In recognition that student partners and change agents are a key enabler in the area of technology change, the change agents' network has been designed to disseminate findings and support other institutions in implementing staff-student partnerships.
The social, environmental, and economic impacts of educating and advancing skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are a strategic priority for many companies, governments, and NGOs. As you begin to build your STEM programs, how do you choose from so many excellent nonprofit partners? An effective partnership will provide a mutually beneficial partnership that enables both the business and the nonprofit to achieve their goals together.
In this interactive case study, Analog Devices will discuss the key points for choosing and engaging with nonprofit STEM partners as it shares its journey from a grass roots to regional sponsorship working with FIRST robotics. Please join us to learn more about how the company built a multi-platform approach to provide a successful partnership with FIRST robotics and created a robust program that benefited students, employees, and the community.
Speakers:
Maria Tagliaferro, Director, Technology Advocacy, Analog Devices, Inc.
Colleen Donham, Alumna, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Leadership Academy
One in three—16 million—American young people will reach the age of 19 without having had a mentor. This session prepares corporate citizenship professionals to make the business case for corporate youth mentoring programs in alignment with business and community needs and goals. Participants will explore youth mentoring program design and planning, leveraging tools and resources from MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, along with examples from diverse corporate youth mentoring programs. Further, we will examine effective employee engagement strategies focused on recruitment and retention, and we will develop sample evaluation plans for corporate youth mentoring programs. Join us and learn to:
make the business case for a corporate youth mentoring program;
design and operationalize a corporate youth mentoring program;
effectively advance employee recruitment and retention; and
measure and evaluate a corporate youth mentoring program.
Speakers:
Daniel Horgan, Corporate Partnerships Consultant, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Kristin Howard, Senior Director, Development, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Elizabeth Santiago, Senior Director, Programs, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Financial literacy is a serious subject. Corporations and colleges are beginning to recognize how crucial it is for students and young adults to learn basic financial and economic principles––for themselves and society. In 2012, volunteers from Vanguard launched My Classroom Economy, a free financial education program for students in grades K-12. In five years, Vanguard has reached 600,000 students in all 50 states and Canada.
In this session, Vanguard’s Community Stewardship leaders and a cross-functional team of My Classroom Economy volunteers will share how a passionate, creative, and diverse team can develop a corporate citizenship program that creates social value by tapping employees’ professional skills.
Attendees will learn:
Where My Classroom Economy fits into Vanguard’s community impact and giving back strategy.
How Vanguard implemented My Classroom Economy by leveraging employee volunteers from a wide range of functions within the company—from IT to HR to marketing and more.
How to make the most of existing resources within your company to develop or improve corporate citizenship programs.
Speakers:
Carra Cote-Ackah, Executive Director, Community Stewardship, Vanguard
Kyra Scalea, Manager, Community Stewardship, Vanguard
Nate Prosser, HR Senior Manager, Vanguard
Liz Krueger, HR Manager, Vanguard
Colton Fisher, Head of Institutional Investment Marketing, Vanguard
In recognition that student partners and change agents are a key enabler in the area of technology change, the change agents' network has been designed to disseminate findings and support other institutions in implementing staff-student partnerships.
The social, environmental, and economic impacts of educating and advancing skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are a strategic priority for many companies, governments, and NGOs. As you begin to build your STEM programs, how do you choose from so many excellent nonprofit partners? An effective partnership will provide a mutually beneficial partnership that enables both the business and the nonprofit to achieve their goals together.
In this interactive case study, Analog Devices will discuss the key points for choosing and engaging with nonprofit STEM partners as it shares its journey from a grass roots to regional sponsorship working with FIRST robotics. Please join us to learn more about how the company built a multi-platform approach to provide a successful partnership with FIRST robotics and created a robust program that benefited students, employees, and the community.
Speakers:
Maria Tagliaferro, Director, Technology Advocacy, Analog Devices, Inc.
Colleen Donham, Alumna, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Leadership Academy
One in three—16 million—American young people will reach the age of 19 without having had a mentor. This session prepares corporate citizenship professionals to make the business case for corporate youth mentoring programs in alignment with business and community needs and goals. Participants will explore youth mentoring program design and planning, leveraging tools and resources from MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, along with examples from diverse corporate youth mentoring programs. Further, we will examine effective employee engagement strategies focused on recruitment and retention, and we will develop sample evaluation plans for corporate youth mentoring programs. Join us and learn to:
make the business case for a corporate youth mentoring program;
design and operationalize a corporate youth mentoring program;
effectively advance employee recruitment and retention; and
measure and evaluate a corporate youth mentoring program.
