Carnegie webinar slides - HWS re-application
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
1 like•115 views
HWS re-applied for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, due 4/15/19. The review committee will share those selected in December or January.
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to Carnegie webinar slides - HWS re-application
Similar to Carnegie webinar slides - HWS re-application (20)
More from Katie Scollin Flowers
More from Katie Scollin Flowers (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Carnegie webinar slides - HWS re-application
- 1. Carnegie Community Engagement Classification - 101 What? Why? What’s in? What’s Next?
- 2. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Mission: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching aims to build a field around the use of improvement science and networked improvement communities to solve longstanding inequities in educational outcomes. . The (elective) Community Engagement Classification is intended to recognize institutionalization of community engagement within the context of a campus and its community.
- 4. 1. Documentation framework = source of “promising practices” reflecting the best work in community engagement in higher education. 2. Honor the efforts of community engaged, collaborative programs 3. Connection with the cachet of the Carnegie name. 4. Communicating with community and national “accountability” purposes. 5. Opportunity for national recognition Why elect to do an elective classification?
- 5. What is the Carnegie attempting to assess?
- 6. Background
- 7. 240 U.S. colleges and universities to received 2015 Community Engagement Classification. (83 institutions are receiving the classification for the first time, 157 are now re-classified) They join the 121 that earned in 2010= 361
- 9. Partnerships and Collaboration (with CBL focus) • National and International Service Recruitment, joint effort between CCESL and The Salisbury Center . HWS is one of only 100 colleges to match AmeriCorps awards, national ranking for alumni entering the Peace Corps • Consortiums: • Rochester Regional Network (AmeriCorps Rochester Youth Year + Urban Fellows Summer Internship Program) • Teagle Foundation supported development of the Community Based Learning Score Card • Turbo Vote (Tufts University) • Campus Compact • Strive Together • Likely others!
- 10. SERVICE-LEARNING + COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH = COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING
- 11. ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
- 13. Assessment of Community Partner perceptions
- 14. ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
- 17. Faculty support and recognition - CBL
- 19. What I learned…and potential next steps 1. Start earlier… falsely assumed 2020 application would be similar to 2010, I was wrong! Considerable more data required as evidence. 2. “The reward is in the process itself” 3. Broaden the committee (Fairfield U had four task forces working in concert (a). Leadership, Mission, and Identity, (b). Institutional Commitment and Assessment (c). Professional Development, Roles and Rewards, and Curricular Activity (d). Outreach and Partnerships 4. Breadcrumbs…
Editor's Notes
- Introductions Much like other assessment terms, benchmarking has been used appropriately and inappropriately to rate, compare, chart progress, and evaluate. benchmarking as a “promising practice” defined as “the process of identifying and learning from institutions that are recognized for outstanding practices.” They add that benchmarking often includes careful study of “best” or “promising practices.” In contrast, the processes of rating or comparing are not intended with the new classification. Why? See list 'see public engagement NOT as a program, but as a central strategy for addressing key institutional priorities. '' Cynic: Finally, there are those institutions, often prompted by individuals on the campus, who want to use the classification to highlight their lack of progress and to increase momentum to improve their engagement practices. I was told by those individuals that they were aware that they could not meet the requirements for the classification, and that such deficits would prompt attention from upper administration and motivate colleagues to dedicate more resources to the agenda.
- The essence of engagement is that it is contextualized to the communities of which the campus is a part. It is the goal of the Foundation for the Elective Classification to honor the community context. Show video clip https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/about-us/ up to one minute.. Goes on to be proactive about the exciting potential when research and practice align. Interesting history of Carnegie https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/about-us/foundation-history/ Andrew Carnegie—an American industrialist and a leading philanthropist of his time—created the Foundation to address what he perceived as a pressing issue on the education landscape at the time: the lack of any form of retirement plan or system for the faculty at institutions of higher education. His concern first surfaced as a trustee of Cornell University and through conversations with his friend Henry Pritchett, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that made evident the low salaries of higher education faculty and the glaring poverty into which most professors retired. As a result, Carnegie established the Foundation as a general pension fund for a wide range of universities in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland. To move forward with its mission, the Foundation found that it needed to determine which schools qualified as a bona fide institution of higher education and which of their faculty qualified for pensions. The resulting eligibility standards created by the Foundation became the most widely used basis for the admissions requirements and instructional policies of colleges and universities, as well as the graduation requirements for high schools. In 1918, the Foundation spun off the pension fund as an independent not-for-profit organization known as TIAA-CREF (now known as TIAA) that serves as the world’s largest retirement management system for academics, researchers, and individuals in the public serving not-for-profit sector. Education in the Professions – Medicine, law, teaching, engineering, dentistry -Higher Education Assessment In 1937, under the leadership of then President Walter Jessup, the Foundation extended its work in professional education by developing and administering the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) to assist universities in their graduate school admissions processes.
