Slides and recording will be posted online: aacu/webinar/student-success

2. Use Q&A for: Panel discussion Use Chat for: Technology support #aacuEngageCommunity Slides and recording will be posted online: www.aacu.org/webinar/student-success

3. Ashley Finley (Moderator)Senior Advisor to the President and Vice President for Strategic Planning and Partnerships, AAC&U finley@aacu.org

4. New Issue of Liberal Education Finley, Ashley, and Christen Aragoni, eds. 2019. “The Confounding Promise of Community: Why It Matters More Than Ever for Student Success.” Special issue, Liberal Education 105, no. 1. https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2019/winter AAC&U is pleased to share a promo code for 20 percent off the purchase price of this issue of Liberal Education. Your promo code is: WEBLEWI19.

5. What Is Confounding about Community?

6. Confounding Good Not So Good Retention/Graduation What is the community? Community engagement is hard. Community engagement is varied. Who gets to define or redefine membership? Learning Outcomes & Skill Development Quality of experiences is Inconsistent. What are the shared goals of participation? Career Development Community engagement cannot be assumed to be inclusive. What are the limitations of access and voice within community? Intrapersonal & Interpersonal Development

7. Webinar Presenters Marta Elena Esquilin Associate Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University-Newark Marta.Esquilin@rutgers.edu Peter LevineAssociate Dean, Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life Peter.levine@tufts.edu Jason LeggettAssistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice, Kingsborough Community College Jasonmleggettkbcc@gmail.com Geoffrey Buhl Professor, Mathematics and General Education Chair CSU, Channel Islands geoffrey.buhl@ csuci.edu Leeva Chung Professor, Communication Studies, University of San Diego leeva@SanDiego.edu

8. Poll 1: Who’s out there? • What is your primary role at your institution? • Response Options: • Faculty Member • Administrator • Director of Civic/Community Engagement Center • Student Affairs/Student Life Professional • Other (use chat box) • I wear so many hats, I have given up figuring out which one is “primary”

9. Poll 2: Why are you here? • What do you find confounding about the communities you engage with in your role? • Response Options: • Connecting to the institutional mission • Understanding impact • Connecting to campus equity initiatives/imperatives • Expanding participation • Aligning engagement with academic priorities • Communicating the value of engagement • Something else (use chat box)

10. Peter LevineAssociate Dean, Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life Peter.levine@tufts.edu

11. Another Time for Freedom? Lessons from the Civil Rights Era for Today's Campuses

12. Summer 1961

13. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Time for Freedom Has Come,” New York Times, September 10, 1961.

14. “On the Campus” “At the Counter” An institution: academic, devoted to learning A movement that targets institutions forchange

15. “On the Campus” “At the Counter” An institution: academic, devoted to learning A movement that targets institutions for change Some concern with impartiality and intellectual diversity Unified around a cause Care for the students (alma mater means “caring mother”) Demands sacrifice Science as “organized skepticism” Strengthens commitment Conserves institutional values Aims for radical transformation

16. “On the Campus”: Lessons for Us Today Free and critical discussion Culture of caring Concern for participants—and non-participants Appropriate responsiveness to demands Understanding the movement as a movement

17. Assessing movements as movements

18. Marta Elena Esquilin Associate Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University-Newark Marta.Esquilin@rutgers.edu

19. Cultivating Publicly Engaged Scholars “Rutgers University-Newark is Revolutionizing Honors and Leveraging Local Talent”

20. The HLLC has a broader vision of graduating innovative change makers to help solve local and global issues. “A liberal education should prepare critically thinking, engaged citizens to participate actively in our democracy, and honors colleges are positioned to cultivate some of the most promising scholars and leaders”

21. The HLLC is a place based initiative: “In Newark, of Newark.” In 2010, Newark had: the largest number of Latino (93,746) and Black (145,085) residents of any municipality in New Jersey. In 2015, only 16% of Newark residents who were 25 years of age or older had attained a bachelor’s degree or higher, in comparison to the statewide average of 38% (2011-2015 American Community Survey). There are staggering numbers of exceptionally talented, critically minded, and academically promising individuals who are experiencing real structural barriers to higher education.