Speakers:
Daniel Horgan, Corporate Partnerships Consultant, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Kristin Howard, Senior Director, Development, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Elizabeth Santiago, Senior Director, Programs, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Financial literacy is a serious subject. Corporations and colleges are beginning to recognize how crucial it is for students and young adults to learn basic financial and economic principles––for themselves and society. In 2012, volunteers from Vanguard launched My Classroom Economy, a free financial education program for students in grades K-12. In five years, Vanguard has reached 600,000 students in all 50 states and Canada.
In this session, Vanguard’s Community Stewardship leaders and a cross-functional team of My Classroom Economy volunteers will share how a passionate, creative, and diverse team can develop a corporate citizenship program that creates social value by tapping employees’ professional skills.
Attendees will learn:
Where My Classroom Economy fits into Vanguard’s community impact and giving back strategy.
How Vanguard implemented My Classroom Economy by leveraging employee volunteers from a wide range of functions within the company—from IT to HR to marketing and more.
How to make the most of existing resources within your company to develop or improve corporate citizenship programs.
Speakers:
Carra Cote-Ackah, Executive Director, Community Stewardship, Vanguard
Kyra Scalea, Manager, Community Stewardship, Vanguard
Nate Prosser, HR Senior Manager, Vanguard
Liz Krueger, HR Manager, Vanguard
Colton Fisher, Head of Institutional Investment Marketing, Vanguard
Realising the Value Stakeholder Event -Workshop: How does the system support Nesta
Workshop D - How does the system support communities/individuals and how could it do it better?
The levers and drivers that national bodies put in place and how these are used locally have a significant impact on working in partnership with communities and patients. These levers and drivers include regulation, targets, outcomes measures, financial flows, annual contracting cycles, clinical standards, workforce training and revalidation etc.
This workshop will draw upon your experience and evidence to address two questions:
How these levers and drivers get in the way of working in partnership with patients and communities?
What is the best blend of approaches to support commissioners and providers locally to harness the energy of patients and communities
Assessing Capacity for Community Change Efforts: Learnings From an Adaptive I...Innovation Network
Should community change efforts be focused on funding coalitions or funding a flexible group of community leaders? The Kansas Health Foundation has embraced a four-pronged community change model that targets community leaders as key agents of change within each of their funded communities. Innovation Network, the evaluation partner for the Kansas Health Foundation's Healthy Communities Initiative, developed and deployed an assessment tool designed to contribute to the assessment of leadership capacity in effecting community change.
In this presentation at the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Kat Athanasaides and Veena Pankaj (Innovation Network) and Deanna Van Hersh (The Kansas Health Foundation) shared lessons learned about developing and deploying a capacity assessment tool. They also discussed what these tools can -- and cannot -- tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work.
Skills-Based Volunteerism as a Corporate Strategy - October 2013 VolunteerVolunteerMatch
Skills-Based Volunteerism (SBV) is becoming a key strategy that companies across the nation are using to deepen their engagement with communities while building the skills and talents of their employees. Join Common Impact and Fidelity Investments to learn how companies create, grow and evaluate skills-based volunteer programs that fit their culture, core business, and community strategies. Common Impact will share the different models companies can use to approach SBV, the barriers they face, and the tools and resources available to help overcome them. Common Impact’s long-time partner, Fidelity Investments, will share how SBV helps the company to achieve its community engagement goals. This webinar will help both companies and individuals unlock the power of strategic cross-sector partnerships and skills-based service in the areas where you live and work.
Danielle Holly
Executive Director, Common Impact
Danielle Holly serves as the Executive Director at Common Impact, an organization building stronger communities by facilitating collaborations between global companies and locally focused nonprofits. She works closely with Common Impact's corporate partners to develop strategic community partnerships, develop employees' talents, and help them to achieve both their business and community impact goals. Danielle is considered one of the leading experts on skills-based volunteerism and has helped numerous corporations and nonprofits navigate the new era in skills-based volunteering.
Laura (Hudson) Hamre
Senior Director, Community Relations, Fidelity Investments
A 7-year veteran of Fidelity Investments, Laura Hudson Hamre serves as Senior Director, Community Relations supporting 11 regions across the United States. Ms. Hamre crafts strategy in support of national community outreach efforts engaging employee volunteers. Her role also includes managing the firm’s relationship with HandsOn Network and overseeing the signature School Transformation Days.
Assessing the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Advocate for ChangeInnovation Network
Research has shown that high-capacity coalitions are more successful in effecting community change. While a number of coalition assessment tools have been developed, documentation is scarce regarding how they are implemented, how the results are used, and whether they are predictive of coalition success in collaborative community change efforts. Developed for a health promotion initiative of a major health foundation, this tool is designed to assess coalition progress in eight key areas across twelve different community coalitions, over the course of a three year initiative.
