Moving towards community Engagement

1. Moving towardscommunity Engagement Dr. Jean Cate, Quyen Arana & Dewey Hulsey

2. Community Engagement “The obstinate problems of today and tomorrow in our nation and world must be addressed by our universities if society is to have any chance at all of solving them.”Kellogg Commission

3. Overview

4. Carnegie Application-Self Study Transforming Universities Service Research Teaching Ivory Tower Three Pillars

5. Carnegie Application-Self Study

6. Carnegie Application-Self Study Creating active citizens that identify, analyze, and help solve problems in their local and global communities.

7. Carnegie Application-Self Study Carnegie Classification… Community Engagement describes the collaboration between higher education institutions and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2006

8. Carnegie Application-Self Study Defining Features of Engagement • Meaningful Partnership • Mutually beneficial outcomes • Addresses a community-identified need • Through an intellectual activity of importance • Reciprocity • Enhances community capacity • Enhances student learning and/or research • Participatory Exchange of Knowledge – • Co-creation • Deliverables for university and for community

9. Community Engagement in Mission Statement Community Engagement Survey

10. Partnership Grid Partnership Grid

11. Defining Features of OU Engagement • Meaningful partnerships • Mutually beneficial outcomes • Addresses a community-identified need • Through an intellectual activity of importance • Reciprocity • Enhances community capacity • Enhances student learning and/or research • Participatory Exchange of Knowledge – • Co-creation • Deliverables for university and for community

12. Carnegie Classification… Community Engagement describes the collaboration between higher education institutions and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2006

13. Faculty Activities In the Community

14. Service Outreach Engagement Degree of academic/intellectual influence and influence of partners

15. Motivators Faculty Institutional • Sponsored research funding • Scholarship and publication opportunities • Graduate student stipends • Enriched student learning • Scholarship applied to “real world” needs • Consulting opportunities • Prestige • Rankings • Increased and diversified revenue streams • Political goodwill • Public goodwill • Institutional reputation • Ability to attract top faculty and students • Distinctiveness

16. Core Cultural Interest: Knowledge Creation, Application & Accumulation

17. Engagement and OK Compact Engagement is a core element driving higher education quality and impact in the 21st Century. Engagement is relevant to every institution regardless of type; the level of relevance to discovery and learning varies according to mission, and community context. Each institution must articulate its engagement mission and link it to a coherent research and teaching agenda.

18. OU Community Engagement Committee • Hosted by Vice Provost for School and Community Partnerships and K20 Center • OU-Norman: • College of Fine Arts, Libraries for Public Services, College of Education, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Center for Leadership Development, VP for Strategic and Leadership Initiatives, Honors College, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Student Affairs , Program for Instructional Innovation, Michael F. Price College of Business, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, VISTA for Student Affairs & K20, College of Continuing Education, International Programs Center, College of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Fine Arts, College of Architecture, and University College • OU Health Sciences Center: • Associate Provost for Diversity and Community Partnerships and Associate Provost for Community Partnerships and Heath Policy • OU Tulsa • Vice President for Strategic Planning in Development and Director for Center for Outreach, Research and Education

19. Community Engagement Committee • Complete Carnegie Community Engagement report • Gather and share community engagement processes, activities, and examples across departments, colleges and campuses • Develop recommendations, including structures and databases, for advancing OU’s institutional commitment to community engagement

20. OU’s Community Engagement Framework • Collaborative and participatory • Draws on many sources of distributed knowledge; based on partnerships • Shaped by multiple perspectives and expectations • Deals with difficult, evolving questions • Long term in both effort and impact • Requires diverse strategies and approaches; crosses geographic and disciplinary lines

21. OU’s Community Engagement Portal OU Engage