- 18 departments, 6 faculty, 14 community partnerships = 38 people. Assistance appreciated from Jessica Khalif and Robin Lewis
- 1). Institutional self-assessment / fostering institutional alignment 2). Part of our institutional identity – walk the walk and talk the talk 3. Legitimacy.. 4. Accountability – how are we showing the ways we fulfil the mission of education as commitment to serve the common good? Reciprocity and mutuality ? 5. Carnegie notes “This opportunity allowed us to lift up elements of our institutional mission and distinctiveness that are not necessarily represented in the national data on colleges and universities, and it also helped us prepare for both re-accreditation and our current strategic planning process. Colleagues have also noted it was helpful in the reaccreditation process We will talk in a minute about who has earned it, but it’s worthwhile noting that many download the application, reflect on where their universities are at, and decide to pause
- “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” – larger universities with various colleges develop teams to approach separately then collaboratively A form of Winston Churchill's quotation, made in a radio broadcast in October 1939: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
- Compare to 2009 submission… I under-estimated the difference even though I attended a workshop at Holy Cross that it was quite more involved… much more verifying claims that in the 2010 classification so a lot of time was also ensuring websites were current etc.
- 296 out of 361 – not surprising that Campuses that value association with Campus Compact are overwhelmingly represented in the total number of Carnegie designees = 83% of the 240 colleges . Not surprisingly, MG helped charter the NY State chapter of Campus Compact which is head quartered at Cornell and he was the chair of the Campus Compact board of directors in 2005. Campus Compact is a national coalition of 1,000+ colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education. We build democracy through civic education and community development. The Newman Civic Fellowship is offered through Campus Compact, HWS annually nominates a fellow to this national cohort of student leaders, and we’ve hosted numerous Campus Compact VISTAs over the years. Kevin Collado is the current Campus Compact VISTA serving at the City with Sage with a focus on food access. NY and PA recently merged.
- Spiritual Engagement – inclusive outreach to local faith communities Ontario ARC – The College Experience office in Coxe Hall HWS Arts Experience Festival –stellar example of campus/community partnership (MARY KELLY!) Finger Lakes Institute - dedicated to the promotion of environmental research and education about the Finger Lakes and surrounding environments. WEOS – Finger Lakes Public Radio Sustainability – initiatives with solar among others Did I miss some? Youth Engagement and Support HWS Summer Academy NJ SEEDS - (Scholars, Educators, Excellence, Dedication and Success) College Preparatory Program ESSYI - Environmental Studies Summer Youth Institute Discovery's Playground – 737 South Main hosts an after-school enrichment program serving Geneva School District children in grades K-5. Geneva 2020 – College bound campus visits for 500 2nd, 6th, and 9th graders annually Leadership Center – Youth Leadership College HWS summer camps – Kids Academy Geneva Scholarship Associates – investing in local youth just celebrated it’s 50th year and
- Imagining America Community engagement offers often-untapped possibilities for alignment with other campus priorities and initiatives to achieve greater impact-for example, first-year programs that include community engagement; learning communities in which community engagement is integrated into the design; or diversity initiatives that explicitly link active and collaborative community-based teaching and learning with the academic success of underrepresented students.
- Cohort Collaboration with Office of the Provost, CTL, CCESL Hosted national leaders from the field annually (Tim Eaton CBL Resources on webpage for faculty development Community Engaged Scholarship Forum – celebration of the work + annually recognizes a student, faculty member, and community partner SLC designation to help “count” and avoid a student enrolling in three…
- Co-curricular engagement… SPREADSHEET HELL!!! 60,000-80,000 hours tracked annually of service to/with the community, $40-60K annually of $ fundraised for local, national, and international non-profit… Thrive to Survive Dunk Tank, LAO Extravaganza dinner fundraiser for local scholarships, service-learning classes, internships at non-profit agencies, student teaching, days of service, Big Brothers Big Sisters, etc. Curricular engagement – Teagle Foundation co-created CBL Scorecard – community partner feedback captured on SL feedback form, and through a SL contract
- Publishing outlets – ensuring awareness of the wide variety of journals and additional outlets for community faculty student co-generated research and contributions to the field
- Partnerships require a high level of understanding of and intentional practices specifically directed to reciprocity and mutuality. Campuses have begun to attend to processes of initiating and nurturing collaborative, two way partnerships, and are developing strategies for systematic communication. Maintaining authentically collaborative, mutually beneficial partnerships takes ongoing commitment, and we urge institutions to continue their attention to this critical aspect of community engagement.
- The StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network is a national, nonprofit network of nearly 70 communities working to improve outcomes for kids. We have community partnerships in 29 states and Washington, D.C.
- HWS = anchor entity of the 66 partnerships only 5 are anchored by a college (most are large corporations in large cities)
- SLAC has reviewed Standards and Criteria document… some departments fully embrace CBL ie. Education Dept. and their work is an example to others who might be interested in further exploring how to integrate language into their SAC documents. CCESL has a faculty CBL list-serve and shares publishing outlets for this work, wide variety of peer reviewed journals CTL, the Provost’s Office, and CCESL collaborated on an inaugural stipended CBL Faculty Cohort retreat in 2018.
- 1). 50 pages vs. 100 pages + the community partner section 2). Review it more broadly as an opportunity to examine, question, and learn as opposed to a hoop to jump through… great to learn more about other departments engagement! (ie. the Diversity timeline!) 3). Take advantage of resources… 361 people have suffered through this, I mean embraced the challenge! 4). If I get hit by a bus, here’s how you find the application! Also… reminder to pick our heads up – we all do great work and often collaboratively, but where could we further save time, energy and maximize student learning and community impact… Ellen is a community member on the Institutional Review Board… THANK YOU! Add WEOS or Ontario ARC to SL Advisory Council . How might Geneva 2020 engage with the curriculum? Public policy, social innovation, etc. Should we collaborate on an institution wide definition of community engagement (as opposed to the big tent approach) How can we successfully initiate a campus-wide conversation about what constitutes community engaged scholarship?