants
to effectively participate in creating
healthier communities and overcoming
complex societal problems that require
collaborative solutions. Participants will
discuss what makes healthy communities,
examine the decline in civic participation,
define individual roles in active
citizenship, engage in a five-step process
of developing effective partnerships,
discuss opportunities for incorporating
engaged teaching, research and service
into partnership activities, and process
next steps and opportunities to engage
respective campuses and communities
in partnership endeavors. Five Points
of Partnership and WKU’s Campus &
Community Network provide replicable
opportunities for engaged scholarship
activities such as service-learning and
community-based research. This session
will provide steps in developing an applied
learning experience aimed at building
capacity for democratic engagement.
Presenters: Leah Ashwill, Director,
ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships,
Western Kentucky University
Terry Shoemaker, Program Coordinator,
WKU Institute for Citizenship &
Responsibility
Courte Voorhees, Assistant Professor,
WKU Institute for Citizenship & Social
Responsibility
The Battle between “Helping”
and “Serving”: Creating Learning
Environments that Model
Reciprocity
Utilizing Rachel Remen’s “Helping, Fixing
or Serving” paradigm this interactive and
reflective presentation will facilitate a
discussion on how to promote meaningful
learning and service outcomes while
forging reciprocal campus-community
partnerships. With the assumption that
community engaged partnerships must
challenge students’ notions of helping
and fixing to prepare them to emerge as
leaders for social change, the session will
explore the roles of faculty, supporting
staff and community partners in creating
a learning environment that fosters
equality and reciprocity in relationships,
instills the desire to move beyond quickfixes
into understanding the root causes
of social issues, and encourages continued
commitment to social change. Participants
will work collaboratively to examine
challenges and opportunities inherent
in promoting this learning paradigm
shift throughout the different phases of
partnership building and sustainability.
Presenters: Rosangela Boyd, Director,
Community Involvement and Service
Learning, Texas Christian University
Mary Kathleen Baldwin, Associate
Director, Texas Christian University
Service Learning as Relational
Learning: The Transformative
Power of Partnerships
Since 1995 over 2,000 college students
at Portland State (PSU) have participated
in this university’s largest partnership,
Camp Kiwanis, a camp for children and
adults with special needs. Researchers
studied the impact that participation in
this partnership had on PSU graduates
(1-15 years post-graduation). The results
of the study of PSU graduates were
profound. Through a critical incident
interview technique graduates reported
that this Capstone course was one of the
most significant learning experiences in
their college career as they described
the ways with which they deepened their
appreciation of the diversity of the human
experience, how they critically analyzed
previously held stereotypes, and how
these new attitudes transformed their lives
post-graduation. This session provides a
model that can be replicated to produce
greater research on long-term impact of
partnerships especially the effects that
transformational relationships have on
graduates.
Presenters: Seanna Kerrigan, Capstone
Program Director, Portland State
University
Ann Fullerton, Professor of Special
Education, Portland State University
Vicki Reitenauer, Instructor, Women’s
Studies, Portland State University
Transforming Partnerships for
Change
Literature positions reciprocity as a
fundamental aspect of partnerships but
universities and communities continue
to grapple with the nature of partner
relationships. At the same time that
we create, maintain, and nurture our
campus-community partnerships, our
ultimate goals of mutual transformation
and capacity building require that we also
critique the nature of these partnerships
in two fundamental ways. First we have
to deconstruct the powerful structural
and institutional forces that make such
partnerships difficult in the first place.
We need to examine the patterns and
traditions of politics and elite interests that
separate most colleges and universities
from the communities that surround them.
And we need to ask, “How can we work
across both academic and community
organizations to break down historic
barriers and build new skills and values
that facilitate reciprocity?” Second, we
have to create a collective vision of what
these relationships should become as we
move from more traditional “partnership”
with overlapping interests to a more
collaborative model. In this presentation/
workshop/collaboration, Holland and
Dolgon will look at the institutional and
structural challenges both campus and
community people face in developing
and maintaining relationships. We
will offer a brief case study or two to
demonstrate these challenges and how
some have succeeded and others failed in
addressing the challenges. We’ll conclude
by facilitating a discussion about the
potential for transcending the traditional
notions of partnerships and creating more
collaborative and democratic relationships.
Nadia DeLeon, Community Engagement
Coordinator, WKU Center for Community
Partnerships
Presenters: Corey Dolgon, Professor
Sociology, and Director, Office
of Community-based Learning,
Stonehill College
Barbara Holland, Professor, University of
Sydney
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