On May 21, 2013, Veena Pankaj, Kat Athanasiades, Ann Emery, and Johanna Morariu gave a presentation titled "Assessing the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Advocate for Change." The panel was hosted by the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.
The session focused on a coalition assessment tool that was designed by Innovation Network to assess changes in coalition capacity over time. Presenters shared lessons learned from the first year of the initiative about developing and deploying the assessment tool, as well as what these tools can--and can't--tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work. In addition presenters shared how information collected from this assessment can be communicated back to the coalitions using data visualization approaches to effectively communicate the data.
This is a comprehensive learning and development programme for providers to prepare them for personalisation and to help them make the necessary cultural and organisational changes. It will be run by an alliance of provider organisations and regional and national personalisation experts and administered by the Tyne & Wear Care Alliance.
Over the past decade, the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning has served as the research and evaluation partner in more than a dozen foundation-supported efforts to improve college access and success outcomes, not just within individual programs, but also at a community level. In this workshop, the presenters will: a) present lessons learned from these community-level efforts; and b) guide participants in using a systems lens to identify how and where they fit in their local college access and completion system.
This is a presentation that I gave to the Maine Bankers Association regarding what we are seeing in the Maine ecosystem and what we're building to support it.
Lee Bryant, ELearning Training Manager at City of Bristol College.
Presentation to Member's Corner at the JISC/ELESIG Digital Student Symposium, 26 March 2014.
Realising the Value Stakeholder Event -Workshop: How does the system support Nesta
Workshop D - How does the system support communities/individuals and how could it do it better?
The levers and drivers that national bodies put in place and how these are used locally have a significant impact on working in partnership with communities and patients. These levers and drivers include regulation, targets, outcomes measures, financial flows, annual contracting cycles, clinical standards, workforce training and revalidation etc.
This workshop will draw upon your experience and evidence to address two questions:
How these levers and drivers get in the way of working in partnership with patients and communities?
What is the best blend of approaches to support commissioners and providers locally to harness the energy of patients and communities
Assessing Capacity for Community Change Efforts: Learnings From an Adaptive I...Innovation Network
Should community change efforts be focused on funding coalitions or funding a flexible group of community leaders? The Kansas Health Foundation has embraced a four-pronged community change model that targets community leaders as key agents of change within each of their funded communities. Innovation Network, the evaluation partner for the Kansas Health Foundation's Healthy Communities Initiative, developed and deployed an assessment tool designed to contribute to the assessment of leadership capacity in effecting community change.
In this presentation at the American Evaluation Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Kat Athanasaides and Veena Pankaj (Innovation Network) and Deanna Van Hersh (The Kansas Health Foundation) shared lessons learned about developing and deploying a capacity assessment tool. They also discussed what these tools can -- and cannot -- tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work.
Skills-Based Volunteerism as a Corporate Strategy - October 2013 VolunteerVolunteerMatch
Skills-Based Volunteerism (SBV) is becoming a key strategy that companies across the nation are using to deepen their engagement with communities while building the skills and talents of their employees. Join Common Impact and Fidelity Investments to learn how companies create, grow and evaluate skills-based volunteer programs that fit their culture, core business, and community strategies. Common Impact will share the different models companies can use to approach SBV, the barriers they face, and the tools and resources available to help overcome them. Common Impact’s long-time partner, Fidelity Investments, will share how SBV helps the company to achieve its community engagement goals. This webinar will help both companies and individuals unlock the power of strategic cross-sector partnerships and skills-based service in the areas where you live and work.
Danielle Holly
Executive Director, Common Impact
Danielle Holly serves as the Executive Director at Common Impact, an organization building stronger communities by facilitating collaborations between global companies and locally focused nonprofits. She works closely with Common Impact's corporate partners to develop strategic community partnerships, develop employees' talents, and help them to achieve both their business and community impact goals. Danielle is considered one of the leading experts on skills-based volunteerism and has helped numerous corporations and nonprofits navigate the new era in skills-based volunteering.
Laura (Hudson) Hamre
Senior Director, Community Relations, Fidelity Investments
A 7-year veteran of Fidelity Investments, Laura Hudson Hamre serves as Senior Director, Community Relations supporting 11 regions across the United States. Ms. Hamre crafts strategy in support of national community outreach efforts engaging employee volunteers. Her role also includes managing the firm’s relationship with HandsOn Network and overseeing the signature School Transformation Days.
