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Title
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Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?
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Abstract/Description
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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.)
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Date
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2011
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In publication
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Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
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Volume
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17
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Issue
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2
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Pages
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15-26
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Language
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en
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Open access/full-text available
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Yes
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Peer reviewed
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Yes
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ISSN
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1076-0180
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Citation
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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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