22. HLLC Enrollment & Demographics Reflect Newark’s Diversity

23. HLLC: A model for student success and community engagement HLLC in the media: PBS NewsHour NY Times Diverse: Issues In Higher Education The Atlantic AAC&U Liberal Education HLLC incorporates: Residential living learning community Holistic admissions Culturally responsive pedagogy and community-engaged classrooms Comprehensive infrastructures for mentoring and support

24. Intensive Two-Phase Interview Process Phase 1: Large Group Interview Phase 2: Personal Interview Holistic Admissions Unlike traditional criteria utilized to measure success within a college environment, the HLLC seeks to: • Re-define merit • Relies heavily on both academic indicators and additional criteria to assess a student’s ability to thrive.

25. The HLLC has adopted a strength-based model for identifying and cultivating academic talent and potential 18 Credit curriculum: ”Local Citizenship in a Global World” Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Community Engaged Classrooms

26. Intergenerational Learning Communities & Mentoring • Peer & Faculty Mentoring • Identity & Academic Based Support • Career & Leadership Development Contact us: @RUN_HLLC https://hllc.newark.rutgers.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/HLLCRUN/ Tim.eatman@rutgers.edu (Dean) Marta.esquilin@rutgers.edu (Associate Dean)

27. Geoffrey Buhl Professor, Mathematics and General Education Chair CSU, Channel Islands geoffrey.buhl@csuci.edu

28. Creating a College-Going Community CSU Channel Islands works towards fulfilling its foundation responsibility of educating and transforming the Ventura county region

29. Engaging with the Community

30. Engaging with Community College Partners

31. Aligning to One Degree • One Degree – a philosophy the recognized and acknowledges the partnership between Channel Islands and Community college partners in awarding a bachelors degree • True Juniors –the goal of aligning curriculum regionally so that students have a clear curricular pathway at Community College that results in students needing to complete only 60 units of upper -division course work to complete their degree

32. K-16 Culturally Relevant Education

33. Leeva Chung Professor, Communication Studies, University of San Diego leeva@SanDiego.edu

34. The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious--- It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of art and science Einstein, 1931

35. Why Experiential Ed + Community Engagement Focus on the process orientation of learning Deeper impact and engagement ELM model of persuasion Motivates students at different levels Crosses the uncomfy gap between theory and practice

36. Theory to Practice/ AN ICEBERG METAPHOR surface level READ ABOUT IT, TALK ABOUT IT, GO ON WITH YOUR DAY mid level FIND MEANING AND CONNECTION; ARTICULATE PROBLEMATICS Think about your day deeper level Assumptions, interpretations & meanings: Changing our Values. Behavior. Game Changer

37. The HOW Establish clear goals Role model behavior Environment where students can willingly take “ownership” of their education. Encourage “why” and “how” questions Debrief!

38. community partnership outcomes #clearthefear #idtapthat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKKX6fvJiU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrTy9ZJjtc

39. Jason LeggettAssistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice, Kingsborough Community College Jasonmleggettkbcc@gmail.com

40. The Community in Technology: How Collaboration Drives Virtual Spaces“Today’s technologies are not the inventions of individuals or small groups; they are reflective of larger social processes that account for complex and diverse interests and needs.” By: Jason Leggett City University of New York Kingsborough Community College.

41. Community always creates technology but the construction is not always for the common good. Oldest Technology? Actor Network Theory

42. Higher Education can be more Mapping Migration Critical Digital Media Literacy Engineering labs

43. Digital Creations; Digital Captures Course Websites with Non-Disposable Assignments; Collaborative Labs of Democratic Action Research

44. Campus of Future: Critical Constructive Role Critical Dialogue Concern for Community Good Culturally Responsive Pedagogies Co-Constructive Diverse Knowledge Archive and Sharing of Work Across Disciplines

45. Use Q&A for: Panel discussion Use Chat for: Technology support #aacuEngageCommunity Slides and recording will be posted online: www.aacu.org/webinar/student-success

46. Thank You Webinar Presenters! Marta Elena Esquilin Associate Dean, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University-Newark Marta.Esquilin@rutgers.edu Peter LevineAssociate Dean, Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life Peter.levine@tufts.edu Jason LeggettAssistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice, Kingsborough Community College Jasonmleggettkbcc@gmail.com Geoffrey Buhl Professor, Mathematics and General Education Chair CSU, Channel Islands geoffrey.buhl@ csuci.edu Leeva Chung Professor, Communication Studies, University of San Diego leeva@SanDiego.edu

47. Forthcoming AAC&U Webinars