Assessing the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Advocate for ChangeInnovation Network
Research has shown that high-capacity coalitions are more successful in effecting community change. While a number of coalition assessment tools have been developed, documentation is scarce regarding how they are implemented, how the results are used, and whether they are predictive of coalition success in collaborative community change efforts. Developed for a health promotion initiative of a major health foundation, this tool is designed to assess coalition progress in eight key areas across twelve different community coalitions, over the course of a three year initiative.
On May 21, 2013, Veena Pankaj, Kat Athanasiades, Ann Emery, and Johanna Morariu gave a presentation titled "Assessing the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Advocate for Change." The panel was hosted by the Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.
The session focused on a coalition assessment tool that was designed by Innovation Network to assess changes in coalition capacity over time. Presenters shared lessons learned from the first year of the initiative about developing and deploying the assessment tool, as well as what these tools can--and can't--tell you about a coalition's capacity in conducting community change work. In addition presenters shared how information collected from this assessment can be communicated back to the coalitions using data visualization approaches to effectively communicate the data.
This is a comprehensive learning and development programme for providers to prepare them for personalisation and to help them make the necessary cultural and organisational changes. It will be run by an alliance of provider organisations and regional and national personalisation experts and administered by the Tyne & Wear Care Alliance.
Over the past decade, the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning has served as the research and evaluation partner in more than a dozen foundation-supported efforts to improve college access and success outcomes, not just within individual programs, but also at a community level. In this workshop, the presenters will: a) present lessons learned from these community-level efforts; and b) guide participants in using a systems lens to identify how and where they fit in their local college access and completion system.
This is a presentation that I gave to the Maine Bankers Association regarding what we are seeing in the Maine ecosystem and what we're building to support it.
Lee Bryant, ELearning Training Manager at City of Bristol College.
Presentation to Member's Corner at the JISC/ELESIG Digital Student Symposium, 26 March 2014.
Digital student - understanding students' expectations and experience of the ...ELESIGpresentations
Presentation from the JISC Digital Student project team: Helen Beetham, Dave White, Sarah Knight and Paul Bailey.
At ELESIG/JISC Digital Student Symposium, 26 March 2014
Water and sewage systems for future cities. Cases: New York and BangaloreHabitatNorway
Infrastructure 2013: Water
Presentation from the first 'Infrastructure 2013' evening seminar on access to clean water and water managment in growing cities. Seminar held in Oslo 20 March 2013.
Vann og avløpsløsninger i fremtidens byer. Case Bangalore/New York
Petter D Jenssen, Universitetet for Miljø og Biovitenskap (UMB)Association for International Water Studies)
Continuous research and development efforts have enabled Walter Surface Technologies to launch its new line of BIO-CIRCLE Environmental Solutions, which will provide companies with sustainable tools they can easily integrate into their surface treatment activities. We work hard developing the best products to help contribute to your success. MAKING GREEN WORK isn’t just a slogan for us, it’s in everything we do. From eliminating dangerous solvents from the workplace to adding natural environmental cleaners to our product line, we are continually looking for new ways to help you work better.
Walter Surface Technologies and BIO-CIRCLE Environmental Solutions have earned prestigious international awards and certifications including: The American Eagle Award, the Environmental Choice Program “Eco-Logo”, CleanTech’s Cleaning Technology Award, the Deutcher Material Effizienz Preiz, the Nord Rhein Westphalien (NRW) Effizienz Preiz and recognition by The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards amongst many others.
Learner and student experience in an age of austerity: how is the agenda set?ELESIGpresentations
Presentation from Prof. Chris Jones of Liverpool John Moores University, to ELESIG Symposium on Learner Analytics, 4 November 2013 at University of Liverpool. See more from this event at http://elesig.ning.com/profiles/blogs/elesig-learner-analytics-symposium-at-university-of-liverpool-4th
Effective practice in setting up and implementing staff-student partnerships:...Sarah Knight
Effective practice in setting up and implementing staff-student partnerships: lessons learnt from Change Agents Network presented at ALT-C on 8/09/14 by Sarah Knight and Peter Chatterton.
Identifying and driving change in partnership with students - Simon walker, M...Jisc
Jisc has supported the creation of a UK wide Change Agents Network to support staff and students working in partnership on technology enhanced curriculum change projects. The network provides a virtual and face-to-face forum for staff and students across the UK to share approaches/experiences and offer support. The network was created as it was identified that working in partnership increases the success of technology-led projects and delivers the identification of student need and appropriate action. Delegates will have an opportunity to hear examples of how institutions are working in partnership with students to identify and affect sustainable change. Students who have participated in the network will share their experiences and outline the benefits they have experienced in working in partnership with staff on curriculum change initiatives.
