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This document discusses building institutional capacity for community engagement at universities. It provides examples of engaged scholarship programs from universities in Canada, the UK, and US. It also outlines challenges to engaged scholarship like differing knowledge cultures between universities and communities, issues of power and funding, and difficulties measuring impact. The document advocates for leadership support, new structures, changing reward systems, and data tracking to further institutionalize engaged scholarship.

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Building institutional capacity Third Annual University Engagement Showcase: University of alberta Thursday March 11, 2010 Budd L Hall, University of Victoria
Changing World
Henry Marshall Tory The modern state university is a peoples institution. The people demand that knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal Henry Marshall tory- 1908
Frontier College - 1899 Faculty of extension-University of alberta-1912 Antigonish movement-ST. Francis Xavier-1930s-40s Participatory research-OISE, University of Toronto-1970s Indigenous-centred research methods -70s/80s A canadian heritage
engagement rediscovered Community-University Research Alliance-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Harris Centre at memorial University, Newfoundland Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria Extension at U of A Leads Engaged Scholarship
International Expressions Community-University Partnership Project, University of Brighton Science Shop of Wales Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity Beacons of Public Engagement, UK
...the academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, and moral problems, and must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I call the scholarship of engagement. Ernest Boyer, 1996
Scholarly Engagement is the creation, integration, application and transmission of knowledge for the benefit of external audiences and the University and occurs in all areas of the University Mission: research, teaching and service. The quality and value of Scholarly Engagement is determined by academic peers and community partners University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2006)
Dimensions of Engaged Scholarship Community-Based Research Community Service Learning Continuing Education and Extension Cooperative Education Indigenous-Centred Research Performance and the arts Knowledge Mobilisation
Challenges getting buy-in across the full university different knowledge cultures between and University and community power differentials and Funding patterns Tracking contacts and results tenure and promotion measuring impact
Getting buy-in Leadership strategic planning new structures Listening to others changing reward structures
different knowledge cultures joint community-university leadership community-university engaged scholarship Institutes academic support for advocacy issues partnership agreements payment to community researchers
Funding patterns Advocacy for research funding to community researchers creating partnership development grants multiple funding packages 10 year partnerships
Data bases and tracking systems Beyond the Expertise Data-Base: Yaffle to the Rescue? tracking systems-trent university model? Public access to university data bases? Libraries rock!- university of victoria
recognizing excellence for tenure and promotion Support for portfolio development Broadening the concept of peers Leadership Visibility for those who succeed campus wide discussions Links to evolving practices elsewhere
measuring impact public access to facilities public access to knowledge student engagement faculty engagement widening participation encouraging economic regeneration institutional relationship and partnership building from Angie Hart, Simon Northmore and Chloe Gehardt
University of Victoria Steering Council on Civic Engagement Office of Community-Based Research Office of Cooperative Education Office of Indigenous Affairs Civic Engagement in our Strategic plan
National and Global Community-Based Research Canada Canadian Alliance for Community service learning global alliance for community engaged research Les Talloires global university networks for innovation
Now is the hour difficult economic times means we need to work together across community-government-university lines maturation of engaged scholarship as an academic field development of new facilitative structures in our universities recognition that knowledge is created in multiple locations
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Building Capacity for Engaged Research

  • 1. Building institutional capacity Third Annual University Engagement Showcase: University of alberta Thursday March 11, 2010 Budd L Hall, University of Victoria
  • 3. Henry Marshall Tory The modern state university is a peoples institution. The people demand that knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal Henry Marshall tory- 1908
  • 4. Frontier College - 1899 Faculty of extension-University of alberta-1912 Antigonish movement-ST. Francis Xavier-1930s-40s Participatory research-OISE, University of Toronto-1970s Indigenous-centred research methods -70s/80s A canadian heritage
  • 5. engagement rediscovered Community-University Research Alliance-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Harris Centre at memorial University, Newfoundland Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria Extension at U of A Leads Engaged Scholarship
  • 6. International Expressions Community-University Partnership Project, University of Brighton Science Shop of Wales Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity Beacons of Public Engagement, UK
  • 7. ...the academy must become a more vigorous partner in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, and moral problems, and must reaffirm its historic commitment to what I call the scholarship of engagement. Ernest Boyer, 1996
  • 8. Scholarly Engagement is the creation, integration, application and transmission of knowledge for the benefit of external audiences and the University and occurs in all areas of the University Mission: research, teaching and service. The quality and value of Scholarly Engagement is determined by academic peers and community partners University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2006)
  • 9. Dimensions of Engaged Scholarship Community-Based Research Community Service Learning Continuing Education and Extension Cooperative Education Indigenous-Centred Research Performance and the arts Knowledge Mobilisation
  • 10. Challenges getting buy-in across the full university different knowledge cultures between and University and community power differentials and Funding patterns Tracking contacts and results tenure and promotion measuring impact
  • 11. Getting buy-in Leadership strategic planning new structures Listening to others changing reward structures
  • 12. different knowledge cultures joint community-university leadership community-university engaged scholarship Institutes academic support for advocacy issues partnership agreements payment to community researchers
  • 13. Funding patterns Advocacy for research funding to community researchers creating partnership development grants multiple funding packages 10 year partnerships
  • 14. Data bases and tracking systems Beyond the Expertise Data-Base: Yaffle to the Rescue? tracking systems-trent university model? Public access to university data bases? Libraries rock!- university of victoria
  • 15. recognizing excellence for tenure and promotion Support for portfolio development Broadening the concept of peers Leadership Visibility for those who succeed campus wide discussions Links to evolving practices elsewhere
  • 16. measuring impact public access to facilities public access to knowledge student engagement faculty engagement widening participation encouraging economic regeneration institutional relationship and partnership building from Angie Hart, Simon Northmore and Chloe Gehardt
  • 17. University of Victoria Steering Council on Civic Engagement Office of Community-Based Research Office of Cooperative Education Office of Indigenous Affairs Civic Engagement in our Strategic plan
  • 18. National and Global Community-Based Research Canada Canadian Alliance for Community service learning global alliance for community engaged research Les Talloires global university networks for innovation
  • 19. Now is the hour difficult economic times means we need to work together across community-government-university lines maturation of engaged scholarship as an academic field development of new facilitative structures in our universities recognition that knowledge is created in multiple locations
  • 20. The world we want