Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?
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- Title
- Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?
- Abstract/Description
- Community service learning and community-based research necessitate the development of strong community-university partnerships. In this paper, students, faculty, and a community partner critically reflect upon the process of establishing a long-term community-university partnership through the integration of a community service learning component into a doctoral program in Community Psychology, thereby offering graduate students the opportunity to engage in long-term community-based research. This reflection reveals the importance of assessing university readiness at the pre-partnership stage, and of ensuring that academics and their institutions are not only willing, but also able, to engage in effective community research partnerships. The authors propose a practical framework for considering university readiness in the form of a series of questions that allows faculty, programs, or institutions considering partnership with a community group to reflect upon their own collaboration readiness. (Contains 1 table.)
- Date
- 2011
- In publication
- Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 15-26
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Reflection/Retrospective
- Language
- en
- Open access/full-text available
- en Yes
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- ISSN
- 1076-0180
- Other unique identifier
- Handle (2027/spo.3239521.0017.202)
- Citation
- Curwood, S. E., Munger, F., Mitchell, T., Mackeigan, M., & Farrar, A. (2011). Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready? Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 17(2), 15–26.
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