The network has worked with the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) to develop an award for staff and students working in partnership on change projects, the Institutional Change Leader award and this session will offer an insight into how colleges and universities are recognising and rewarding student participation in change projects. Participants will engage in discussion around this award and will be given access to the accreditation resources and materials, which they may wish to take to their own institution.
The network has also developed a guidance toolkit to support colleges and universities with implementing student partnerships, which has been developed from the collective resources of a range of Jisc, Higher Education Academy, QAA and institutional initiatives in this area. Delegates will participate in a group activity using these interactive materials so as to evaluate their use in supporting their own practice in taking forward student partnership working in their own institutions. Find out more about the Change Agents Network and follow it on Twitter (or #CAN2014)
Expanding the Help: Assessing the Effectiveness of Academic Mentors in Upperc...Tom Durkee
This Powerpoint was created to outline Nicole Cartier & Tom Durkee's assessment of the academic mentor program within Residence Life at Salem State University.
Growing a whole institution culture of commitment to student engagementJisc
As the student engagement agenda has gained momentum in UK higher and further education, there are numerous interesting and complex issues that arise and seemingly prevent a whole institutional commitment to working with students as partners.
Issues such as departmental autonomy, traditional hierarchies and power dynamics, and lack of time invested in innovative student engagement all contribute to a landscape where engaging students remains a project rather than a culture, and something done in a few departments rather than across a whole institution.
Find out more at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/growing-a-whole-institution-culture-of-commitment-to-student-engagement-20-jan-2016
Growing a whole institution culture of commitment to student engagement
Jisc Change Agents Network
1. SimonWalker, Mark Kerrigan, Brad Elliott, Peter Chatterton and Sarah Knight
Change Agents’ Network26/03/2014
#CAN2014 www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk
2. ‘Students as partners is not just a nice-to-have, I
believe it has the potential to help bring about
social and educational transformation, as long as
we know what we are trying to do and we maintain
a critical attitude about the ways the concept is
adopted and used.’
RachelWenstone,Vice President (Higher Education), NUS
– A Manifesto for Partnership (November 2012)
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3. Change Agents’ Network - @CANagogy #CAN2014
3
» http://www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk and join can@jiscmail.ac.uk by visiting
www.jiscmail.ac.uk
» Enhance student change agents’ understanding of effective practice and change
issues.
» Identify and share effective practice in the area of students/student groups as
change agents.
» Provide a forum for support and sharing of ideas with face to face events and
webinars.
» Create and link to resources to support staff and students promoting the use of
student change agents sector wide.
» Developing a framework to support possible accreditation through SEDA.
» Developing a Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change
4. Supporting staff and student partnerships
4
» A series of resources to support staff and students in instituting student
partnerships:
› Practice points
› Viewpoints for student partnerships
› Case studies
› List of benefits
› Useful links
› Educational agency initiatives
http://tiny.cc/can001
5. Good practice in
setting up student partnerships
should:
Is there a clearly identified rationale and case for student partnerships?
Which institutional policies and initiatives will student partnerships benefit?
Will student partnerships support employability skills and graduate attributes?
Establish the case for student partnerships
and align with strategies and policies
Jisc Guide to Instituting Student Partnerships
http://tiny.cc/can003
1-2
6. Establish the case for student partnerships
and align with strategies and policies
Jisc Guide to Instituting Student Partnerships
Based on the Viewpoints model: http://www.viewpoints.ulster.ac.uk
Identify drivers and needs for
students, staff, the institution and
others stakeholders such as
employers.
Identify potential benefits and impact
for students, staff, employers and the
institution.
Map the potential benefits and impact
to institutional strategies & policies
(e.g. relating to student experience,
employability, career planning, LT&A
enhancement)
Don’t be afraid to “think big”, though
ensure there is buy-in to a clear vision.
Engage stakeholders from across the
institution in establishing the case for
student partnerships.
Engage employers and professional
and sector bodies in establishing the
case for student partnerships.
Where possible, try to keep
partnership voluntary and focus on
recognition and rewards (e.g.
enhanced employability and potential
accreditation).
Establish cross-institutional
approaches to working
collaboratively.
Ensure issues and opportunities
identified in base-lining are
considered.
……………………………………………………
7. Find out more…
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ChangeAgents’ Network
s.knight@jisc.ac.uk peter.chatterton@daedalus-e-
world.com
M.J.P.Kerrigan@Greenwich.ac.uk
S.Walker@greenwich.ac.uk brad@hei-flyers.org
www.changeagentsnetwork.co.uk
#CAN2014 @CANagogy
can@jiscmail.ac.uk
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